article_snippet: They got They wish in the end when Sunderland returned to the club in the summer of 2013.
article_snippet: Further back in time, Howard Kendall twice returned to Everton in an attempt to recreate Sunderland successful period at Goodison Park, where Sunderland won two league titles, the European Cup Winners’ Cup and the FA Cup.
article_snippet: It was the same at Newcastle United, where Alan Shearer had scored 148 goals in the Barclays Premier League for Alan Shearer boyhood club; Kevin Keegan also returned to St James’ Park for a short stint in 2008.
article_snippet: Surprisingly they were beaten 5-2 on aggregate in the Barclays Premier League by Club Brugge, knocked out of the competition before they had reached the quarter-final.
article_snippet: Alan Shearer (right) didn't have much to celebrate when Alan Shearer (right) took over Newcastle after starring as a player .
article_snippet: Howard Kendall (left), celebrating with Paul Bracewell after Everton sealed the First Division title in 1985, was in charge from 1981 until 1987 and returned to Goodison Park in 1990 and again in 1997 .
article_snippet: They finished the season in 13th, a respectable position for a team that had only just been promoted from the Championship under Bilic’s’s leadership.
article_snippet: Hammers old boy Jermain Defoe was kept quiet by Bilic’s's men at Upton Park .