Newcastle return to Champions League action after 20 years on Tuesday, and BBC Sport has retraced the steps of their last historic campaign.
As Alan Shearer wheeled away, arm aloft in typical style, to celebrate yet another Newcastle United goal, something felt different.
"What a game," former defender Steven Caldwell tells BBC Sport. "The San Siro is the stadium you think of if you grew up watching Italia 90; it is the stadium of my generation."It was a proper football match; there was a lot on the line, high stakes, against a world-class team. For us to compete was so incredible, we were so close, right in it, it could have gone either way.
"The San Siro had an aura; it was an iconic, mythical place. Watching Newcastle play there was not on the horizon," Matthew Philpotts, writer for the True Faith Fanzine, says. "That squad was combustible. It wasn't the same kind of people; it was hard to keep everyone on track and Bobby did that excellently."
"It was crazy," Caldwell recalls. "It is not often you lose yourself and become like a fan. We were so engrossed in the game."
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