Newcastle United triple injury boost and… STATUES!

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Charlie Bennett provides the Newcastle United latest.

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00:00Hello everybody, how's it going? I'm back on my travels today. I'm no longer stuck inside my

00:04living room because the rain's gone away, but it is still a little bit gloomy. It's been that way

00:09for about five months now. I don't know if you've noticed by now, but I'm more of a summer kind of

00:13guy. Looking forward to bringing you these daily updates. Maybe he's wearing a vest, pair of shorts,

00:19maybe he's even sitting in a nice backyard somewhere, but that's still a few weeks down

00:23the line. For now we've got to pull up with this perennial gloom. But on the Newcastle night at

00:27front there is plenty to be jaffled about. Story broke on the Daily Mail today. Not one, not two,

00:33but three positive injury updates for Newcastle United. Now Eddie Howe's team, you know, has been

00:39short of options in recent weeks from the bench. Especially in attacking areas, you know, following

00:44Miggy Alma on sale to Atlanta United. Callum Wilson was obviously injured. He came back and made a

00:50goalscoring return last weekend. And Harvey Barnes, you know, he still looks like he's going to be out

00:55for a couple of weeks. But the good news is that Anthony Gordon looks like he should be okay to play

01:01against Manchester City there this weekend, which should be a big game. Who would have thought it

01:05could have been? It would have been as big a game it was at the start of the season, you know,

01:10two teams fighting for Champions League given Manchester City's drop off. In defence you had

01:16Dan Burns going back to that Birmingham game. He hobbled off and from our position in the press box

01:22it looked pretty serious, you know. Dan Burns is not the type of player to be going down easy or

01:27looking for a way out of a game. And Eddie Howe admitted to reporters afterwards, he said, look,

01:32he didn't really want to play Dan Burns before the game, but he didn't have much choice. Played him

01:37and sort of was ruined that a little bit after the game. But it all sounds like he's going to be okay

01:43whether he plays against Man City, that's another thing. But it's nothing long term because you

01:48couldn't help but think of that Carabao Cup final, you know, Dan Burney's been one of Newcastle's

01:53best players this season. And for him, that Carabao Cup final, being a local lad, he just feared the

01:59worst when he hobbled off against Birmingham. But it sounds like he's going to be okay and it sounds

02:03like Anthony Gordon should be fit and fired for this weekend. Another positive injury news, Sven

02:09Botman. Now, Sven Botman's knee last season, obviously he missed the bulker last season,

02:15the bulker last year, sorry, with an ACL injury. And when Newcastle fans found out that

02:21he had another knee injury and it's so ruled out for last weekend, it wasn't exactly ideal.

02:27You know, Newcastle fans were sort of fearing the worst a little bit. Is this going to be a recurring

02:32injury? But at the press conference last Friday, Eddie Howe confirmed that it was the opposite knee

02:36and now news has emerged that Sven Botman should be okay. It's nothing too serious. And that's

02:41important, you know. We spoke after the game, me and my colleague Jordan Cronin, about sod's law.

02:48Newcastle United, Lloyd Kelly could barely get a kick all season. They let him go and two left

02:53footers there sent a half cent up injured. But it's looking like they're going to be okay and

02:57that's all good for Newcastle on the injury front because they've taken a gamble in the

03:01January transfer window. They didn't sign anybody. So to get players back, you know, with that

03:07attack and especially in the wide areas, you'd think with Callum Wilson back in the mix and Harvey

03:12Barnes a couple of weeks away, if everyone can stay fit, Newcastle should have a solid end of

03:16the season. A little curveball that I would like to throw back to you at home. The Carabao Cup final,

03:22that's the big topic on Tyneside at the minute, isn't it? You've got tickets, you've got people

03:26going on sale, you've got people getting all up a height in the bars, in the pubs, on the streets,

03:31on social media. It really is the number one story in Newcastle right now, the Carabao Cup final.

03:37And I was just thinking, how can I pose an interesting question for you today?

03:41Statues! You might be thinking, statues? What's what you can't nod about? Eddie Howe. Now I asked

03:48Eddie Howe personally last week, I went, what would it mean to you to be the man to finally,

03:54after 70 years of domestic doom where they've won out, what would it mean to you to finally

04:00be the ones to get Newcastle over the line? Yourself, Jason Tindall, Graham Jones, all the

04:06coaching staff. And he said it would mean the world, he said it would mean everything. He saw

04:11a number one goal when he came to the club. Now you've got to think, so many famous names

04:17since Newcastle won the FA Cup in 1955. So many heroes, so many legends of the club

04:23that are revered and will be forever, but they never actually won anything.

04:27Alan Shearer's statue outside the ground scored more goals for Newcastle than anyone in the

04:31club's history. Came so close in 1998 and 1999, didn't win anything. Sir Bobby Robson

04:39took Newcastle from, you know, relegation, fighting relegation positions in the Premier League,

04:44took them on an amazing journey up towards the Champions League places, fighting for the title.

04:49Some of their nights here in the Champions League under Sir Bobby Robson is the reason why he has

04:53a statue outside of St James's today. But again, I come back to it, didn't win anything. Kevin Keegan,

05:00a man who has zero recognition in terms of a statue or a plaque or anything outside of St

05:04James's Park, took Newcastle even further from the second division to within a whisker on the

05:10Premier League title. I don't have to remind some of the older fans how painful that 1995-96 season

05:15remains to this day. So in any house case, would a Carabao Cup win over Liverpool next month?

05:22Ending the curse, getting the monkey off the back for Newcastle after decades, kick-starting the

05:29Saudi era, the first trophy since the new owners came in. Would a Carabao Cup win be enough for

05:35Eddie Howe to get that statue outside of St James's Park or even a new stadium? Let us know what you

05:41think in the comments below. I thought that would be a little interesting one to throw back to us.

05:45And yeah, I'll catch yous later.

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