EXCLUSIVELegendary Newcastle striker Malcolm 'Supermac' Macdonald shares an afternoon of tales and ales with CRAIG HOPE - and remembers the last time the Magpies faced Liverpool at Wembley

It was in 1975 that Malcolm Macdonald ran 100 metres in 10.9 seconds. ‘It’s 10 metres in 100 seconds these days,’ we laugh, shuffling back to his North Tyneside home after a four-hour pub lunch.

Back and hip operations await. The VAT of being a footballer, he calls it. He could have been an Olympic sprinter.

‘After I ran that time on Superstars (1970s TV show), the athletics coach Ron Pickering said he could get me below 10.5 seconds, but I’d have to give up football,’ says Macdonald.

Not fancy it?

‘Goals beat golds,’ he says.