Newcastle wins. The city erupts. The internet follows. Below: a curated selection of the sharpest, saddest, funniest and most viral reactions from social media after Newcastle United’s biggest recent victories — especially the Carabao Cup triumph that ended a 70-year wait. Quotes are real and linked to their sources so you can click through. Short sentences. Long ones. Mix of styles. Ready?
Quick context (fast facts)
There are many places where fans talk and react together. Very often this happens in live video chats, where emotions come out instantly and nothing is planned. These moments are hard to record or collect, and that is exactly what makes them special. Anyone can jump into the CallMeChat platform and share their feelings right away. It’s one of the easiest ways to find people who feel the same and talk about what’s happening at this very moment. Still, some reactions do get written down. And a few of those comments don’t just disappear. They stay. They become part of the story.
- Newcastle beat Liverpool 2–1 to win the Carabao Cup at Wembley on March 16, 2025 — their first major domestic trophy since 1955.
- The club later paraded the trophy through Newcastle; reporters estimated around 150,000 people joined the celebrations.
12 top quotes (quick list)
- “WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED CARABAO CUP WINNERS #wedontdoquiet.” — NUFC official post.
- “I don’t want to go to sleep because I feel like I’m dreaming and it’s all going to be a lie.” — Dan Burn.
- “When you’ve been without a trophy for so long… hopefully we have won this it is bright days in front of us.” — Alexander Isak.
- “What a day for everyone connected to the Toon. Congratulations @NUFC.” — Tim Krul.
- “Incredible occasion at Wembley. Nobody can deny @NUFC deserved that.” — Michael Owen.
- “I fucking lost it at some random corner shielding in stoppage…” — Reddit fan.
- “53 years. 53 fuckin years I’ve waited for this.” — Reddit fan.
- “Lads our trophy cabinet is no longer empty.” — Fan post.
- “We have not won a trophy in 0 years.” — Club admin meme repost.
- “A MASSIVE WIN AT ST. JAMES’ PARK!!” — club/X match celebration posts.
- “That winning feeling.” — club Instagram/X, with player celebrations.
- “I’ve waited my whole life for a feeling like this boys. Basking in it.” — Reddit.
Official club & player posts (big, blunt joy)
“WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED CARABAO CUP WINNERS #wedontdoquiet” — the club’s match-day post that summed the moment in a single roar.
Dan Burn, interviewed after the game: “I don’t want to go to sleep because I feel like I’m dreaming and it’s all going to be a lie.” Simple. Honest. Exactly how fans felt.
Famous faces — short, public, unforgettable
Tim Krul, former Newcastle keeper, wrote: “What a day for everyone connected to the Toon. Congratulations @NUFC.” A legend passing the torch via social media.
Michael Owen tweeted: “Incredible occasion at Wembley. Nobody can deny @NUFC deserved that. Brilliant performance.” Straightforward praise from another ex-pro.
Ant & Dec — household names and proud Geordies — were filmed screaming with joy during the celebrations, a clip that instantly became part of the highlights package of the day.
Fan posts that became stickier than the goal clips
“I fucking lost it at some random corner shielding in stoppage hahahahaha. Screaming like a little bitch” — a Reddit comment that captured accidentally-extreme joy and then became a shorthand reaction quoted across platforms.
“WE ONLY WENT AND FUCKING DONE IT!!!! HWTFL!!!!” — short, loud, capitalized. That’s a direct fan post from the match thread that was echoed on X and Instagram.
“53 years. 53 fuckin years I’ve waited for this” — poignant, distilled decades of longing into one brutal line. It hit home for older supporters and moved neutrals.
Meme accounts and the admin wins
Some reactions weren’t just words. They were edits, graphics and instant jokes.
The club admin’s playful repost — turning an old “we have not won a trophy for X years” graphic into “we have not won a trophy in 0 years” — was widely praised and retweeted as a perfectly timed piece of social-media theatre. It became a meme in itself.
Accounts dedicated to Newcastle memes (for example, Memecastle and SoccerMemes) posted short clips and images that racked up hundreds of thousands of views; one captioned montage — “Newcastle fans after winning their first trophy in 70 years” — spread across platforms and entered the fans’ visual language.
Emotional moments captured live
A fan who appeared on live radio almost broke down while describing the feeling of being at Wembley. That clip was shared widely because you could hear the city inside the voice. Raw moments like that were everywhere: live TV, local radio, phone recordings, TikTok reaction videos.
Reddit’s match thread became a living archive. Comments ranged from sober (“Well deserved”) to delirious (“Cans. In it.”) to reflective (“I’ve waited my whole life for a feeling like this boys. Basking in it.”). Those small lines tell the human story behind the headline.
The global responses (neutrals, rivals, and celebs)
Not all praise came from Geordies. Rival fans and neutrals posted messages of respect: short congratulatory lines, nostalgic notes, and a few gentle jibes about long waits. That mix is why the thread still reads like a small social history of the match.
Former players and pundits also weighed in. Many used brief, measured praise; others — including Alan Shearer — let emotion show. Those posts amplified the moment for followers who didn’t watch live.
Why these reactions mattered (brief analysis)
Because the win closed a 70-year loop. Because social media turned private joy into a public parade online. Because a club’s admin tweet and a fan’s teary radio interview now sit in the same digital scrapbook. Those are facts; they’re visible in the posts above and in news counts about attendance and coverage.
A statistic: the crowd on the trophy parade day was counted in the hundreds of thousands by major outlets — a signal for how much the victory resonated beyond the 90 minutes.