
Dan Burn is one win away from the most perfect week of his life. The 32-year-old Newcastle United defender earned a surprise England call-up on Friday morning ahead of starting the Carabao Cup final for his boyhood club on Sunday.
Newcastle hasn’t lifted a domestic trophy for 70 years and no United captain has touched silverware of any kind since 1969, when Bob Moncur raised the Inter-City Fairs Cup.
It’s something Burn is acutely aware of. “It’s been such a long time since we’ve won something, that I’m not surprised that people say that [the club is cursed]” he explained to journalists at the North East Football Writers Dinner this month.