Kieran Trippier has hit back at those pundits who criticised Newcastle United’s celebrations after the Magpies ended a 70-year wait for a major domestic trophy.
Newcastle defeated Liverpool to win the Carabao Cup on an evening captain Bruno Guimaraes wept with pride after his side ‘made history’ last month. There were similarly emotional scenes in the stands and, indeed, on the streets less than a couple of weeks later after 300,000 Geordies turned out in the city and on the Town Moor to mark the victory.
However, Jamie O’Hara bizarrely called the parade ’embarrassing’ and criticised Newcastle for ‘acting like they won the Premier League and Champions League’. O’Hara even took aim at Newcastle’s route to the final, after the Magpies defeated Nottingham Forest and Chelsea’s supposed ‘B-teams’, while Paul Scholes claimed ‘everyone tries to get knocked out of that all year’.
Dan Burn, however, noted how there were some figures from outside the region who ‘didn’t understand the magnitude of the pressure’ that had been on Newcastle to win something for so long. The Geordie, who, of course, opened the scoring at Wembley, suggested those pundits did not fully comprehend how ending the drought was ‘such a big thing for the city’ and Trippier said the Magpies’ route to glory, in fact, underlined what an achievement it was.
“I do have an issue with that because if you look at the first game until the final, who did we play?” he told NUFC TV. “Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Forest.
“I understand certain people have…because I have seen it. I could name certain people in the media, but it’s a trophy. You look at the last five winners – Man City twice, Liverpool twice. For us, internally, we’re not bothered but at the end of the day, it’s a cup.”
