Old foes Newcastle United and Manchester United are set to renew their hostilities this weekend at Old Trafford.  The clubs will meet for the 154th time with Manchester United having a commanding 78-36-39 advantage in the all time record.  Newcastle's futility in the fixture is an idea that is on many peoples' lips this weekend, but for a slightly different reason.  The last time Newcastle defeated the Red Devils on their own pitch was February 12, 1972. . . Thirty-nine years ago.

A User's Guide to Things That Have Happened Since Newcastle United Last Won At Old Trafford

• The Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
• The World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the world.
• West Germany won the 1974 World Cup
• The film of The Who's Tommy is released.
• The Concorde entered service, cutting trans-atlantic flight time to 3.5 hours
• The world's first Apple IIe computers are released
• Jonestown occurred.
• Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime Minister.
• The Miracle on Ice happened.
• MTV was launched
• Vangelis was awesome.
• This happened.
• Band Aid was conceived and executed.
• This was amazingly awesome or amazingly unfortunate.  Or both.
• Halley's Comet came back... and went away again.
• Cherry Garcia was introduced to the world.
• "A Brief History Of Time" is published.
• The Berlin Wall came down.
• The Hubble Space Telescope was launched.
• Dinosaurs ruled the TV.  Briefly.
• Johnny Carson retired.
• Dinosaurs ruled the movies.
• Eurostar rail service is launched.
• Megan and Morag, the first cloned sheep, enter the world.
• Deep Blue defeats Gary Kasparov for the first time.
• Scotland established their own Parliament.
• Google is introduced.
• The Euro is introduced.
• Y2K was supposed to cause mass hysteria and random unexplained explosions.
• The World Trade Center was attacked.
• Brazil wins the World Cup.  Again.  And Ronaldo has a stupid haircut.
• The Concorde makes its last flight.
• SpaceShipOne becomes first privately owned craft to achieve space flight.
• XBox 360 is released to North America.
• The one billionth song is downloaded from iTunes.
• New Wembley stadium is completed.
• Fidel Castro steps down from power.
• The less said about 2009, the better.
• This was pretty good in 2010. . .