He's the Dan of the moment

Local hero savouring cup glory after slow Burn career

- BY DAVID ANDERSON

IN an age when Premier League clubs have multi-million-pound footballers from every corner of the globe, Dan Burn is a welcome throwback to another time.

Burn admits he will never have another weekend like this one, which began on Friday when he received a shock first England call-up at 32 and finished with him scoring the opener in Newcastle’s historic Carabao Cup win over Liverpool.

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

Burn and Newcastle have each followed a long and winding road to Wembley glory and the 6ft 7in centre-half from Blyth endured relegation from the Football League with Darlington as an 18-year-old.

He has suffered more ups and downs than a rollercoaster and he scored for Yeovil at Wembley in their 2013 League One play-off final success.