Thanks for that Eddie | OneFootball

I might be a little late to put this post together, but what a month March 2025 has been for Newcastle United and the city of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

It’s been said before many times, a whole generation and more have never seen us win anything major. Time went by and it continued.

Always that glimmer of hope around the corner maybe, kept us hanging on. The hope of what it might feel like one day IF we won something.

I have been a season ticket holder for many years. My daughter joined this journey of this mad club 11 years ago when she was 10.

Little did I know that 11 years later we would stand side by side inside Wembley, to see Newcastle United win a major trophy!

Sunday 16 March for us started with that outside chance and hope again, that just maybe this time it would be our year. You try to imagine what it would feel like if we won at Wembley.

On that Sunday NOTHING prepared anyone for how it actually felt when it happened. It was nothing like we could have dreamed of.

The feeling, the outpouring of emotion, was incredible. The stories people will tell of Sunday the 16th of March 2025 will last for a very long time.

When big Dan Burn scored to put us one up, even scoring at Wembley was again, something that just felt alien to many.

As the game went on the hope grew for us all that just maybe, this was our year at last.

The second goal needs no description to how it made us feel.

As the game ticked away from that moment on, I kept watching the clock, praying as every minute went by. In the latter stages I kept glancing to my daughter, seeing how much this meant to her, seeing her eyes filling up but keeping it in, hoping that we would get across the line.

I started to believe that finally we would get this day to witness it first hand together. We have stood together so many times home and away, witnessed some good nights, but also some God awful ones! When Liverpool scored, some must have felt the doubt creeping in again, the pain of possibly throwing it away, even though we had been the far better side.

I looked across at my daughter again. This time her eyes filling up with hope, fear, joy, and probably many more emotions. I was praying nearly by this point. Looking up at the clock, another few seconds goes by, so close to winning.

The whistle goes, have we really done it? Is it real?

The outpouring of emotion in the crowd was like something nothing else we will experience again, given the first time would always be special.

The stories some must have of how they felt, older and younger generations than me.

Walking down Wembley Way afterwards, with so much pride and joy towards NUFC again, was wonderful.

That car journey back for me and my daughter was wonderful, talking about the weekend, the memories. Somehow I think they will last for a very long time.

I can’t thank Eddie Howe enough for what he has done for this club. Give the man a 10 year contract!.

He has given us hope and belief again in the club, when it seemed for years that was never gonna be good again.