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The overriding feeling I found in the ground was "what do we do now?". We knew the pre made plans before the game, go to Covent Garden, enjoy the build up to the match. Some people had hope and blind optimism but I'm not convinced many thought we'd actually do it which made the spontaneous celebrations so much more better. If we'd have been playing Spurs or another club not as good as Liverpool the celebrations may have been able to be a bit more pre-planned if we felt we had a chance of winning it before the game. I don't know if other clubs sing it when they win the cup but the spontaneity of "Don't you know pump it up, Newcastle's won the cup" blaring around one half of Wembley will stay with me forever

I'm getting flashbacks to one of the forum's greatest ever threads here https://newcastle-online.org/topic/28272-ladsneed-your-help/

Feel like Laurent Robert should be in one of the teams but I couldn't leave out any of the attackers you've mentioned Think I'd still have Given over Pope

Not that I'm arsed about celebration police but I thought the non-Spurs fan here summed this up really well

There's a discussion to be had regarding our Saudi ownership and it's involvement in football But the way they constantly talk about how we've got blood on our hands and comfodrt themselves with that when their morals were nowhere to be seen when they had a fascist in charge beating us at SJP or a known paedophile playing for them 99 percent of them would snap your hands off if you offered them Adam Johnson to score the winner against 'the mags' next weekend

Really enjoyed Michael Walker's article about watching it in the city centre https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6209182/2025/03/17/newcastle-carabao-cup-supporters-city-centre-blyth/

Can't see Delap coming here to be second choice

He did one of his raking passes to Tino in the first half which looked incredible in the stadium Haven't seen it back yet but it was beautiful

Surely they'll be back from international duty by the 29th? If we hadn't lost to Brighton we'd have had a game that day

What a sliding doors moment this turned out to be

Anyone for some bitterness from Barry Glendenning? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/mar/17/newcastle-liverpool-league-cup-final-football-daily-newsletter

We needed the loss 2 years ago to appreciate how incredible this current feeling is

Felt like slow motion in the ground

All the kiosks were selling them outside the ground I found the whole Wembley experience much better this time than 2 years ago (result helped obv) but the tubes in and out were great and not packed and found the atmosphere outside the ground before the match better

CL final next year is in Budapest Europa League final in Istanbul Europa Conference final in Leipzig Get your planes booked lads

Just over a year since he got jeered off at home to Luton

No idea if they showed it on the telly but I loved our scarf waving when YNWA was being played before the match

7th time lucky for my dad at Wembley. Both in tears at the end

Thought he was fucking shite and gave them everything Howay the fucking lads

Best day of my life

I've not even considered the possibility we might win it

Just a load of litter on the street but at least Trafalgar Square is away from shops, Covent Garden is full of shops and markets. Hope it all stays good natured which I'm sure it will