PPosted ‘high noon ๐ ๐️ bells’ Sunday 26th July 2026
“FAREWELL KING KEV!”
The Toon’s first public game of the new season, woz a mile across the Tyne bridge from SJP, to the Gatesheed International Stadium yesterday dinnaatime!
A somber mood woz in evidence before kick off, az a minutes silence woz impeccably observed for Special ‘K’, in wor first game followin hiz passing last Munday!
It woz one of those games that you will forget by next Saturday, az The Toon huffed and puffed kickin towards the goal at the east end of the stadium!
NUFC wore the new dark blue away kit, while The Heed played in black n white halfed shirts!
Sean Steur woz makin hiz Toon debut in a fairly strong line up! However new signings Akashi Bamba and Bazo Toure were not part of the squad!
Make nee misstayk we had a boat load of chances to take the lead, but luck and good fortune for The Heedbangers, kept the score at nil-nil!
And then a rare Heed attack in the 34th minute resulted in the first goal!
A free kick on the edge of the box deflected off The Toon waall and The Pope in wor goal woz too slow to get the defection before Luke Supyk who slotted the baall into the net to give the home side a 1-0 lead!—-To the delight of the 1,000 or so Heedbangers in a mixed 7,000 plus crowd!
Thats the way it stayed til the break!
We were nee better in the second period az withoot a proven striker on the pitch (still absent due to World Cup duty) we couldn’t find the net!
Just when it looked az though non leegue Gatesheed would pull off a shock win, a Lewis Hall cross hit Heed defender Ben Williams who inadvertently put the baall into hiz own goal to level the score in the 79th minute! (It shud be noted that the smaall seated area behind the west goal woz closed)
There were outings for Matheos Ferreira, Mason Miley, Miograg Pivas and Vakhtang Salia who aall came on az late subs (Hope av sppelt their names reet?๐ค)
There were nee more goals and quite a few in the crowd had left before the full time whistle in a somber occasion followin the death of King ๐ Kev!
Attendance: 7,195 (6,000 Toon fans in the home and away sections!)
GATESHEED PUB CRAWL PIX
6 BOOZERS VISITED
The start of a new season and the start of a new pub crawl!๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ๐บ
Before the game⬇️
After the game in the Gatesheed Railway Quarter next to the Tyne and High Level bridges⬇️
- There were loads of Toon fans in aall the boozers, which helped to boost a trade which iz nearly on its knees! (2 pubs a day are closing somewhere in the UK!)
Aalso the crowd of ower 7,000 iz nearly 10 times wot Gatesheed normally get, which iz a very welcome boost to their coffers!
