Newcastle United have returned to the Champions League for the first time since the 2002-2003 season. This year has been one of evolution for the Geordies under the guidance of Eddie Howe. They have their highest points tally since the 1995-1996 season under Kevin Keegan, 78 points then, they can reach 73 points. With this much progress in one and a half years, they are on the cusp of winning the league.

The last time they did it was in 1927. The King was George V, The BBC was incorporated on the 1st of January and the UK severed its diplomatic ties with the USSR. In football, Newcastle finally managed to win the league for the first time since 1909.  Let’s look back at the year Newcastle was last crowned champions of England.

Frank Watt is the only “manager” to have ever won the league for Newcastle. He won it four times in a span of 22 years as the secretary-manager of the club.

His final title was a monumental one because the task was to overcome the behemoth that was Huddersfield Town.

Huddersfield had been champions for the previous three seasons, the first club to win three in a row, with Terrier’s legend Herbert Chapman and Cecil Potter in charge.

Newcastle’s first two games were a mixed bag, they beat Aston Villa 4-0 for the first game but followed it with a 5-1 loss against Burnley.

They only won three of their first nine games culminating the poor run with a draw against Arsenal.

The Magpies turned it all around, they lost only three games in their next 17 matches, losing to Sunderland but beating the likes of Liverpool, Everton with Dixie Dean, and Blackburn Rovers 6-1.

The run propelled them ahead of their rivals, they beat Sunderland in the return fixture 1-0, and Huddersfield could only manage 17 wins and 17 draws throughout the season.

Newcastle would share 1-0 wins with Huddersfield both teams winning their home matches.

Newcastle would win the league with 56 points, their record for the season was 25 wins, six draws, and 11 losses.

They had an exemplary home record only dropping points twice at St James’ Park.

Their top scorer for the season was Hughie Gallacher, scoring 39 goals in all competitions.

Newcastle had a core of Scottish footballers including Gallacher, they had built a fantastic squad with players playing most of the decade for the Magpies, all reaching well over 100 appearances each.

In those days the big six did not have global fanbases or major commercial success.

Liverpool had won the league four times and Manchester United twice and all six had been up and down the top two divisions without any sustained period of success.

Liverpool finished highest in 9^th with 43 points level with Aston Villa and Arsenal, they had a better goal average than the other two clubs.

Liverpool had an excellent home record but lost most of their away games, although they completed the double over Manchester United.

Arsenal had a similar campaign, with big home wins against both Burnley and Sheffield Wednesday.

Unfortunately, it was the awful away performances that dragged the Gunners down. They lost 6-1 at Newcastle, 5-1 at Sunderland, and 7-0 at West Ham United.

Two points behind them was Tottenham Hotspur, who despite beating Arsenal at Highbury contrived to lose 4-0 at White Hart Lane against the Gunners.

The North London duo would finish 11^th and 13^th respectively. Manchester United finished 15^th with 40 points.

The Red Devils managed to stay clear of any relegation problems but never looked like climbing the table.

Their rivals Manchester City managed to miss out on promotion on goal average and finished third in the second division with 54 points.

City had been relegated the season before and was looking for an automatic return on the back of 108 goals scored.

Chelsea was only two points behind Manchester City narrowly missing out on promotion as well.

1927 was a fascinating year for football. It is the only year that a non-English team won the FA Cup.

Welsh club, Cardiff City beat Arsenal 1-0 to lift the trophy for the only time in their history. Hughie Ferguson scored the winner for the Bluebirds with 15 minutes to go.

The game is known for being the first time the Cup final anthem “Abide with Me” was played and the first time the BBC broadcast the Cup final live on the radio.

The two teams relegated from the top tier that season were Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion. Both teams finished on 30 points each with almost identical records, both managed 11 wins and eight draws.

The two teams to replace them, and as a consequence kept Manchester City and Chelsea in the second tier, were Middlesbrough and Portsmouth.

Middlesbrough romped to the second division title with 62 points beating City home and away in the process and scoring a whopping 122 goals.

Portsmouth on the other hand just about snuck in on goal average they got 1.776 as opposed to City’s 1.770.

A note on the top scorer in the First Division, Jimmy Trotter, he bagged 37 goals that season for Sheffield Wednesday which is still, for now, more than Erling Haaland this season.

He is quite a way off the next season’s record-setter Dixie Dean. The Everton striker would score 60 goals in the 1927-28 season.

In Europe, Nuremberg beat Hertha Berlin 2-0 in the German Championship final and Torino won the Italian national top division although it would later be revoked because of a match-fixing scandal.

In Scotland, Rangers won their 15^th league title beating Motherwell to the title by five points and Celtic finished third.

England’s season started in October with a British Home Championship fixture against Ireland.

The game played at Anfield finished 3-3 with goals by George “Bomber” Brown, Joe Spence, and Norman Bullock.

Their next game was another 3-3 draw away to Wales at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham.

Dixie Dean scored two goals in this game, the other scored by William Walker.

Dixie Dean would continue his fine form scoring a brace against Scotland at Hampden Park, getting the win for the Three Lions, and allowing England to share the title with their Scottish neighbours.

The Three Lions would then go on a tour of France and the Low Countries. Dixie Dean would continue his amazing goal-scoring record in 1927 as he scored a hat-trick against Belgium, in Brussels, in a 9-1 thumping of the Diables Rouges.

Dixie Dean tore Luxembourg to pieces in a 5-2 victory in Esch-sur-Alzette, scoring yet another hat-trick.

Finally, England beat France 6-0 in Paris, and Dixie Dean, who else, scored a brace. Dean would finish his England career with 18 goals in 16 matches, 12 of which were scored in those five games alone.