Come on in number 75 for Newcastle United – He’s going to be one hell of a player! | OneFootball

Friday teatime sitting in ‘spoons having scran.

A couple of pints and contemplating the upcoming SELA weekend game v Girona, I got the first indication that it was going to be a great night.

A pint for 99p. Yes, you read it right, 99p! How long since you could get a pint for that!

I wasn’t wrong (about the great night in general), 32,000 inside St James’ Park and the buzz of football is back at last.

The Euros to an extent filling the void and a canny substitute to help the withdrawal symptoms of close season, then a great Paris Olympics for GB.

With hardly time to soak up the tremendous atmosphere, the Toon go one up on three mins and four up by the 38th minute.

Game over.

The visitors Girona, who, judging on last season’s third place finish in La Liga, behind Real Madrid and Barcelona and a massive 15 points ahead of fourth place Atletico Madrid, scored 85 goals (only Real Madrid scored more, 87) and had an average of 1.21 goals conceded, looked like a great challenge for us.

Did they overachieve last season, like many say we did the season before?

On Friday night’s performance, it certainly looked like it, whilst taking nothing away from our great overall performance and the way we just seemed to boss them from start to finish, Girona having the odd chance here and there (Bournemouth came from behind to also beat them 3-2 on Saturday).

With half-time seeing Anthony Gordon substituted and No.75 Trevan Sanusi given an opportunity to show his raw talent, the 17-year-old  didn’t disappoint!

Eddie Howe WAS going to loan him out this season – not now!

I’ll leave it there and finish with “watch this guy – he’s going to be one hell of a player!”