Newcastle United take on Everton at St James Park this weekend, with just one point separating the sides in the Premier League table.
The Magpies will be looking to complete a league double over Everton, having beaten The Toffees 4-1 on their first ever visit to the Hill Dickinson Stadium earlier in the season, in what many consider to be their best league performance this season.
As always, Anthony Gordon will play a prominent role against his former side, and the Liverpool-born forward is just one of many big names to have played for both clubs.
Ahead of Saturday’s game, we look at four more players who have represented Newcastle and Everton.
Paul Gascoigne
One of the greatest footballers of his generation, ‘Gazza’ learned his trade as a child, kicking a ball about on the streets of Dunston. With his natural talent evident from an early age, he was snapped up as a youth player for boyhood club Newcastle United in 1980, at just 13 years old. He made his first team debut in 1985, a few weeks before captaining Newcastle’s youth team to a 4-1 Youth FA Cup triumph over Watford.
The next season saw Gascoigne quickly establish himself as a regular starter in Newcastle’s midfield, with 35 appearances and 9 goals.
The Geordie midfielder would go on to represent the club 104 times, bagging 25 goals along the way, before joining Tottenham Hotspur in 1988 for a then British record fee of £2.2 million.
Despite winning an FA Cup with Spurs, earning a big move abroad to Lazio, and picking up a couple of Scottish Premier League titles with Rangers, Gazza is arguably best remembered on the field for his time with the England national side.
His performances (and tears) at Italia 90 captured the heart of the nation and ushered in ‘Gazzamania’.
Almost overnight, Gazza went from footballer to one of England’s biggest celebrities, appearing on talk shows and even venturing into the world of pop music, with his dance cover of Lindisfarne’s ‘Fog on the Tyne’ reaching number 2 in the UK Charts in 1990.
Six years later, at Euro 96, Gascoigne’s beautiful goal against Scotland and subsequent ‘dentist chair’ celebration became another tournament-defining moment.
He joined Everton in 2000, linking up with his former Rangers manager, Walter Smith, but injuries and well-documented mental health struggles meant his impact with The Toffees was limited.
Gazza made just 38 appearances across two seasons on Merseyside and scored one goal, but he may well be the only player in Everton history to be named after their most famous fan, Sir Paul McCartney.
Peter Beardsley
Maybe not so much nowadays, but for a long time, the Merseyside Derby was also known as the ‘friendly derby’. Fans of the two clubs would often sit side by side when Liverpool took on Everton, and it’s not uncommon for families in and around Liverpool to be divided by the city’s two clubs.
So when Peter Beardsley made the short trip across Stanley Park in 1991 to join Everton after four succesful seasons at Anfield, it wasn’t that big of a deal.
Unfortunately for The Toffees, even a talent like ‘Pedro’, with his quick feet and mazy runs, was unable to bring similar success to Goodison Park. Beardsley spent two seasons at Everton, with the highlight of his time with the Blues coming in December 1992, scoring the winner against his former club at Goodison Park, the first Merseyside Derby of the Premier League era.
Beardsley’s time on Merseyside was sandwiched between two spells with Newcastle United. He first joined the club at the start of the 1983-84 season, forming an effective attacking trident with Chris Waddle and Kevin Keegan, and going on to net 61 times in 164 appearances during his first spell at St James Park.
After seven years in Liverpool, Beardsley returned to his hometown club at the age of 33, playing under former teammate Kevin Keegan, and forming a prolific strike partnership with a young Andy Cole.
Even in the latter stages of his career, Beardsley was an integral part of Keegan’s famed ‘entertainers’ era, helping Newcastle qualify for the UEFA Cup, and coming within touching distance of being crowned champions of England in 1996. Beardsley hit 121 goals for The Magpies during his two spells, putting him sixth on the club’s all-time goalscoring charts.
Steve Watson
Long before Micah Richards, there was another young English defender ‘bursting onto the scene’.
North Shields lad Steve Watson was a mere 16 years, 7 months and 9 days old when he made his debut for Newcastle on the 10th November, 1990, and is still the club’s youngest ever player as of 2026.
A full-back by trade, Watson quickly became a first-team regular under new boss Kevin Keegan, cementing himself as first-choice right back, but being versatile enough to be deployed at centre back and in midfield. He was also partial to a spectacular somersault throw-in from time to time.
The arrival of Ruud Gullit in 1998, and competition from Warren Barton at right-back would eventually combine to force the Gerodie out of St James’ Park, as Watson joined Aston Villa in 1998.
Two years later, Watson was on the move again, swapping Villa Park for Goodison Park.
During his time at Everton, Watson was occasionally used as a midfielder and even a centre forward. He scored 16 goals during his five seasons at Goodison, with three of them coming against Leeds in September 2003. Not bad for a full-back.
Duncan Ferguson
Ferguson joined Newcastle from Everton in November 1998 for £8 million in a move that was seemingly news to everyone involved.
Toffees boss Walter Smith had no idea of the plan to sell Ferguson, and ‘Big Dunc’ was equally miffed, penning a two-page goodbye letter to the Everton faithful after his move to St James’ Park was completed. The Guardian reported at the time that one Alan Shearer had specifically asked the Newcastle board to sign the 6ft 4 striker, even having to convince then-manager Ruud Gullit to sign Ferguson.
While Ferguson may have been gutted to leave Everton, it didn’t show on his Newcastle debut, as he netted twice against Wimbledon in a 3-1.
But any hopes of a Shearer-Ferguson strike partnership were soon dashed.
In true Newcastle fashion, Shearer was injured when Ferguson joined the club, but as soon as he returned to the squad, it was Ferguson who found himself on the sidelines for four months with a hernia injury.
By the time Ferguson returned to action in April 1999, the pair had started just two games together.
The following season saw both Ferguson and Shearer inexplicably benched for the Tyne-Wear derby at St James’ Park, which the Magpies ultimately lost 2-1. The defeat would ultimately cost Ruud Gullit his job in the Newcastle dugout, and the tale of Big Al barging into Gullit’s office the next morning, only to find Big Dunc already in there, has passed into Geordie folklore.
Ferguson’s finest moment in black and white came in March 2000, with his stunning strike opening the scoring in a 3-0 home win against Manchester United.
But just a few months later, he was gone. Ferguson rejoined Everton in the summer of 2000 for £3.75 million, less than two years after leaving Goodison Park.
