article_snippet.sent: Ruud Gullit controversially decided not to start star players Duncan Ferguson and Alan Shearer in 1999 .
article_snippet.sent: Gullit's selection gambit did not pay off and Newcastle ended up losing 2-1 to Sunderland at St James' Park . '
article_snippet.sent: We actually went 1-0 up but Gullit's selection gambit turned Newcastle around and then the heavens opened.
article_snippet.sent: The following morning Shearer went to see Gullit, only Ferguson had beaten Shearer to only Ferguson, knocking the door off the hinges, legend has the door.