Dan Burn's odyssey grants Newcastle their own special slice of football history | Barney Ronay

The only locally born starting player for either side proved the catalyst on a day where classic cup final magic won out Sometimes football just can't help itself. Even now, in its glazed and managed state, plaything of propaganda machines and sharp-fanged hedge funds, it will still give you these moments, will follow its own gorgeously hammy storylines. Here it gave Newcastle a story that couldn't have been more perfectly styled and finished: a Dan Burn day for a Dan Burn team at a Dan Burn Wem...