READ TIL THE END! RIP 🪦 KING 👑 KEV

 Posted 7:00pm bells 🔔 Wedinzday 22nd July 2026

SPECIAL ‘K’. LOST BUT NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN BY THOSE WHO SAW HIM PLAY AND MANAGE WOR GREAT CLUB!

RIP 🪦 KING 👑 KEV!

 POSTED ‘4:14pm BELLS 🔔 MUNDAY 20 th JULY 2026

Very sad news that Kevin Keegan haz passed away reaches us!

A TRUE LEGEND!

RIP 🪦 KING 👑 KEV (Lost but will be never forgotten by those of us who saw him play and manage ⬇️

 ‘THE NUFC ‘ENTERTAINERS’!

HOW IT ALL BEGAN 44 YEARS AGO IN 1982 ⬇️

Special thanx to The Silver Fox for the Ronny- Gill headline aall those years ago!

And for this tribute below! ⬇️

Some more bad news!

Just heard that Toon away traveller Brian Ormiston haz passed away az well. Brian had travelled to NUFC away games for ower 50 years!

RIP 🪦 BRIAN

THE TOON 3 DARLO 0 ***FRIENDLY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!

 Posted '12:47pm bells' 🔔 Munday 20th July 2026

The Toon's forst pre season friendly took place at the newly named Knox trinin groond on Saturday---A game we couldnt gan tee, coz it woz behind closed doors!

NUFC won 3-0 playin 2 entirely different teams in the 1st and 2nd half!⬇️

Joe Willock, Will Osula and Sean Neave scorin wor goals!

Sorry, there are obviously nee pix of the game, but we went to Dunbar in Scotland instead to dee a bit of new groundhoppin---to watch Heaton Stannington for the east end of the Toon, play Dunbar United 

FT 1-1  match report AND PIX on that game on Wedinzday at high noon bells' 🔔 

THE UNDERTAKER AND LIAM FROM THE LAMP *** LOST BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN!

Posted '2:00am bells' Friday 17th July 2026

THE 'ALDER SWEENEY' MEMORIAL GARDEN' AT ST. JAMES' PARK

On this day 12 years ago John Alder 'The Undertaker' and Liam Sweeney 'From the Lamp' were on their way to New Zealand to watch The Toon in pre season friendlies.
They never got there az their plane waz shot doon ower The Ukraine and they perished alang with nearly 300 others!


They may be lost but they will NEVER! be forgotten by those who knew them well (like me) and those who had never met them!

RIP Lads!

ING-ER-LAND V THE ARGIE BARGIES *** WORLD CUP SEMI- FINAL 2026

 Posted ‘high noon bells 🔔’ Wedinzday 15th July 2026 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Updated the morning after the night before!🙈

8 bells 🔔 kick off GMT 

(Geordie Meeen Time!)

Well! here we are on semi final day in the World Cup and Ing-er-land are nearly there!

The anly problem iz dodgy decisions from the ref and VAR and a certain Messi of course!

Big Dan Burn 🔥 iz in the squad again, but we envisage that he will anly be used if the 3 lions are winnin, to stop gap the defence!

So let’s hope he gets at least a little bit game time!

Let’s aalso hope there iz nee controversy and that they reach the final against Spain, who beat France 2-0 last neet!

We will aall be glued to the telly, come the 8 bells 🔔 kick off time in the UK

Howay the Lions! 🦁 🦁 🦁 yee can dee it!

Updated the morning after the night before

They hoyed it away in the dyin embers of the game by tryin to defend a 1-0 lead by takin the goalscorer off and packing the defence!—It didn’t work— that’s why they lost 2-1!🙈

NUFC 8th IN THE PREMYAA LEEGUE PECKING ORDER!

 PPosted ‘high noon 🕛 bells 🔔’ Tuezday 14th July 2026

THE CARTEL SIX!—PLUS VILLA!

News that £50 million transfor target Johan Manzambi, who NUFC have been after for months, haz been hijacked by Aston Villa, iz yet anothaa reminder of just where we are in the top flight pecking order!  

This follows Liverpool, who hijacked Victor Munoz last month, after agreement woz reached!

Add on (deep breath!) Hugo Ekitike, Joao Pedro, Ben Sesko and James Trafford, who have aall been hijacked by the Cartel Six, in the last 12 months, —-with Villa now 7th in the pecking order!——that makes us the 8th in line for star player, who will come to us!

It’s like vultures, hovering over their prey (NUFC) and diving in to steal ‘the prize’ at the last minute!

Add in that Isak 🐀, Gordon, Tonali and possibly captain Bruno, have aall departed, PLUS Elliot Anderson, who we were forced to sell!—then the ‘vision’ of bein “Number One!” by 2030 looks ridiculous and laughable now! 

Although Toon fans are definitely NOT laughing at wor inability to keep or sign star players!

ING-ER-LAND EXPECTS. SEMI FINAL AT STAKE!

 Posted ‘high noon bells 🔔’ Saturday 11th July 2026 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿   Updated ‘1:20am bells 🔔 Sunday 12th July

The qwaataa final of Ing-er-land’s game v Norway takes place tooneet at 10:00 bells 🔔 UK time in Miami —and we can anly hope that they can dee it, to set up a semi final against The Argie Bargies’ or The Swiss Rollers’?

Big Dan Burn 🔥 iz the last Toon player standing in the World Cup and IF he iz selected, he will need doubt mark Irling Haarland—A player who haz anly scored just once in 8 games against us while playin for Man City, when Big Dan haz marked him! (See top photo!)

Come midneet 🔔 bells’ we shall naa the outcome! 

Posted 1:20am bells Sunday 12th July* ⬇️

“NOR-WAY THE LADS!”

FT after ET 

NORWAY 1. ING-ER-LAND 2 

Into the semis v The Argie Bargies or The Swiss Rollers! 

ANOTHAA ONE IN! ANOTHAA ONE OOT!?

 Posted ‘high noon 🛎️ bells’ Friday 10th July 2026

Wor third signin of the transfor window! This time from Dutch giants Ajax!

Sean Steur iz 18 years old and played 25 times for Ajax last season in the Eredivisie Leegue

 He iz a central midfielder and haz 28 caps for Holland at youth level!  The fee iz reported to be £23 million and he haz signed a 5 year contract!

Rumour haz it that more signings are due, but we hear that The Liverbirds could yet again hijack a player we’re after! ⬇️

And then this! ⬇️

Of course we hear that Bruno wants away to The Arse, but again this iz just a rumour!

The Geordie Times will of course bring you, wor loyal subject any more news of comings and gannings, when we find oot! (Probably 2 days late!)

NUFC CONFIRMED FIXTURE DATES

 Posted 'high noon bells' Friday 26th Joon 2026  Updated Thorzday 9th July 2026

"FOR THOSE WITH VERTIGO---DIVVINT LOOK DOON FROM THE BACK ROW!"

“NEW GROOND!—- NEW GROOND!” 🤪👍🏁

NUFCs pre season friendly fixtures have been updated, plus wor forst batch of Premyaa Leegue games with dates and kick off times!

And the one friendly that stands oot the most, iz wor visit to the iconic Mestalla Stadium in Valencia, Spain!

The stands are SO steep, that yoo are warned not to trip and fall in the top deck (where they put the away fans), or yoo could end up on the pitch below!

There are NINETEEN flights of stairs and nee lifts to get up there and fans who are not fightin fit are advised not to attempt it!

(In comparison The Milburn and Leazes Stands have 14 flights of stairs!)

TOON FANS WILL BE IN BLOCK 733 (ARROWED↖️) IN THE TOP CORNER SECTION

When Celtic played there, their fans were warned aboot the very steep rake of the stand behind one of the goals!⬇️

If you'd asked me for a 'bucket list' of stadiums I'd love to visit, then The Mestalla would definatly be in mee top 10!

*Anyway!— the full list of Toon friendlies iz listed below!⬇️ 

Saturday 18th July   Darlo at wor trainin groond, behind closed doors

Saturday 25th July   The Heedbangers of Gatesheed at Gatesheed Stadium at '12:30 bells'

Wedinzday 29th July   The Big Bristols (City) at Ashton Gate at '7:30 bells'

Saturday 8th August   Valencia at The Mestalla at '9:00 bells' local time

Wedinzday 12th August   The Toffee Noses of Everton at Murrayfield, Edinburgh at '5:15 bells'

Saturday 15th August  Bayer Leverkusen at SJP at ‘3:00 bells’

Sunday 16th August   Strasbourg at SJP at 4:00 bells

*Premyaa Leegue

Sunday 23rd August  The Liverbirds at SJP at 4;30 bells live on Sky

Saturday 29th August  Sporz at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at 5:30 bells live on Sky

Saturday Septembaa 5th  Bournemooth at SJP at 12:30 bells live on TNT

Munday Septembaa 14th  Leedz at Elland Road at 8:00 bells live on Sky (Could be changed   Not cast in stone) 

Saturday 19th Septembaa  Hull City at SJP at 3:00 bells nee telly

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GEORDIE TIMES GROUNDHOPPIN AND TELLYHOPPIN ITINERY FOR JULY AND AUGUST

 Posted ‘7:11pm bells’ Tuezday 7th July 2026

THE MESTALLA, VALENCIA, SPAIN

Tuezday July 7th: UTS Stadium 

Dunston v The Bishops from Auckland

Saturday July 11th: Bishopton Road

Stockton Town v Dunston

Then: Geordie Times HQ telly! 📺 

Ing-er-land v Norway in Miami

Tuezday July 14th: UTS Stadium

Dunston v North Sheeeldz 

Saturday July 18th: New Countess Park

Dunbar v Heaton Stanington

Tuezday July 21st: Green Lane

Redcar v Dunston

Saturday July 25th: Gatesheed Stadium

Gatesheed v NUFC

Tuezday July 28th: UTS Stadium

Dunston v Sooth Moor

Saturday August 1st: UTS Stadium

Dunston v Darlo

Saturday August 8th: The Mestalla, Spain

Valencia v NUFC

Wedinzday August 12th: Murrayfield, Scotland

Evaatin v NUFC

MURRAYFIELD STADIYM, EDINBURGH, JOCKLAND

Saturday August 15th: SJP

NUFC v Bayer Leverkusen 

Sunday August 16th: SJP

NUFC v ????

Sunday August 23rd: SJP

NUFC v The Liverbirds 

Saturday August 29th: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Sporz v NUFC