DAN OF THE MOMENT!

An England call-up and then a goal in a final... no wonder ace Burn is buzzing

- DAVID ANDERSON

IN an age when Premier League clubs have multimillion-pound footballers from every corner of the globe, Dan Burn is a very welcome throwback.

The big defender has just had the weekend of his life.

It began on Friday when he received a shock first England call-up, at the grand old age of 32, and finished with him scoring the opening goal in Newcastle's Carabao Cup win over Liverpool on Sunday.

Not bad for a Geordie who grew up loving the Toon and Alan Shearer and who collected shopping trolleys as a teenager at Asda while he studied sports sciences at college and played for Darlington.