VICTORY parades are incredible, if not surreal, moments for those lucky enough to get to experience them.Those Newcastle players, Eddie Howe, the entire city, are in for one hell of a day.PAWatford gleefully celebrated promotion in 2014/15 but by the time the bus parade came around, feelings were a little different[/caption]RexBrazilian heroes Bruno Guimaraes and Joelinton enjoyed Newcastle’s Carabao Cup final glory against Liverpool[/caption]RexThe Wembley triumph made boss Eddie Howe an instant Toon legend[/caption]And I can say that from experience, getting promoted to the Premier League with Watford in 2014/15.
And, in our case, it started the week before. It was very true of my captaincy that we were on the p*** the second we got promoted.In the penultimate game of the season, we won at Brighton in the early kick-off, and on the bus back to the training ground we were all saying: “Come on, one more win and we are up.
”But by the time we got back to the training ground and got off the team bus, all the scores had come in.A couple of results had to go our way to be promoted and they all happened.Our old team chef, he wasn’t on the bus with us, I think he lived on site.
He must have seen the results and he just appeared, came flying out with bottles of champagne, the lot.You’d have thought he was a pirate, the amount of alcohol he pulled out of nowhere.We got p***ed and went into Watford town centre.
It was a complete tear-up — f***ing brilliant.So, when we played .