The black-and-white clad hordes had turned up wondering if it would finally be the day. There was optimism and yet massive apprehension, too. The Newcastle United support had lived on the end of their nerves since setting up this Carabao Cup final with victory over Arsenal in the semi-final. When you last won a domestic trophy in 1955, the FA Cup victory over Manchester City, the goals from Jackie Milburn, Bobby Mitchell and George Hannah going down in folklore, it is going to be this way.
It would be the day, one when new legends were born. Above all, it was just a giant Newcastle party. Yes, there was tension at the end, of course there was when the board went up to show eight additional minutes and the Liverpool substitute Federico Chiesa ran through to make it 2-1, the goal given after a VAR review showed he was onside.
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