When Dan Burn speaks to the press you often get gold. He's such a charismatic, naturally funny guy that you can almost guarantee he's going to give you something to talk about, and the giant Newcastle United centre-back hasn't let us down.
Dan Burn has been a colossus at the back for Newcastle this season, not just because of his immense stature but he seems to have found another gear and a sixth sense that enables him to be in the right place to make crucial blocks.
The days of us crying for Eddie Howe to drop him seem so long ago now. In fact, we're actually gutted that he may be getting dropped for Sven Botman to pair up with Fabian Schar again.
Poor Eddie Howe has a huge call to make when all three are fit and available and we don't envy him at all.
Burn was impressive again last night as Newcastle secured a two-goal lead to bring to St James' Park for the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg against Arsenal next month, and after the game he spoke to our good mate, Troy Deeney for CBS Golazo where he reserved a special kind of praise for one of his teammates.
Cast your minds back, those who were around, to Skee-Lo's hip-hop banger, Wish. If it were Dan Burn that famous opening bar - "I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her, I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat, And a six-four Impala" - would have been a lot shorter.
I wish I was Joelinton. It's not as catchy, but it's understandable.
Burn was prompted to talk about Joelinton by Deeney who has been very complimentary of the Brazilian in his recent Team of the Week selections, but Burn paid him the ultimate compliment.
"He's amazing. I said if I wanted to be any football player, I'd wanna be Joelinton. I think he's got everything, honestly. You can give him the ball anywhere, he's solid, he'll run for days, he's brilliant to have in the team, I'm so happy he's been doing well and hopefully he gets more plaudits."
Our feelings on Joelinton are very clear at this point. If we could stop the ageing process and keep him forever, we would, and it seems that Big Dan Burn would too.
PL | GD | PTS | ||
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1 |
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25 | 36 | 60 |
2 |
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25 | 29 | 53 |
3 |
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25 | 12 | 47 |
4 |
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25 | 17 | 44 |
5 |
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25 | 15 | 43 |
6 |
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25 | 13 | 43 |
7 |
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25 | 9 | 41 |
8 |
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25 | 5 | 39 |
9 |
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25 | -3 | 38 |
10 |
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25 | 0 | 37 |
11 |
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25 | 1 | 34 |
12 |
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25 | 12 | 30 |
13 |
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25 | -3 | 30 |
14 |
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25 | -4 | 30 |
15 |
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25 | -7 | 29 |
16 |
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25 | -18 | 27 |
17 |
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25 | -19 | 19 |
18 |
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25 | -27 | 17 |
19 |
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25 | -30 | 17 |
20 |
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25 | -38 | 9 |