Joe Buck previews Newcastle United's planned Carabao Cup trophy celebrations taking place on Saturday. An open top bus parade will begin at St James' Park and end on the Town Moor with a huge event put on by the club.
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00:00So, 13 days on from their triumph at Wembley, are you over it yet? I'm certainly not. Newcastle
00:07United will parade the Carabao Cup trophy around the city for everyone to bask in the
00:13glory of what Eddie Howeside did. You know, lots of it is made of the fact that it's been
00:1670 years since their last major domestic trophy, goes 57 since their last major trophy of any
00:22kind. You know, a lot has been made up on that over the last couple of weeks, but Saturday
00:2629th March will be the day that the whole city can come together and celebrate as one
00:31the achievements of this site. Now, 32,000 at Wembley were able to do that, of course,
00:36in the initial minutes and even hours after the final whistle last Sunday, but there'll
00:42be thousands of people back at Newcastle who couldn't go to the march, even people who
00:47travelled to London or across the world, who will now be able to celebrate with Newcastle
00:51fans in the city centre. And it's set to be a brilliant day on Saturday night. The
00:57council said it's going to be an event that the city's never seen before. The amount of
01:01people expected to be there, over 100,000 we expect to be in Newcastle. It's going to
01:05be a tremendous day for everyone involved, the one that the club will obviously hope
01:11goes smoothly and one the fans will treasure forever. Now, the club have announced that
01:16there will be an open top bus parade. There was confusion at the beginning whether that
01:19would be included or not. Now, safety concerns had to be thought about, you know, road closures,
01:25everything. So, you can see why the club necessarily held off on announcing the open
01:29top bus parade straight away. They're obviously going to have the event on the Town Wall,
01:32which we'll get to, but yes, the open top bus parade will start up at St James' Park,
01:35make its way along the Gallagher, up Percy Street and up to the Town Wall, where the
01:39players will then get off with the trophy and the players and staff will get off. They'll
01:44then be presented on stage at an event held by the, put on by the club where each player
01:48will come on, be introduced by whoever's presenting this and then, you know, there'll
01:54be another big trophy lift for fans to enjoy. And it'll be a day where, as I said, Newcastle
01:58fans can just celebrate and just really reflect on what this team have achieved, the history
02:02they'll go down in. And yes, another chance to celebrate with their Newcastle Knights
02:06heroes of the day, you know. You've got players like Bruno Guimaraes, obviously a fan of Joe
02:11Linton, who straight away after celebrations, off to Brazil to go on international duty.
02:15Dan Byrne, the goalscorer, and Alexander Isak, the other goalscorer, both went on
02:19international duty. So, you know, they've had, and obviously the rest of them who weren't
02:23on international duty went to Dubai. So they've had a lot of time apart, the players, you
02:27know, they haven't really been together since even the early hours of Monday morning before
02:31they all left. So it'll be a nice celebration for them to, you know, meet up again and celebrate
02:36their achievements. And of course, Newcastle fans to celebrate their achievements. At the
02:39Town Wall event, we'll have music, I believe special guests have been teased, and the club
02:44will play the full match. Again, I'm sure that most people in attendance there will
02:49have seen that full match probably once or twice since last Sunday. But yes, you know,
02:53that'll be a big event. No drink allowed, but I think that's the good thing. I think
02:57it'll allow the families to enjoy it and, you know, people to come together. Now, of course,
03:01you know, pubs and bars, restaurants across the city will be open, and they'll be expecting
03:05lots of business on the day with the bus parade. Now, if you're one of them who's just going to
03:10watch the bus parade, and then go and celebrate in the bar, you know, you've got them options.
03:13And if you're one that's going to do just the Town Wall event, you've got that option. Oh,
03:16of course, you might be doing both. You might go have a look, get a glimpse of the bus,
03:20get over the Town Wall to celebrate. But yeah, it's going to be a tremendous day and one that,
03:25you know, it will live long in the memory of every single Newcastle fan there. It doesn't
03:28happen often. Now, I hope this isn't the last video I'm ever doing that says Newcastle United
03:32are planning an open-top bus parade. I hope I'm doing many of them in the future. But yeah,
03:35right now, this weekend, it's going to be a brilliant day. And of course, once that's over,
03:41we don't want to think about being over. But once that's over, they've now got 10 really big
03:44Premier League games to go to try and get Champions League football. Conference League football's in
03:47the bag. That was secured with a win at Wembley. Can they get Champions League? Can they make that
03:51next step? They don't have to get Champions League. You know, there's lots of talk about
03:55keeping all their key players, especially Isak, of course. I don't think Newcastle have to get
03:59Champions League to necessarily keep all of them players. But it would be a little stagnation on
04:03their journey. You know, they missed out on the Europa League again this year. If they can get
04:06Champions League and win the trophy, that's incredible. That's an incredible achievement,
04:11and one that will stand them in good stead, both in the transfer market, when they're trying to
04:14attract players. And of course, this time next year, when the PSL calculations are coming in,
04:18when the Champions League finances are all coming in. So yes, it's going to be a huge 10 games if
04:23they can get that. And start with Brentford. Brentford are no-mugs. We've seen that plenty
04:26of times. Newcastle were defeated by them in December. They obviously beat them a couple
04:31of weeks later at St James' Park. So, you know, both teams go into that game one win apiece this
04:36season. But yes, that's a huge game. And then the games come thick and fast after that. You know,
04:40we've got Leicester, Manchester United, Crystal Palace and Aston Villa all within sort of two
04:45weeks of each other. So that's going to be a huge period for Eddie Howell's side to try and get
04:48Champions League football. And then, you know, they can celebrate all they want on Saturday,
04:51and I'm sure they will. And I'm sure Eddie Howell will encourage it. He encouraged it after Wembley,
04:54and I'm sure he'll encourage it again. But once Sunday hits, once Monday morning gets in,
04:58you know, they'll have to be back forwards. As I said, they've got 10 games to play,
05:0230 massive Premier League points to play for. And in the race to Champions League,
05:06we all know how close that gap is in that race. So yeah, it's going to be a tremendous day on
05:11Saturday. I'm sure it will be. We'll have all the very best videos, pictures, stories from that day
05:18on the Shields Gazette. I'm going to be in the crowd. My colleague Dom Skirr will be hopefully
05:23up close and personal with the players. So we'll have all bases covered that day. And then of
05:27course, back with everything you need to know ahead of the Brentford game, all the pre-match
05:33updates, team news, injury news and everything like that. So yeah, it's going to be a really
05:37busy few days for Newcastle United. And of course, the best way to stay up to date with
05:41everything that happens across the whole club is with the Shields Gazette.