Around 150,000 Newcastle supporters lined the streets as the club celebrated their Carabao Cup win with an open-top bus parade through the city centre, with Ant and Dec also involved in the festivities
Hundreds of thousands of Newcastle fans took the streets on Saturday to celebrate the club’s historic Carabao Cup victory. Newcastle’s stars took part in an open-top bus parade, with the route taking them from St James’ Park, through the city centre and to the Town Moor where a stage had been erected.
Fans lined the streets to celebrate their victory, with Newcastle’s 2-1 win over Liverpool at Wembley earlier this month marking the first time in 70 years that the club had won a major domestic trophy.
Around 150,000 supporters turned out, with lifelong Toon fans Ant and Dec among them before they joined the players on the bus. The duo will appear on stage at the Town Moor, with Newcastle legends Alan Shearer, Les Ferdinand and Bob Moncur taking part in a Q&A before the current squad take to the stage with the trophy.
Fan group Wor Flags also unveiled a giant flag ahead of the parade that showed manager Eddie Howe celebrating the win. The mural was dropped from the Sandman Hotel near St James’ Park and sparked huge cheers from supporters.
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« It’s probably a cliché but it really does mean everything, » Adam Stoker told Chronicle Live on behalf of Wor Flags. « As the final whistle blew at Wembley I looked round and saw tears everywhere.
« People I’ve known most my life who rarely show emotion and have followed this club everywhere were bawling their eyes out. It just shows how special this moment was to our city and its people.
« Bruno’s words spoke to us all. We’ve had a generation who’ve grown up and died without knowing Newcastle United having success, and that’s why it means so much that this time, was finally the time.
« We’re all absolutely thrilled that the whole city will be able to celebrate this achievement together with a parade. It’ll be an incredible day for families and friends, so a huge thank you to those who have made this happen. »
Among the fans who attended the parade was Jung Min Lee, the leader of South Korean supporters’ group Toon Korea, after he made the more than 5,000-mile journey from Seoul to Newcastle to be part of the festivities.
« This is a once in a lifetime chance for me, and I’m a really, really happy man right now to witness this, » he told Chronicle Live. « My father was born in 1957, so this trophy drought was longer than his life.
« The Korean War had just finished two years before it! My journey was 15 hours, but it wasn’t a bad journey compared to all the sufferings that we had when I’ve been a fan. »
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