Please, don't wake me up. I could drift through 2025 on a bed of sweet dreams! I mean, whisper it but our club which for 56 years hasn't been able to win an argument are playing like world-beaters with a real promise to end football's great drought.

Whisper it? Naw, shout it from the rooftops. Geordies have done their penance and a bit more. We have been scared to tempt fate for far too long. We deserve to get carried a way just a little bit and only for a few days.

At a time when every paid up member of the Toon Army is having to tie their ankles to the doorstop because we are supposed to keep our feet on the ground let us examine the reasons to be elated. Let us look at facts in the cold light of a new day and not rely on biased opinion. Deal in the truths that make it a wonderful world.

I will lay them before you and then ask: are we not entitled to be chuffed?

• Newcastle have won seven league and cup games on the bounce. Seven out of seven.

• They have scored 20 goals in doing so, never notching less than twice in every match.

• Only two goals have been conceded in those seven fixtures. United have been both gluttons and misers at one and the same time.

• In an astonishing nine-day spell Newcastle have gone away to top clubs Manchester United, Spurs, and Arsenal and been victorious each and every time ending up winning 2-0 at the Emirates without their first choice goalkeeper, one of their first choice central defenders, and without their skipper.

• We have risen from 12th to fifth in the Premier League table and stand on the cusp of our second Carabao Cup final at Wembley in three years.

I ask again: are we not entitled? No one is going to douse my elation at this precise moment. Since Budapest in 1969 my hair has gone from dark brown to snowy white, wrinkles like a road map have become part of my everyday look, rock n'roll has given away to just roll and still I have waited in vain for that old feeling of success.

Oh, I know we have won nothing yet. No one need remind me. I have sat through five Wembley cup finals since, all lost, and seen a 12-point lead for the PL title blown. I am taking nothing for granted but it is nice to wallow and dream again. Maybe, just maybe.

Having scatter gunned everyone in both the PL and League Cup we now turn our attention to a third competition which presents United with another opportunity to end the hurt. When Bromley used to make the long haul north from Greater London to play on Tyneside it was to face Gateshead rather than their famous black-and-white big brothers across the river at St James Park.

Indeed they last made that trek to the International Stadium only last year in April when they were coshed 2-1 by the Heed during Bromley's epic season when they won promotion to the Football League for the first time in their 132-year history.

Come Sunday Bromley will be back up here in the FA Cup and, yes, Newcastle will make a raft of changes because they need to after such Herculean efforts of late but can you see them improving on that Heed result? I say that with great respect to Bromley. I love small clubs because they are the lifeblood of our national sport. I owned Gateshead for over a decade and vividly recall the joy of going to Halifax Town, then a Football League club managed by one of United's old Entertainers Paul Bracewell, and knocking them out of the FA Cup at The Shay.

However I cannot see our League Two rivals doing a bit of giant killing of their own even though Eddie Howe will field a severely depleted team.

Let us consider the possibilities. I'm not saying for one moment that Eddie will start this precise 11 but he could pick players who have had more rest like this team: Odysseas; Trippier, Schar, Kelly, Targett; Bruno, Longstaff, Willock; Almiron, Osula, Barnes. That would mean only one who started at Arsenal would do so against Bromley and Willock has not exactly been over-played of late.

Yet you would expect that side to be good enough to overcome a mid-table League Two team if the right attitude was adopted. It's David v Goliath as well as Magpies v Ravens and we know only too well the FA Cup is littered with the bodies of the famous cut down by stroppy upstarts.

I witnessed United beaten by part-timers Hereford - top flight v non-league - in one of the most famous giantkillings of all time and I am aware that back in 1964 during Joe Harvey's early days Bedford Town inflicted similar humiliation upon Geordies.

Even Howe during his time here along with many of his current players tasted Cup embarrassment dished out by a lesser-ranked club. Back in January of 2022, just a couple of months after Eddie arrived, Newcastle were beaten 1-0 at SJP by Cambridge from League One before a crowd of more than 50,000 excited by the takeover and promise of great days which in fairness rapidly followed with Champions League football.

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No fewer than nine players still on our payroll took part. It marked the debut of Kieran Trippier, freshly signed from Spanish champions Atletico Madrid, and United's strong team read: Dubravka; Trippier, Krafth, Schar, Ritchie; Shelvey, Longstaff, Joelinton; Murphy, Saint-Maximin, Fraser. Willock and Almiron went on as subs.

This is an entirely different set-up of course, not just in terms of talent but style of aggressive play, mental toughness, commitment, and a total lack of fear in attacking regardless of the opposition.

Despite all the warnings about complacency, team selection, banana skins, flukes with players sent off, and own goals United ought to win especially with the feel-good factor that is around the club. The tie has to be decided on the day and that takes away Bromley's biggest chance.

This is the start of three home matches in a week (Bromley, Wolves and Bournemouth) so let United gorge themselves as we press on towards everything we wish for ourselves.