WEMBLEY HO’WAY
When Football Daily heard that Newcastle United had invited a celebrity saxophonist to play their iconic walkout music before Wednesday night’s Carling Cup semi-final second leg against Arsenal, it was beside itself elves with excitement. Sadly, our favourite blue-haired horn-tooter, Zoot from The Muppet Show, failed to materialise and it was left for local muso Johnny “Blue Hat” Davis to step into the breach and play Going Home instead. A lifelong Toon fan, he provided more than adequate cover for the terminally stoned and famously unreliable sax-man from Electric Mayhem, who wasn’t alone in failing to turn up at St James’ Park. For all Gabriel Martinelli’s pre-match talk about Arsenal looking to “score three, four, five” in order to overturn their two-goal first leg deficit against Newcastle, the Gunners failed to land anything resembling a glove on their hosts, with Mikel Arteta’s players possibly still basking in the afterglow of the open-topped bus parade that followed their emphatic weekend win over Manchester City.
