This website iz dedecated to the Newcastle United groundhoppers who follow the fortunes of the team aroond the world (and beyond!) The ground totals include competitive and friendly forst team, resorve team, junior team and Newcastle United X1 games that 'the mad-sad groundhopper' has attended, aall for Newcastle United games only, in the last SEVEN decades*** cheers!***'Fink' (the mad-sad groundhopper!)***last count 381 (382 inc Motspur Park outside)
Posted ‘4:44pm 🛎️ bells’ Wedinzday 16th Septembaa 2026
“COME IN NUMBER NINE!”
At aroond aboot 10:00–‘10:30pm 🔔s after the Moan U v Brightin game, the draw for the 4th roond of the Leegue Cup takes place— 8 days after we beat Millwaall 1-0 at The New Den!
The anly team left who’s groond ‘The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers’ have never been tee, iz Fleetwood Toon, who play Sheff U at their Highbury groond later on! ⬇️
“Come on Fleetwood!”
That iz wor forst wish! If not— a home draw pleeeze!
Posted ‘12:27pm 🛎️s Wedinzday 16th Septembaa 2026
Will be reposted on Friday!
Great news that The Leazes End Companions boozer on Leazes Park Road, behind the East Stand iz now fully open after bein closed for ower a year due to damage to the roof! (A 2 minute walk to the nearest turnstiles)⬇️
Draught beer iz now back on after the ‘lines’ have been thougherleee cleaned and prices are much lower than surrounding boozers!
The large concert room upstairs will be open from 11:00am bells’ 🔔 for the match v Hull City on Saturday and there 2 smaller rooms doonstairs az well!
The friendly bar staff will sorve you your ale and there are plenty of seats upstairs to rest your tired limbs, while you drink til you drop!🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
“SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOZER, IT’S YOUR DUTY!”🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Posted. ‘2:18pm 🛎️ bells Tuezday 15th Septembaa 2026
“A BOB GELDOF MOMENT!”⬆️
Last neet woz a reality check for certain az NUFC put in a forst half performance that absolutely 💩 for want of a better emoji!
We were SO disjointed and disorganised, while Leeedz were on fire! 🔥
Lost possession , misplaced passes and completely outpaced by a dominant Leeedz side, produced wor worst 45 minutes for a very lang time and we were lucky to be just 3-0 doon az the holes in wor midfield and defence let the home sides run riot!— While wor powder puff attack produced nee shot on target in the forst period!
We dreaded the 2nd half az a cricket score woz on the cards, but thankfully they anly added one more, while we got a consulation goal in the 90th minute through sub Toure!
(4 shots on target this half includin the goal)
Of course the Leeedz fans ‘stuck the knife 🔪 in! “All that money are you’re fcuckin 💩!” they gleefully sang az the pointed towards us!
How right they were,unfortunately!
It woz just like watchin ‘Bruceball’ aall ower again, 5 years after he departed!
And heed coach Matty Jaissle’s 5 game unbeaten run had well and truly come to an end!
Attendance: 36,693 (2,960 thourilleee p*ssed off Toon fans)
AND wor next away game iz on a Munday neet az well, at winless Coventry! (So far!)
Wor misery wozzint ower however!
We’d parked the ‘canny tranny’ in a car park not far from the groond, where the cars were parked bumper to bumper!
A 4 by 4 in front us blocked wor way az the owner still hadn’t come back some 45 minutes after the game had ended!
We managed to get oot eventually az the car next to us departed! It woz a very tight squeeze, but we were oot!
‘Sarnie Steve’ said we should turn left at the end of the road, away from the city centre to avoid the inevitable traffic jam!
However the road woz bumper to bumper the other way az well and it took a further 30 minutes to get to the M62!
We were flyin—but wait! — a sign said the M1 was closed between junction 46 to 48 and that the A1M woz aalso shut near Selby Fork—We opted for the M1
It took another 30 minutes to get through the jam and diversion on the Leeedz ring road and we joined the A1M at Wetherby—and we were flyin again!—But wait!
We had to drop ‘Jimmy the Riddler’ off at Houghton le Shit-hole on the way back BUT the Durham junction woz closed, so we had to drive on to Chester-le-Street and double back— an extra 20 minutes and 10 miles added to the jorney!
The final straw woz that The Redheugh Bridge roondaboot woz closed on the south side of the Tyne, so yet another diversion aroond Gatesheed toon centre, before we finally arrived at Geordie Times HQ, at ‘2am 🔔 bells’ some 4 hours and a bit after the match had ended!
A 90 miles jorney that actually clocked up 120 miles, which should have taken half the time!
It just wozzint wor day!—WOZ IT!🥶
THE PUB CRAWL consisted of 2 drinkin dens inside the groond. One in the fan park where booze woz dispensed from vending machines!—⬇️ 3 oot of 6 didn’t work!
And the other woz Howard’s Bar!⬇️
Posted ‘high noon 🛎️ bells’ Munday 14th Septembaa 2026
We heed for west Yorkshire in a couple of hours, for wor Premyaa Leegue game v Leeedz at Elland Road, which iz an ‘8 🛎️s’ kick off! (Sky telly 📺!)
6 or 7? 🤔(not sure how many) of us are travelling doon in mee 9 seater canny tranny, az we cannit get back by 🚂
NUFC are unbeaten in wor last 3 visits here and hopefully we can extend that tooneet!
We expect, more or less the startin line up we had in the 2-2 draw against Bournemoooth at SJP at the beginning of the month!
We are undefeated in 5 Leegue and cup games so far this season! (Lang may it continue! 🙏🏻)
A full Geordie Times match and booze report will appear here sometime tomorrow!
Az per usual: “Watch this space!”
Posted ‘3:33pm bells’ 🛎️ Sunday 13th Septembaa 2026
“DUNSTON BAD BLUE BOYS ROB THE HIGHWAYMEN!” 😵💫🔫🥶
With The Toon not playin Leedz til Munday, aa had a blank weekend to fill in—and wot better way to start it, with a X14 bus trip from The Haymarket in The Toon to Morpeth for the Morpeth v Dunston cup tie at Craik Park!
It woz time for some much needed liquid lubrications when the bus arrived, so aa heeded for the bizarrely named ‘Electrical Wizard’ for the first ‘gargels’!
It woz then onward to ‘The Tap and Spile’ in Manchester Street, where aa met up with Dunston diehards Davy the Silver Fox and hiz sidekick Barbara!
“TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED!”
And then an unexpected twist!— A lad who I naa very well (unfortunately!) caalled Russ, who iz a massive Toon fan like me, walked through the door!— He’s not from Morpeth and not a fan of eethaa club, so hiz sudden appearance woz totally bizarre az he’s from Heaton in the east end of The Toon!
Morpeth iz 15 miles north of there!
Why woz he here? Woz he stalking me, or wot?⬇️
Anyway, it turned oot that he woz meeting a mate from Morpeth and woz gannin to the match az well!
After a few ‘tonsil ticklers’ there, it woz time to heed for the groond, which iz aboot 2 miles away in the middle of neewhere!
So a taxi woz booked to take us there—- and back, after the match! A couple more ‘lubrications’ in the Morpeth clubhoose and it woz time to heed for the ‘3 🛎️s start!
A’d been here a few times before to watch NUFC reserves and Dunston, so it wozzint a new groond for us groundhoppers!
Morpeth wore black and yellow stripes, while Dunston wore their aall blue strip!
There woz a canny crowd of aboot *600-700 and a fair few from Dunston, including’The Dunston Ultras’ who are aged between 12 and 17. Hence— The Bad BLUE Boys’!🥶⬇️
‘The boys in blue’ started off the much better team az they attacked the right hand goal!
The huge fir tree opposite us in a forest were swayin in the wind— The Morpeth Mexican wave, perhaps!? ⬇️
It woz nearly half time and still nil-nil, so aa decided to heed back for the clubhouse to beat the queues at the bar —and of course Dunston scored in stoppage time, meanin I missed it!—typical!
An own goal az it turned oot by an unfortunate Morpeth defender, from a Ramsey cross!
To be honest it wozzint a very good game, which woz spoiled by the wind, but Dunston managed to haad on in the 2nd half til the final whistle, to progress to the next roond of the FA Trophy!
Posted ‘5:00pm 🛎️ bells’ Friday 11th Septembaa
We are not even halfway through Septembaa and aalready the Xmas and New Year telly fixture dates have been confirmed! Aall on Sky telly!⬇️
It’s just a pity that they cannit release the dates for wor fixture changes in Novembaa and orly Decembaa az well, so we can book trains and hotels etc!???🤔
Az NUFC have a blank weekend, coz we divvint play at Leeedz til Munday neet, ‘The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers’ are off to Morpeth in deepest Northumberland to see them play Dunston in The FA Trophy tomorrow to get wor fix ‘fix’! (If you see wot we meeen?
A match and Morpeth boozer report will appear here, probably on Sunday!
Ground 314 (revisited)
1st Visit for a 1st team game
Date of Visit: 8th September 2026
The New Den, New Cross, London
Millwall 0
Newcastle United 1 (Joe Willock)
League Cup 3rd round
Attendance:14,698 (2,072 Toon fans, plus Arlo ‘The Football Dog’)⬇️
“WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY PAST ‘THE ‘WALL’!”
This woz in fact mee 2nd visit to The New Den, az a’d been here 12 years ago to watch NUFC U18s beat Millwaall U18s 3-1 in a Youth Cup game!
I had to leave before the end az wor 1st team were at Arsenal in an evening kick off, so to make the start we had to leave early!
So this would be the forst time that I would be able to see wor forst team here, for the full 90 minutes plus stoppage time ( and (God forsake!) penalties to decide the winner!
And to be honest, penalties looked nailed on az we huffed and puffed wor way through the game, playin in wor horrible lilac pink 3rd kit!
The forst half woz dreadful az we couldn’t break doon a Championship team who had 11 players oot through injury! (We had a very strong line up az well!)
I can remember just one shot on target and 2 corners by Jacob Murphy that looped ower the goal and oot for a goal kick!
The Millwaall fans are a different animal these days and are nee where az intimidating az they were when I visited The old Den back in 1978!
The lions are more like pussy cats these days—a far cry from 48 years ago!
But! they were loud at times, which made it a canny atmosphere, despite the .6,000 empty seats in the home sections!
We kicked towards ‘wor end’ in the 2nd period, but it made not a haypith of difference az the home side defended well!
And then the main moments of the game! Millwaall’s Arconte ran through on the right wing and cut in to send a ferocious shot against the near post, with Toon goalie Hornicek clipping the baall az it came off the post!
Luckily for us it rebounded to safety and straight away we were on the attack doon the left wing, where Pardo threaded a baall to Lewis Hall who swung in a cross to Joe Willock,who woz waitin near the far post and he flicked the baall with hiz left foot, to leave former Gatesheed keeper Marshall stranded, az it hit the back of the net in the 82nd minute! This sent the 2,000 plus Toon fans behind that goal into meltdoon!
Millwaall then flung every outfield player forward to try and find an equaliser, but thankfully it never came and after 5 minutes stoppage time the ref blew to end the game!
Definitely NOT one for the archives, but it keeps us unbeaten in the forst 5 games of the season!
The draw for the last 16 takes place on Wedinzday 16th Septembaa!
Pub crawl pix!⬇️ 6 in total!
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