It brought me closure, contentment, euphoria and my first drink in nearly 30 years | OneFootball

My Aston Villa supporting mate asked me how does it feel, now that Newcastle United have won something?

Well, over the past few days, like all of us, I have tried to come to terms with the events of Sunday.

There are so many connections in my memories to be made, so many doors to be closed, wishes to be ticked off.

As one person said; “A bookend to be placed at the other end of 1974.”

I have watched the full game every day since Sunday.

I’ve woke up smiling, dreaming of how Saturday 29th March will feel like.

So many years, so many tears and…so many tantrums.

It is a form of madness isn’t it.

Newcastle United have made me like this.

However, Sunday was different for me.

It wasn’t just about the trophy, it was about beating “them.”

For over 50 years that lot have haunted our club way more than any other, including those that have pipped us for the title or beaten us at Wembley even.

One of my earliest childhood memories is having to play in the sandpit outside, as my dad was angry at the 1974 cup final.

And they don’t just stop at results – they have signed every player they could from us. Stubbins, Kennedy, McDermott, Hamann, Enrique, Beardsley, Carroll etc etc. They even tried to get Shearer too.

According to the Liverpool friendly media they want Isak and they’d quite like Hall too.

They have hammered us home and away.

They are the team that brought out a DVD of the first 4-3, they were that happy. Who can forget Hansen literally squirming in his chair on MOTD as they introduced that game. The smug look on his face.

Then there’s the injury time winners they always get, when seven minutes become nine.

There’s the “he’s just offside” when Isak made it 0-2 a couple of years ago. He wasn’t.

There’s the assault on Beardsley in a friendly by Ruddock.

Don’t mention the 1-2 against 10 men.

Maybe now you can understand why that result mattered so much to me and plenty of others. It had been 18 games for since we had beat them for goodness sake!

And did I mention they control the media too?

I even said to my kids that the BBC will be all about “Can Slot lift his first trophy?” And that was the exact headline!!

To have been a football supporter and seen the way the media fall over themselves with that football club is nauseating in the extreme.

So when we think things might change after there’s talk of a Newcastle United takeover, who do you think led the charge to oppose it? Yep, you guessed it. Those fair minded American owned clubs with LiVARpool leading the way.

We then had Klopp airing the views of his club and how unfair it is.

They never realise that their club became the success it is by buying everyone’s best players. Their feeder club approach extended to Southampton too.

So when the whistle went on Sunday, it closed a chapter for me. It put the bookend to the other end of 1974.

It brought me closure, contentment, euphoria and my first drink in nearly 30 years.

It made all my dreams, right from being a little kid in my Newcastle United kit back in the 1970s, come true.

I’m calm. Content even. I don’t actually feel like screaming at their fans when I see them. I just walk on by.

And now we have Saturday 29 March. The celebration.

We are all coming up for that, Tessa the dog included. The tortoise and guinea pigs will stay at home but we’ll be there.

What will we do, where will we go?

Is this what it’s like going to Lourdes or Mecca?

I don’t know really. This hasn’t happened before. Maybe I’ll just do what the song says and “let’s go f…… mental!”