It was also the biggest victory home or away under the management of Brendan Rodgers. Can you name his starting XI and the subs that came on without looking? And even if you can, do you know what they’ve all been up to in the decade that has followed? We’ve got all the answers…

PEPE REINA

Pepe Reina was 30 at the time of this 6-0 success and in his eighth and final season as a Liverpool FC player. In fact, this was the final clean sheet he kept for the Reds in an away match with his final tally of 177 shut-outs in 394 games the third best in LFC history. The Spanish goalkeeper spent the 2013/14 campaign on loan at SSC Napoli and won the Coppa Italia before spending a year with FC Bayern Munich. He returned to Naples, having three seasons as their No.1, and in 2018 signed for AC Milan. Reina was loaned to Aston Villa FC in 2019/20 and played against Liverpool FC at Anfield in our Premier League title-winning season, albeit behind closed doors due to the pandemic. He subsequently joined SS Lazio and last summer, a month before his 40th birthday, Reina returned to Villarreal CF - the club the Reds’ signed him from in 2005 - where he is currently first-choice goalkeeper.

GLEN JOHNSON

This was the fourth of right-back Glen Johnson’s six seasons as a Red and the only one in which he made over 40 appearances, playing 200 times for Liverpool FC in total. Two years later he left Anfield to sign a two-year deal with Stoke City FC where a knee injury ended his first season prematurely. Johnson ended up staying at the Bet365 Stadium for an extra year, but 2017/18 proved to be a poor campaign for the Potters and when they were relegated from the Premier League he was released. In January 2019, he announced his retirement aged 34. Glen is now the CEO of Johnsons Real Estate, a London-based property development company he set up with his brother Lewis in 2007. “His uncompromising eye for detail and demand for quality craftsmanship has led him to become an established landlord and property developer,” says the company website. “His charismatic personality has seen him broker and navigate the company through even the most complex deals.”

JOSE ENRIQUE

The 6-0 win was particularly sweet for ex-Newcastle United FC left-back Jose Enrique who had ended up in goal against his former club at St James’ Park 12 months earlier after Pepe Reina was sent off with all substitutes already used. A regular in his first two seasons as a Red, the Spaniard was a squad player from season 2013/14 onwards and made three appearances under Jürgen Klopp before returning to Spain to play for Real Zaragoza in 2016. In September 2017 he was forced to retire aged 31 due to a persistent knee injury and eight months later was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour called chordoma that threatened his eyesight. Thankfully, after successful surgery, Enrique was given the all-clear and is now a social media pundit with almost 1.5 million followers across his Instagram and Twitter accounts on which he provides daily LFC news updates and transfer speculation.

JAMIE CARRAGHER

Jamie Carragher made 24 of his 737 appearances for Liverpool FC against the Magpies and as a bit of a statto will probably have known this 6-0 win was Newcastle United FC’s heaviest home defeat at St James’ Park since 1925. At the age of 35, Carra cruised through this game at centre-half, but would only play for the Redmen on three further occasions before hanging up his boots three weeks later. Carragher took his coaching badges, but instead joined Sky Sports as a pundit and commentator where his on-screen jousting with Gary Neville and Roy Keane has become almost as high-profile as some of the matches they cover. Still Liverpool-based, he is also a pundit for CBS Sports on UEFA Champions League nights, helps to give local kids on Merseyside opportunities through his 23 Foundation and his son James plays for Wigan Athletic FC.

DANIEL AGGER

The scorer of Liverpool FC’s opening goal - a third-minute header from Stewart Downing’s cross after staying forward for a corner - centre-back Daniel Agger played in 35 of LFC’s 38 Premier League matches in 2012/13. Had injury not intervened so often during his eight-and-a-half seasons as a Red he’d have made a lot more than 232 appearances for the Club. The Danish international returned to Brøndby IF - the club he arrived from aged 21 in January 2006 - in 2014, but was forced to retire through injury aged 31 in 2016. He had already invested in his brother’s KloAgger sewage company, which was sold in 2019, and in retirement moved to Marbella with his family. A qualified tattooist who has YNWA inked on the knuckles of his right hand, Daniel also invested in a social media platform for tattoo inspiration, set up the Agger Foundation and since 2021 has managed Danish First Division Club HB Køge.

LUCAS LEIVA

Only seven players have made more Premier League appearances for Liverpool FC than Lucas Leiva (247) and this was the biggest away win he was involved in, although he also captained the Reds to a 6-1 League Cup win at Southampton FC in 2016. The Brazilian defensive midfielder, who also spent a spell at centre-back under Jürgen Klopp, scored one of his seven LFC goals against the Geordies, although not in this game. After a decade on Merseyside he moved to Italy to play for SS Lazio where won the Coppa Italia in 2019 and made just shy of 200 appearances. Lucas returned to Brazil to play for former club Grêmio in 2022, but last month announced his immediate retirement aged 36 after a heart issue was detected during pre-season tests. “I’m spending time with my family, taking my kids to school, being close to my family, to my parents,” he told liverpoolfc.com. “I am also speaking with Grêmio to see if I will stay in a role inside the club. For sure I will stay in football.”

STEVEN GERRARD

If you saw the Liverpool FC Legends match against Celtic FC last month then you’ll know that at the age of 42, Steven Gerrard is still scoring goals at Anfield! He officially retired from playing in 2016 after two seasons with LA Galaxy, but still looks like he could put a shift in for the Reds now on the evidence of the Legends games. No player has captained Liverpool FC more often - Stevie G wore the armband in 472 of his 710 appearances - and he is also one of LFC’s European Cup winning skippers. A total of 186 goals and 145 assists wasn’t bad either for one of our greatest players of all time. Gerrard coached at the Liverpool FC Academy from January 2017 and managed the U18s in season 2017/18 before being appointed as a manager of Rangers FC. He led the Gers to the Scottish Premiership title in 2021 without losing a game and moved on to Aston Villa FC in November of that year, but was sacked in October 2022 after a poor start to the season. He’s now a BT Sport pundit.

JORDAN HENDERSON

When Jordan Henderson eventually retires don’t be surprised if he ranks this match as one of his favourites as for a Sunderland-born ex-Sunderland AFC player to score twice in a 6-0 win against Newcastle United FC at St James’ Park is quite something. Hendo got Liverpool FC’s second goal when Philippe Coutinho played Daniel Sturridge through and he squared it for our No.14 to slot home. He also completed the 6-0 rout with a free-kick that he curled into the box and everybody missed before it ended up in the back of the net. Now in his 12th season at Anfield and closing in on 500 appearances, Hendo succeeded Steven Gerrard as captain and has spent much of the Jürgen Klopp era shuffling his feet on podiums before lifting seven different trophies. He was FWA Footballer of the Year in 2020.

PHILIPPE COUTINHO

The little Brazilian magician was a 20-year-old making just his 10th appearance for Liverpool FC following a January transfer from Internazionale and turned in a man-of-the-match display. He hit the crossbar and was involved in four of the Reds’ goals with the sixth coming from a free-kick after Mathieu Debuchy was sent off for fouling him. Coutinho shrugged off Hatem Ben Arfa to play Daniel Sturridge in for Liverpool FC’s third goal and that was one of 43 assists the midfielder contributed in a 201-game LFC career that also included 45 goals. His departure to FC Barcelona in January 2018 didn’t go down well with the Anfield faithful, but the world-record transfer fee Liverpool FC received was reinvested in Virgil van Dijk and Alisson - so it worked out okay in the end. Coutinho was in the Barca side beaten 4-0 in the UEFA Champions League semi-final at Anfield in 2019 and the following season was part of the FC Bayern Munich team that succeeded the Reds as European champions. Signed by Steven Gerrard for Aston Villa FC in January 2022, he remains at Villa Park.

STEWART DOWNING

Middlesbrough-born winger Stewart Downing got nine assists during his 91-game Liverpool FC career, but this 6-0 win was the only match in which he greeted two goals. The first was a cross for Daniel Agger to head home and the second a 74th minute pull-back, after beating his man, for substitute Fabio Borini to score with. Man-of-the-match in the Reds’ 2012 League Cup final win at Wembley, Downing was 28 at the time of this game and after leaving LFC the following month continued to play for another eight seasons. He had two years at West Ham United FC before returning to former club Middlesbrough FC and helping them to win promotion to the Premier League in 2016. Boro were relegated in 2017, but he remained at the Riverside Stadium until 2019 and spent the final two years of his career at Blackburn Rovers FC. An occasional LFCTV pundit, Downing took his coaching badges and has worked with Middlesbrough FC U16s on a part-time basis for the last six months.

DANIEL STURRIDGE

Had Luis Suarez not been suspended for an incident involving Chelsea FC’s Branislav Ivanović in Liverpool FC’s previous match then Daniel Sturridge would probably have started on the bench at Newcastle United FC. He was brought into the team by manager Brendan Rodgers and responded with two goals and an assist. After teeing up Jordan Henderson to make it 2-0 he slotted home Philippe Countinho’s pass for the Reds’ third and celebrated with his trademark wriggly-arm dance. Sturridge made it 4-0 on the hour mark when Henderson won possession, exchanged passes with Steven Gerrard and left the ex-Chelsea FC striker with a tap-in for his eighth of 67 goals for LFC. ‘Studge’ left Anfield in 2019 after winning the UEFA Champions League in Madrid, his appearance tally of 160 restricted by injury. He moved to Turkey to play for Trabzonspor and had a spell in Australia with Perth Glory FC that ended in June 2022. While the 33-year-old has yet to announce his retirement, he hasn’t played for a club this season but has been a Sky Sports’ pundit.

SUBS

FABIO BORINI

Italian striker Fabio Borini was Brendan Rodgers’ first signing as Liverpool FC manager in 2012, but hadn't scored a Premier League goal until coming on for Steven Gerrard to make it 5-0 with the outside of his right boot in the 74th minute. It proved to be one of only three goals he netted in 38 games for the Redmen and Borini spent the 2013/14 campaign on loan at Sunderland AFC before completing a permanent move to Wearside. He joined AC Milan, initially on loan, in 2018 and spent a year at Hellas Verona FC before a switch to Turkish club Fatih Karagümrük SK - who play at the Atatürk Stadium - in December 2020. Fabio has scored 33 goals for Karagümrük, including 18 this season.

JONJO SHELVEY

On as a substitute for Daniel Sturridge in the 85th minute, Jonjo Shelvey was another who left Liverpool FC at the end of the season. The central midfielder scored seven goals in 69 appearances during a three-season stint at Anfield before signing for Swansea City FC. After two-and-a-half seasons in South Wales he headed to St James’ Park in January 2016 and spent seven years at Newcastle United FC, making over 200 appearances and helping the Toon Army win The Championship in 2017. Shelvey is now at Nottingham Forest FC following a move to the City Ground in January 2023.

SUSO

Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáez de la Torre - known as Suso - was brought on for Philippe Coutinho in the 85th minute and almost made it 7-0 in stoppage-time only for Rob Elliot to make a save to stop Alan Pardew’s men suffering a heavier defeat. The creative Spanish midfielder made 20 of his 21 LFC appearances in season 2012/13 and after a loan spell at UD Almería signed for AC Milan in 2015. Suso remained at the San Siro until 2020 when he was loaned to Sevilla FC before completing a permanent transfer. Now aged 29, he came on to make his 113th appearance for the Andalusians in their 3-0 win against Manchester United FC in the Europa League on 20th April.