[Photos: Simon Lamrock]

YOU wonder what the streets of Newcastle were like over the weekend as every single Geordie seemed to be in London for the football, whether they had a ticket or not.

Every corner you turned in the West End, there was somebody with a black and white scarf. The Liverpool fans were hopelessly outnumbered and outsung.

I was even sat next to a couple of the Magpies’ fans when I took in a matinée at Sadler’s Wells over in Islington on Saturday.

It’s not the time to tell them the Carabao Cup is a rather Micky Mouse trophy – it would be mean to steal away their fun after a 70-year wait and such a good-natured takeover of the capital city.