There weren't too many Premier League characters like Faustino Asprilla.
The Colombian striker, who celebrated his birthday last week, became something of a cult hero on Tyneside in the later 1990s despite only spending two years at St James Park, arriving from Parma for £6.7million.
And he'll always hold a special place in Toon hearts thanks to his hat-trick against Barcelona. However, his team-mates might remembered him other reasons - including his X-rated stunts in the dressing room.
Following a training session at Durham's Maiden Castle, Newcastle's players were waiting for manager Kevin Keegan and his assistant Terry McDermott to join them on the team bus - and Asprilla saw it as the chance to play a prank on his team-mates.
Former Newcastle defender Steve Howey told Under The Cosh : "Tino just thought it was a good idea for the lads as entertainment to stick one of his videos on.
"The week before, he put some music on and it was this Latino Colombian stuff and Shearer went down the bus when we were travelling down the A19, ejected it and turned round and went, 'Asprilla, s***!' He opened up a latch and winged it down the A19. So Timo just thought, 'I'll spice it up a little bit'.
"So he brought this video and Ken the driver put it on. We were all set, we were waiting for Terry Mac and the gaffer. Can you remember the videos when they used to put them in, it would go fuzzy and then the picture would come up.
"Anyway, we were battering Timo - 'What the hell his this? Get this s*** off!' and it had even started. And he goes, 'No, you must watch'.
"The camera just focused on these high heel shoes. It panned out and then you see these long legs, stockings and all this silk underwear, a silk dressing gown. We were looking at each other, thinking, 'No, surely not'. We've identified it straight away.
"Of course there is this dodgy music getting played and it was in this magnificent villa, marbled floors and all this kind go thing, she's looking out, and she's comes out - an absolutely stunning woman.
"And you just hear a knock on the door. She walks across the marbled floor - high heels shoes on, stockings, all the gear, and opens the door.
"There's a geezer standing there. He's got this big bushy beard, white t-shirt on, jeans with big buckle belt with all these tools and stuff. We were thinking, 'What's going on here?' And literally, before you know it, these two are getting right into it and she is screaming the place down.
"So this woman is screaming the place down because this bloke is going for it hell for leather and you can see the husbands, the boyfriends, the wives, the girlfriends, the kids - the husbands are trying to move the wives and kids out of the way by trying to look, thinking, 'What on Earth are Newcastle players looking at pre-match before they go down?'
"It was a full-on adult movie! So Kevin and Terry Mac come up and all they can hear is this woman screaming and he's going, 'What's this? Get this off!'
"It was on like four TVs! Everyone was thinking, 'Bloody hell, what are they watching?' This woman screaming.
"Anyway, Kevin is just about to eject this when Timo comes running down the bus saying, 'No, no, no. You must keep this on - this is my new missus!' It was his new girlfriend and that was his way of introducing the lads to her!"
He also hired an adult star to his 50th birthday, once he had hung up his boots.
Esperanza Gomez was invited to "blow out his candle" for the celebrations after flirting with her on social media.
The conversation started when Gomez posted a video of herself playing with a cockerel in a garden. "I'm waiting for you and your cockerel here so he plays with Lagrimon. I hope he doesn't pluck him," he said.
"While you're at it, you can accompany me to blow out the candle as I'm turning 50 this year."
