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Article: Football: RUUD AWAKENING; BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE Big Sam bags point after fearing same fate as Gullit Sunderland 1 Newcastle 1.(Sport)
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- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2007
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Byline: The DAVE KIDD report
SAM ALLARDYCE admitted defeat would have been unthinkable in this northeast derby - and revealed that the ghost of Ruud Gullit had been haunting him in the build-up.
As his ambitious billionaire owner Mike Ashley joined a restless Toon Army in the away end, Big Sam was staring down the barrel at a defeat which would have spelt crisis at Newcastle - until James Milner's fluke equaliser rescued an unlikely point.
The Newcastle manager let slip that he had been wrestling with images of Gullit being bundled out of St James' ...