The biggest footballing story of the past week has to be Newcastle United’s new signing Sandro Tonali’s trip to Wetherspoons. The dinner that captured a nation.
For the uninitiated, of whom I suspect are very few, a post went viral on X last week where someone had spotted a reserved notice on a table in Gosforth Wetherspoons bearing the name Tonali.
Fans and media were convinced it was a wind up and that one of the jokers in the Newcastle dressing room sent him there, maybe telling him it’s the best Italian food outside of Italy. However, Callum Wilson has now hinted that Tonali went there of his own accord, which is equally hilarious to those who know ‘Spoons.
Michail Antonio couldn’t believe Tonali booked a table
The thing that really tickled Wilson’s Footballer’s Football Podcast co-host Michail Antonio though, wasn’t so much that Tonali went to ‘Spoons, but that he booked a table first and used his own name.
Speaking about it on the podcast, Antonio said: “I have been to a Wetherspoons. The madness for me is that man phoned up and booked a table! He put his name to it!
“That is the craziest thing for me. He’s called up and booked a table and put his name down! Everybody knows, he’s coming there after this game.”
Jacob Murphy isn’t off the hook yet
Antonio is right, it could have spectacularly backfired on Tonai if he was after a quiet meal with his girlfriend. Doesn’t he know he’s at the club that has fans who track private jets into Newcastle airport on the daily?
I’m still not convinced that it wasn’t a wind-up by someone in the club, someone who is good at playing along with the dumbfounded masses. I’m still backing Jacob Murphy.
Whether it was a wind-up or not, apparently Tonali enjoyed his night in ‘Spoons. I wonder if he’ll make it his regular. I can just see him sat at the end of the bar on a week off necking jar after jar of Old Perculiar.
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