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Jonny Stewart is a bass singer, vocal arranger, and producer based in London, he is also a massive Newcastle United fan.

Quite literally, as at 6’5″ he is just an inch shorter than Big Nick Woltemade.

Despite not being born and bred on Tyneside, Jonny Stewart has supported Newcastle United from being a kid.

An interesting explanation from him on the two big influences that saw him start supporting NUFC.

Decades later he cried as Newcastle United lifted the Carabao Cup seven months ago.

Ahead of tonight’s match against Spurs, with United playing for a place in the quarter-final, Jonny Stewart (who is also part of the global folk group The Wellermen) has been talking to the official EFL site.

How did you become a Newcastle fan?

A friend of my parents was involved in building the Redheugh Bridge during the early 1980s, and lived up in Newcastle; one of my best friends at primary school was a Toon fan.

I kept getting Newcastle items from Shreddies Promatch player cards and Sugar Puffs pencil toppers; David Ginola featured on the first football game I owned, FIFA 97; and, perhaps most importantly at the time, I...