“Black and white bedlam.”
There is every chance that the words spoken by the Sky Sports-Co-Commentator Gary Neville when Newcastle United took the lead in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, when the magazine ended their decades of trophy drought.
Newcastle saw less from the ball against former owner Liverpool in the Wembley Stadium, dominated the game in the capital and created far more than her famous opposition.
The damage was set up in the short side of the half, with the Newcastle fan of boys’ books Dan Burn – published by the club at the age of 11, but after a career that was mainly founded in the championship and in the first division, which was put in the leadership shortly before the interval.
Alexander Isak, a player identified by Liverpool as a potential upgrade to Darwin Nunez on the transfer market, added the second seven minutes after the restart in Newcastle.
Federico Chiesa’s stop -time strike, subject to a lengthy and painfully tense VAR test, which has set up a grandstand finish and the nerves of the Newcastle fans were crushed everywhere, but the magpies recorded.
The red, which were expelled from the Champions League just a few days earlier, after they had been exceeded by Paris Saint-Germain over two legs. This is the first real crisis for Arne Slot since Jürgen Klopp’s successor last May, although his team is still 12 points at the head of the Premier League with less than ten games.
Newcastle has been waiting for a large trophy since 1969 and won the Inter-Cities Fair Cup-a predecessor of the modern UEFA Cup/Europa League. Her last large domestic trophy was even longer in 1955 when the club -like Jackie Milburn was at the end of his career.
The Magpies were qualified for several occasions and lost the FA Cup’s FA Cup in 1976 and 2023 in 1974, 1998 and 1999 and took second place in the Premier League in 1996 and 1997.
But Eddie Howe, who was bitterly disappointed to Manchester United in this final two years ago, succeeded where Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish and the late Sir Bobby Robson failed in the past.