Callum Wilson Send 3 words message to Anthony Gordon ahead Newcastle united in ice breaker

Callum Wilson Send 3 words message to Anthony Gordon ahead Newcastle united in ice breaker

Anthony Gordon ruffled a few feathers at the Magpies prior to joining the club from Everton

Callum Wilson says he joked Anthony Gordon and Kieran Trippier should have a boxing bout to break the ice after the winger joined Newcastle United from Everton in January. The England youth international ruffled a few feathers on his last trip to St James’ Park, in a heated exchange with Trippier, Fabian Schar, Nick Pope and Dan Burn.

 

Nonetheless, Gordon has gone from pantomime villain to firm Newcastle fan favourite after making the move to Tyneside, with the black and white faithful starting to see the 22-year-old at his best.

 

“He’s a good guy,” Wilson told the Footballer’s Football Podcast. “He’s with the same agency as me so I felt obliged to make sure that he was settling in okay, like I do with everybody really but I guess more so with Anthony because he’s a young lad.

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“At first, he’s got under my skin before so I wanted to see what he was like and pick his brains. It’s funny because we played Everton and there was a bit of a scrap between Dan Burn, Fab Schar, Kieran Trippier and Nick Pope and everyone just came for him in that moment.

“I wasn’t even the one that was there but he was just annoying me from afar. I was thinking ‘what’s this guy doing?’ Then he joined us and a lot of the lads were wondering what he was like.

 

“For me, one of the first things I said to him was ‘right, you two need to get the boxing gloves on’ about him and Kieran because they’d had a little bit of beef on the pitch but that was just me throwing a little hand grenade out there, letting it simmer and those two settle.

 

“He’s joined us and he’s a nice guy. We’re delighted to have him. Any dressing room I’ve been in, it’s been that tight and strong that anyone that does come in, even if they have an attitude or a persona, they have to change to fit into this environment.

 

“Quickly, you have ten or 15 lads that’re like ‘who’s this?’ He’s going to want to settle in and be liked. A lot of people that do come in, if you do have a front on the pitch, you drop your guard anyway.

 

“We talk about Anthony getting under people’s skin on the pitch, but it’s probably the same for me. People that don’t actually know me, on the pitch you’d be like what a clown this guy is so aggressive and wants to fight with everybody.

 

“But that’s me, that’s my game face. That’s how I get myself in the zone. I think off the pitch, most of the people that you’d talk to and say who’s the funniest, who’s the joker it’s probably me.

 

“If you get to know me and people who’ve shared the dressing room with me, they’d say ‘Cal’s cool’ but defenders that come on the pitch against who I’ll push, kick and shove, they’ll probably be thinking ‘I do not like this guy him I don’t want him joining my club’.

“You get a perception of people on the pitch, but when you’re actually of the pitch and you meet people or bump into them, or you eventually share a dressing room with them, you actually realise that behind the game mode they’re nice people.

 

“Majority of the players have and I’ve never come across anybody that’s come into our environment as a dressing room and been annoying or not settled in. It’s football and everyone gets along really.”