Almiron spent six years at St. James’ Park after joining from Atlanta United in 2019 before rejoining the MLS side earlier this year.

Eddie Howe is finalising his Wembley preparations with Newcastle United youngster Ben Parkinson in and around the first team

In the 1970s the Football Association used to hold an athletics invitational meet before the FA Cup final and in 1974 Sir Brendan Foster was the star attraction, running against European champion Juha Vaatainen in a black and white Shaftesbury Harriers vest he had borrowed from his friend Dave Bedford.