The Magpies will hope to move one step closer to ending a 55-year trophy drought with a win in the first leg at Emirates Stadium - with the 1969 European Fairs Cup their last major honour.

Appropriately they assembled in the Moncur Suite, named after Captain Marvel who led them to triumph in the European Fairs Cup of 1969 not only as skipper lifting the tulip shaped cup into the ...

It involved the sides who made up the top eight of the Football League First Division the season before, with the final taking place at Villa Park in October 1988 – the birthplace of league football ...