Saw a toon shirt with "Macdonald, 9" on the back.
Maximum respect!
Sadly I'm old enough to have watched SuperMac from the Leazes End. At his best he was magnificent, with frightening speed
He was in an early series of Superstars in 1975 and ran 100m in 10.9 seconds, without spikes on a cinder track.
Gordon Lee...so much to answer for...Bastard!
Super Mac was awesome, 5 goals for England against Cypris once. Got sold to the Arse for 333,333.33. Jackie Milburn was another hero that score goals for fun wearing the the Newcastle kit. Was he a number 9 or a number 10? I think it may have been a 9 but toon fans will easily correct me. Those were the days, when men were men and got up after a tackle instead of pretending to have been shot with a 50 cal round.
Wor Jackie was initially a winger and then switched to centre-forward, so he was wearing the No 9 shirt by default.
Before SuperMac we had Wyn Davies who was a more traditional centre-forward of the times
From my time as a fan of the 70s we had John McNamee as the de rigueur hacker, with back-up from Frank Clark
We had some good inside forwards (number 10) in John Tudor and Alan Gowling,who was a Manc reject
Never forgetting our magical midfield players of those days, Jinky Jim Smith and Tony Green