It prompted unbridled celebrations both on the pitch, on the Wembley terraces and back on Tyneside, where thousands flocked to St James' Park just be part of the bigger picture. The pictures of Newcastle United players, staff and the club hierarchy will live long in the memory as the emotion swept all under the Wembley arch.

Newcastle United have just won a trophy. Fifty-six years of hurt wiped away in an instant on a March evening in London. There wasn’t that same old sinking feeling. Instead, it was an evening where legends were made.