The former Newcastle star was in the dressing room when Alan Shearer and Duncan Ferguson discovered they were dropped in 1999 by Ruud Gullit. In a game that was played in monsoon conditions, Sunderland triumphed 2-1 as Niall Quinn and Kevin Phillips broke Geordie hearts at St James' Park. Solano said: "If I didn't know much about the rivalry between Newcastle and Sunderland before, I did after that night. "Shearer discovered Ferguson had got their first and pretty much taken the hinges off the closed door. "It made me understand exactly what this game meant.
