A 56-year wait for a major trophy is over for Newcastle United after defeating Liverpool 2-1 to win the EFL Cup final on Sunday. Goals from boyhood Newcastle fan Dan Burn and their talisman Alexander Isak were enough to defeat a Liverpool side that entered the week with a chance to win three trophies and will exit it only remaining in the running for one,

Newcastle United have won the Carabao Cup, their first major trophy in over half a century, beating Liverpool at the end of a woeful week for the Reds.

Newcastle stunned Liverpool 2-1 in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley to end one of English football’s most famous trophy droughts. Boyhood Toon fan Dan Burn and top scorer Alexander Isak scored either side of half-time to at long last halt the club’s 70-year wait for major domestic silverware that had stretched back to 1955.