Even in the immediate aftermath of his crucial - arguably season-defining - moment Bruno Guimaraes refused to get swept away with the euphoria.
The famous old stadium may have been empty, give or take a few players warming down, and the ground staff preparing the pitch for Wednesday's game with Crystal Palace but the electricity generated by 50,000 Geordies during the Easter holiday win over Leicester left St James' Park still tingling somewhat. As the players emerged from the tunnel after another triumphant team photo there were smiles on their faces as they left the ground.
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Bruno has only been on the patch a matter of weeks but already we've seen patience, when the Brazil star waited quietly for his first start, professionalism, a piece of outrageous skill at Southampton for his back-heeled winner and then when Newcastle had to dig really deep, his fighting qualities as he hauled Newcastle back from a goal down to score a brace to beat the Foxes.
The new owners wanted to make a statement in the January transfer window when splashing out £33.5million on the South American from Lyon and his arrival has certainly set the standard. Not only has it added to the quality on the pitch it has resulted in those around him raising their game.
Eddie Howe knows that better than anybody and beamed after the game: "Well, he got whisked away quite quickly with the media, so we shared a brief moment together with everybody. He's an incredibly passionate individual – I love that about him.
"He cares deeply whether we win or whether we lose and again, and we love that about him because you need players that wear their heart on their sleeve and are prepared to give you everything on the pitch. He's certainly one of those."
It would have been easy to bask in the glory but Bruno made one thing clear at St James' Park last night by declaring to Chronicle Live: "This is just the beginning". As the city centre swayed and the pubs in Toon were drunk dry, Bruno returned home and started his preparations for Crystal Palace.
He said: "I need another look at the goal." The midfielder was referring to his frantic last gasp winner and fairness amid the pandemonium who didn't need another look at it just to make sense of it?
On a day that cult hero David Kelly was immortalised with a huge banner on Gallowgate which read: "You can't put a price on that goal!", the Bruno header felt like it could be talked about in a similar vein.
OK, the goal wasn't up there in terms of the desperation stakes because without the Kelly goal vs Pompey in 1992 the club may have gone out of business. Without that goal we wouldn't have the Entertainers and Kelly knows as much himself.
The supporters of that generation also know it. That's why Kelly was afforded a standing ovation on to the field in 1997 in Sunderland colours when he returned to St James' Park no less.
Bruno's goal also offers safety and security and putting the calculator to one side, Newcastle are pretty much safe. It brings hope to a club that were once staring the Championship in the face.
Hope that signings on the same level as Bruno will join him and I have to say if Newcastle do manage to sign Lucas Paqueta from Lyon this summer, given the reception of recent transfer links, it could push the new owners' popularity to even higher levels. In fact, we might be talking about an unofficial public Geordie holiday if Bruno's big mate Paqueta is unveiled this summer.
We're told that Paqueta is interested in a move to the Premier League, putting Newcastle in the mix, but Lyon would have to be open to selling the £58million rated star first. As Bruno and Joelinton celebrated in Samba style in front of the Leazes End with the sun shining brightly on them, you wonder what impact a third Brazilian star could have at SJP.
The chemistry could take Newcastle to a different place. Even though it feels like we are living in a different world since the days of Mike Ashley and Steve Bruce. For now, Bruno got the tone right. With six games to play nobody should be getting too excited.
What his two goals and battling performance have given us is the right to finish the season in style. It doesn't matter where Newcastle finish as long as they stay up and like Kelly, like Bruno, if they battle as hard as this in the final handful of games, nobody will complain.
