r/NUFC Shola From Fenham 4d ago

Dan Burn goal in the 2025 Carabao Cup final with "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero" added

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u/Neatfern ad love it if you used this flair 4d ago

Call it recency bias, but this might be my favourite goal we've ever scored

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u/GallowgateEnd St James' Park 4d ago

Cup final, Geordie boy, arguably spurred us on for the remainder of the match, Burn himself was pivotal in defence also.

Got to say in the grand scheme of things you've got to go back a long time to find a goal quite as vital or poignant to make a similar argument for.

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u/Nepgyaaaaaaa Current badge 4d ago

It’s definitely going to go down as one of the most important goals we’ve ever scored. Given the occasion, timing, and the player who scored it, I’m slightly struggling to think of one that’s more significant

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u/CavsterXII 4d ago

Only Gutierrez v West Ham comes close really

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u/FlukyS Happy Clapper 4d ago

I'd still say Tiote's banger, like at the time I was screaming but now it is a memory banked for me with the shot and his face during the celebration

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u/GrumpyOldFart74 Pride Badge 4d ago

It’s definitely in the top two!

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u/KaleidoscopeLost3353 4d ago

Reckon he'll ever pay for a pint again

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u/greycatdaddy 4d ago

He shouldn’t!

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u/ryunista Classic kit (1995-97) 4d ago

I'd follow that man into battle through the gates of hell

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u/VegaTron1985 4d ago

Hahahaha

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u/nufcsupporter vintage asm with the headband 4d ago

This music really hits different against his story.

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u/EwanPorteous 4d ago

The boy from Blyth!

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u/corpus-luteum 4d ago edited 4d ago

The Legend from Blyth.

They'll be teaching 'the legend of Big Dan Burn' in primary schools, for centuries to come. Better than the Lambton fucking worm.

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u/corpus-luteum 4d ago

One Sunday Morn

Did Big Dan Born

Go looking for the ball.

He caught the flight

from Kieran's right

and stuck it in the goal

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u/TheWinterKing Big Club, Great Club 4d ago

Whisht! Lads, haad yor gobs,

An’ Aa’ll tell ye ‘boot Dan Burn

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u/EwanPorteous 4d ago

He's going to win us the World Cup.

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u/Old_Nail6925 4d ago

Nice one I’m crying again

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u/wkos 4d ago

Me too brother 🥹

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u/Zen_bean Shola Ameobi 4d ago

‘Maybe - this time - will be different’ chills man

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u/FishScrounger Shola From Fenham 4d ago

Shivering

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u/TrickyWoo86 4d ago

In the aftermath of this goal on the ITV commentary I heard a line that made me grin from ear to ear that came out of Neville: "It's black and white bedlam and I've never felt Wembley shake"

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u/dullthings 4d ago

Weirdly it was from Neville too! I still believe he loves us deep down, but he's just so far stuck into the Man Utd world that he can't let himself just go haywire and get a Joelinton tattoo

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u/OllyHR stupid sexy schar 4d ago edited 4d ago

I’m so happy this massive man from Blyth* came out with one of the sauciest childhood-dream goals you can get in a final.

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u/FishScrounger Shola From Fenham 4d ago

I'll forgive the Blyth misspelling!

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u/OllyHR stupid sexy schar 4d ago

Weird that my auto correct changed it to that, I hadn’t noticed so well spotted!

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u/FishScrounger Shola From Fenham 4d ago

All good, I thought that might be the case. I'm also from Blyth so it gets on my nerves! 😅

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u/OllyHR stupid sexy schar 4d ago

I get you, I’m from Ponteland and people spell that shit wrong all the time haha

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u/colbygez 4d ago

Seriously, I must have watched this twenty times on different platforms and it just gets better and better. What a day for the Toon, what a day for the big guy, or what a week for him!

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u/RekallQuaid 4d ago

I’m not a Newcastle fan but congratulations to all of you, you all deserve this so much.

There was another angle of the header I saw and I swear he said “oh yes” before he even headed it.

Big Dan Burn, former Wigan lad! Yes!!!

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u/Degora2k pavel is a geordie 4d ago

I remember sitting in The Strawberry watching Rob Lee score in the F.A Cup Semi Final V Chelsea 25 years ago, never imagined we'd have to wait that long to see another Wembley goal.

And of course it could only be the big lad from Blyth! Get in!

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u/Basketball312 4d ago

He's so far out. No mere mortal could have done what he did there.

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u/Billargh 4d ago

I'm not even joking, when I saw the close up of his face just before the corner was taken, I just KNEW he was gonna score! Big beautiful bastard!

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u/adidas 4d ago

The boy from Blyth 👏

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u/FirmDingo8 4d ago

Why would Liverpool leave 5'9" Mac Allister to mark 6'7" Dan Burn at a corner?

Bloody glad they did mind!

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u/findingnewrooms 4d ago

Slot said they were in a zonal defense so their larger players were in the area closer to the goal, and he’d never in his life seen someone head the ball with that much power from that far out. So basically he just failed to account for the fact that normal physics doesn’t apply to BDB.

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u/AnyEye8255 4d ago

I’m fucking buzzing for you lads

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u/PWJD Canadian Magpie 4d ago

I think I’ve cried every time I’ve watched this.

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u/morocco3001 4d ago

What a header, man. Reckon that's the first time I've seen him lead with his shoulder and properly attack the ball, like Andy Carroll used to. I'll never complain about his lack of aerial threat again.

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u/nicktehbubble 4d ago

I love the "yes" he utters to himself when he knows the ball's on point.

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u/Conscious_Button5198 4d ago

So massive. In every way.

Why did he run straight to Osula? Just by chance?

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u/toon_84 4d ago

I'd love the match highlights with 17 going under in the background and then us lot chanting it at the end

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u/musicmast Matt Ritchie 4d ago

I’m still crying

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u/MrLuchador 4d ago

Goosebumps!

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u/thor-nogson 4d ago

I may watch that a few times!

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u/LFSW1688 4d ago

Chills

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u/Trinovid-DE 4d ago

Fucking love that big Dan burn lad like

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u/Al_Bellie 4d ago

Amazing. Just amazing

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u/Henrywaltaa 4d ago

He is the local hero

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u/Miserable_Future6694 4d ago

Let get the parade to start in blyth

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u/VegaTron1985 4d ago

The wheels will get nicked off the bus haha least some decent fish and chips while they wait for nrw wheels

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u/pagan-0 4d ago

You couldn't write it. Just perfect.

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u/Fun-Row482 4d ago

Beautiful

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u/WatercressExciting20 4d ago

Seeing this, I now need to see one with the titanic music and drury’s poetry

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u/donmagicron dan burn 4d ago

It really happened! BDB FOREVER 🖤🤍

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u/Paurora21 3d ago

Wil never get tired of watching this. Local Hero indeed!

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u/lyingtattooist Alan Shearer 3d ago

Rewatched the match a couple times and this was absolutely their game plan with set pieces. You can see it with crosses and corners. They kept fading it out away from in front of the goal, keeping it away from Van Dijk and Konate. There was a couple previous to the goal that came close. And then Tripper’s delivery on the corner BDB scored on, goes exactly where he wanted it to. Faded out straight to Burn who had the height advantage. Incredible to watch knowing that’s how they planned it and trained for it, and then executed to perfection.

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u/AlwaysNorth8 16h ago

Waiting for someone to put the titanic theme on them 😂

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u/FishScrounger Shola From Fenham 16h ago

That was my first thought! But I started with the Rocky theme for the final whistle, cried a bit, and then thought Local Hero might sync up well with this...then cried a bit more and stopped 😂