The defender knows he will never have another weekend like the last one, which began on Friday when he received a shock first England call-up at the age of 32 and finished with him scoring the opener in Newcastle's Carabao Cup win against Liverpool.
That is not bad for a Geordie who grew up loving the Toon and Alan Shearer, right, and collected shopping trolleys as a teenager at Asda while he studied sports science 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 roller-coaster and scored for Yeovil at Wembley in their 2013 League One play-off final success.
Burn made his Premier League debut aged 21 for Fulham the following season, only to suffer relegation again. There was another relegation to League One with Wigan in 2017 before helping them win promotion the following season, along with a run to the FA Cup quarter finals, beating Manchester City. He finally became a Premier League regular with Brighton aged 27 before a dream £13million move back to Newcastle, who released him at 11, in January 2022.
Even then he was not sure he would last long at St James' Park because of the massive injection of Saudi cash.
His success is just reward for 16 years of hard graft.
Burn said: "It's been huge. I just had little goals to progress at the time, you don't think about playing for England. It...
That is not bad for a Geordie who grew up loving the Toon and Alan Shearer, right, and collected shopping trolleys as a teenager at Asda while he studied sports science 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 roller-coaster and scored for Yeovil at Wembley in their 2013 League One play-off final success.
Burn made his Premier League debut aged 21 for Fulham the following season, only to suffer relegation again. There was another relegation to League One with Wigan in 2017 before helping them win promotion the following season, along with a run to the FA Cup quarter finals, beating Manchester City. He finally became a Premier League regular with Brighton aged 27 before a dream £13million move back to Newcastle, who released him at 11, in January 2022.
Even then he was not sure he would last long at St James' Park because of the massive injection of Saudi cash.
His success is just reward for 16 years of hard graft.
Burn said: "It's been huge. I just had little goals to progress at the time, you don't think about playing for England. It...
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