THE SIMON TEMPLAR MOB V THE TOON *** TOMORROW AFTERNOOON!

 Posted ‘high noon 🛎️ bells’ Friday 24th January 2025

ST. MARY’S ‘MACCANO’ STADIUM, SOOOTHAMPTON

We heed with great difficulty to the sooth coast via Bormingham az King’s Cross station in London iz shut again for the 2nd time this season for maintenance!🥶

The dreaded replacement busses are from Peterborough to Bedford (which will take ages!) and then a train to St Pancras (next to King’s Cross) and then onward to Sooothampton via tube and Waterloo station!

So “fcuk that”, it’s via Bormingham instead to avoid the bus jorney!

Storm Enoch (or whatever it’s caalled?) haz caused havoc today and disrupted LNER trains southbound, with many cancelled, so it’s by a stroke of luck that we are travelling by car instead later today, on the forst part of wor 350 miles jorney to deepest Hampshire!

On paper it shud be an eazy 3 points az Sooothamton have won just 1 solitary game this season and have just 6 points in total!—while The Toon are gannin for wor 5th away win in a row and 10th win in 11 games oweraall!

BUT! hang on a minute!— this iz NUFC and anything can happen, az we sadly foond oot last week in wor shock 4-1 defeat by Bournemoooth at SJP!

We have slipped from 4th to 6th in the Premyaa Leegue table after last weeks defeat, but a good win would propel us up at least 1 place! (A Champions Leegue place, no less, az Inglish clubs are deein well in this season competition and 5th place will probably be ‘up for grabs’ next season!)

Aall 3,000 away tickets were snapped up ages ago and it shud be noted that the away end haz moved to the opposite end of the groond since we were last here, to the Chapel/Kingsland Corner!

Nee news of the team line up, but we expect ‘nee change’ from last week!

A full GeordieTimes match (and booze!🍺) report will appear here sometime on Sunday!

APU “Watch this space!”

Explanation: Simon Templar woz a cult hero in the 1960s TV series’The Saint’, which of course iz Sooothampton’s nickname!—-‘The Simon Templar Mob’—-get it?🤔

THE NUFC MAGICAL MYSTERY PUB CRAWL TOUR 2024-2025

 Posted periodically (az we tick the away groonds off, on wor travels), from 4th August 2024 to 21st January 2025 (half century reached!)

the remarkable hare, matlock, for an under 21s game v derby under 21s (see boozer number 011)

The NUFC away pub crawl tour 2024-2025 iz underway and so far we have visited 50 different drinkin dens at 18 away games! (13 forst team games and 5 U21s games) 

Some pubs we have visited numerous times, so first visits of the season only listed (*Numerous visits*)

Premyaa Leegue games, unless stated.

001 tams bar, south shields (south shields v nufc u21s)

002 1st cloud arena chilled beer bar (south shields v nufc u21s)

003 friend at hand, london (bmouth game) *

004 marquis of cornwall, london (bmouth game) *

005 lord john russell, london (bmouth game) *

006 norfolk arms, london (bmouth game)*

007 brewhouse and kitchen, pokesdown (bmouth game)

008 the way outback, pokesdown (bmouth game)

009 waterloo tap, london (bmouth game)

010 vat and fiddle, nottingham (forest, leegue cup game) (aalso for the premyaa leegue game)

011 the remarkable hare, matlock (derby u21s v nufc u21s game)

012 matlock sports and social club, matlock (derby u21s v nufc u21s game)

013 the picturehouse, stafford (wolves game)

014 the yard, stafford (wolves game)

015 the sun, stafford (wolves game)

016 east putney tavern, london (fulham game)

017 spotted horse, london (fulham game)

018 the vault (below putney pies), london (fulham game)

019 craft beer co., london (fulham game)

020 the mill bar and kitchen, manchester (everton game)

021 the barlow arms, liverpool (everton game)

022 the north western, liverpool (everton game)

023 mable tavern, london (chelsea game)

024 aragon house, london (chelsea)

025 president hotel bar, london (chelsea)

026 betjeman arms, london (chelsea game)*

027 the bole bridge, tamworth (u21s v tamworth)

028 tamworth clubhouse, tamworth (u21s v tamworth)

029 the ram, newark (forest leegue game)

030 industry, nottingham (forest leegue game)

031 jb, newark (forest leegue game)

032: the grafton, bedford (palace game)

033: the craft beer cabin, london (palace game)

034: the spirit of endevour, boston (u21s v boston united)

035: ellenders, boston (u21s v boston united)

036: the botanist, london (brentford game)

037: the express tavern, london ( brentford game)

038: isaacs, ipswich (ipswich game)👆👇

039: the briarbank, ipswich (ipswich game)

040: gasworks, manchester (man u game)

041: peveril of the peak, manchester (man u game)

042: the britons protection, manchester (man u game)

043: the waterhouse, manchester (man u game)

044: heaton park, manchester (man u game)

045: the volunteer, london (spurs game)

046: redemption, london (spurs game)

047: the swimmers at the grafton arms, london (arse league cup game) 👆👇

048 the tilley stone, gateshead (u21s v gateshead)

049 the metropole, gateshead (u21s v gateshead)

050 grey nags head, gateshead (u21s v gateshead)