Newcastle star leaps into crowd and hugs disabled fan vertically to celebrate goal

Newcastle battled out an entertaining draw with Spurs at St James’ Park on Tuesday night with the hosts’ captain Bruno Guimarães opening the scoring and pulling off a memorable celebration

Newcastle captain Bruno Guimarães melted fans’ hearts as he leapt in to the crowd to celebrate his opening goal against Spurs – and celebrated with a wheelchair-bound fan with a vertical hug.

The Magpies skipper came on as a half-time substitute and opened the scoring halfway through in the second half with a brilliant finish to send the St James Park faithful wild.

But he won a legion of fans online too with his heartwarming celebration which saw him race over to the accessible section at the front of the stand and jumped over the advertising boards to hug a fan in a wheelchair.

Pictures of beaming fans in the section quickly went viral online as fans praised the captain for his marvellous gesture. One wrote: “Aww. Bruno Guimaraes went and hugged the fan in the wheelchair. The family looks made up!”

Another said: “Bruno Guimarães celebrating with the disabled fan one of the loveliest football things I’ve seen in a while.” A third added: “What an incredibly class celebration from Bruno Guimaraes.”

A fourth said: “Among all the celebrations Bruno Guimarães has done, this one is the best.” Another said: “Bruno scores a screamer than dive-bombs a disabled bloke. What a man.”

Even rival fans admired him, with one Man United fan saying: “I admire Bruno Guimaraes so much! Probably the only United fan who’d want to see us put in a cheeky bid in the summer for him to rest his loyalty and Newcastle’s resolve.”

His celebration wasn’t the only eye-catching one as Spurs defender Cristian Romero equalised with a 95th-minute bicycle kick to snatch a 2-2 draw and mimicked Guimarães’ usual celebration by cupping his ears in front of the Newcastle fans.

Guimarães and Remero shared heated words at full-time as tempers flared following the taunt.

The equaliser was Romero’s second goal of the game after he leveled scores in the 78th minute. Anthony Gordon put Newcastle back in the lead with a penalty in the 86th minute before Romero’s late equaliser.

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