Headed goal at St James’ one of Quinn’s best Sunderland moments
were getting to the Champions League and we were knocking on the door of different things and we had the golden boot winner in Kevin Phillips.
“It was a great time for the North East.
"But that one day when I scored a header against Newcastle is the best moment of it all."
“We made an audacious bid to try and lure Louis van Gaal to Sunderland in my time as chairman.
"I don't know if anybody knows about it but he did speak to us, his wife spoke to us and he was just in between jobs.
"Everything was looking nice but he kind of got a bigger offer.
“I was dreaming a little bit but he was really good with us. He spoke to us, his wife spoke to us another time.
"We were just giving him the details of what the project will look like and it was one to one, really good, but unfortunately, he had bigger fish to fry."
“I got substituted against Manchester United at Old Trafford with about 20 minutes to go.
“Eric Cantona picked the ball up and waltzed through about three of our players, chipped the goalkeeper Lionel Perez, and famously turned round to take the adulation from the Old Trafford faithful, he put his collar up if you remember and struck that pose.
“When he scored, our kitman John Cooke, he's a Manchester United fan born and bred.
“As soon as Cantona scored, he jumps up and sticks his hand up in the air.
“Everyone looked at him and he just went, 'offside ref!' Everyone was giggling but Peter Reid was going to kill him.”