When Newcastle United at last win a trophy and you are surrounded by Arsenal fans | OneFootball

I am surrounded by Arsenal fans.

Whether it is where I work, or my wife’s extended family. All Arsenal.

The kids I work with are predominately Arsenal, as are the PE teachers.

How many of the kids or adults ever go to games? Very few.

There are though the Millwall and Charlton lads who actually go to games, who I can have conversations with, who understand what it is like to never win a trophy.

This week there was a moment. after days of just absorbing the momentous occasion that had happened on that Sunday afternoon.

Two years ago, I had made a teaching aid, an automata where when the handle was turned the League Cup was lifted above St James’ Park, such was my optimism and certainty that we would beat Man U at Wembley.

How to demonstrate to bored teenagers energy and movement conversion.

What could be better than an example of energy conversion from rotary motion to reciprocating motion, as a miniature League Cup is raised in front of the Leazes End.

And so, as I once again in the aftermath of our win this time at Wembley over Liverpool, explained and demonstrated the physics involved, the mouthy kid at the back (A Man U supporter, so he says, though he has never been to Manchester and would have difficulty placing the city on a map) decides to make a comment; “Enjoy it! That’s the last trophy you’re ever gonna win.”

There is a lot to think about in that comment.

Even if it was the last trophy Newcastle United ever won, at least we had seen it won. It will not be the last but the first of many in my opinion.

So what about the Charlton and Millwall lads?

They were genuinely pleased for me that we had beaten Liverpool and won a trophy and were in congratulatory mood. The same teenagers are bored by the big clubs winning all the trophies and don’t really care who it is, which now includes us.

Forty years ago I was a bored teenager.

Like them I didn’t care about the so called big clubs winning everything, I had no interest in them.