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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.

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