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