Below iz the 'NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' updated match report from Barnet on Tuesday neet, when The Toon's U18s took on The Arse's U18s in the FA Youth Cup.
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Friday 30 November 2012
GROOND 294 UPDATE!
Posted '4:15pm bells' Friday 30th November 2012
Below iz the 'NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' updated match report from Barnet on Tuesday neet, when The Toon's U18s took on The Arse's U18s in the FA Youth Cup.
Below iz the 'NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' updated match report from Barnet on Tuesday neet, when The Toon's U18s took on The Arse's U18s in the FA Youth Cup.
294 underhill, barnet, london
(Ground
number 294)
Date of
First Visit: 27th November 2012
UNDERHILL,
BARNET, LONDON
ARSENAL
U18s 3
NEWCASTLE
UNITED U18s 0
FA YOUTH
CUP 3rd ROUND
Attendance:
500 estimated (includin’ quite a few Toon fans)
“AN UP HILL
STRUGGLE @ UNDERHILL!”
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| 'THE TOON' ATTACK 'THE TUBE TRAIN TERRACE END'! (SPOT THE TUBE TRAIN!) |
Three of
us set of @ ’11:00 am bells’ in mee ‘canny tranny’ from ‘The Black Bull’ in the
shadows of St James’ Park for this FA Youth Cup tie in norf Landan against ‘The
Arse’ who play their resorve games @ Underhill, the home of Barnet FC
We
arrived at ‘5:00 bells’ in good time for the ‘7 bells’ start and parked up in a
side street beside the groond where the floodlights were blazin’ away and made
wor way to the ‘Old Red Lion’ boozer, which was situated on the corner of the
main road within easy hocklin distance of the groond!
Of
course there were a handful of ‘saddos’ there az well who had travelled doon
from Tyneside by various modes of transport and I won’t name and shame them for
fear of ridicule!
After a
few ‘liquids’ in ‘The Lion’ (“ER!”--shandy for me, coz aa was drivin’!) we
heeded for the tornstiles where the princely sum of three quid waz required to
gain entry!
The
forst thing yi notice when yi enter the groond iz the massive slope on the
pitch from goal to goal and it’s ne wonder they want to move az the hotch potch
of bus shelter stands make this one of the worst leegue groonds that a’v ever been
te! (Barnet have been @ Underhill for 105 years and are due to move to a new groond
at the end of this season!)
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| "SPOT THE SLOPE!" |
The groond
sits at the bottom of a hill (under-hill!) with tube trains arriving’ and departin’ from ‘New Barnet Tube Station’ every few
minutes, which waz just a couple of minutes waalk, up the hill behind the ‘uphill’ goal.
The game
kicked off and an eccentric old biddy with an Arsenal hat and flag, who waz
sittin’ near the end of the main stand, started singin’ old futbaall songs by horself, at the
top of hor voice!
It waz
quite amusin’ at forst but after a while it started to get a bit irritatin’ az
she ranted on!
The Toon
had started off well az we kicked ‘doon the hill’ and forward Alex Gilliead
shot into the side nettin’ in the fifth minute, but that’s az good az it got
from wor point of view az ‘The Arse’ went on the offensive from this point and
had several chances to take the lead az they kicked uphill towards (wait for
it!) ‘The Tube Train Terrace End’!
The inevitable
happened in the 22nd minute when Jeffrey drilled a shot past Woodman
in the Toon goal. Their lead waz doubled just before the break when a fine
dribble from Bellerin evaded wor defence and he slotted home.
“IT’S
AALL ‘UP HILL’ FROM HERE!”
The
second half waz ne better for us az we kicked up the hill and it waz anly on rare
occasions that we did venture near ‘The Tube Train Terrace End’ goal az the clock
counted doon the minutes!
The Arse
kept the pressure up and by the mid point of the half we looked well beaten. It
waz obvious at this point that we were gannin to lose the match and ‘Blondie
Alan the Morris Dancer’ <(SH*T!---a’v named and shamed somebody!) waz cursin’
the fact that he’d booked on the midneet bus back from Victoria Coach Station instead
of the train, az he would have had to leave before the end if ‘extra time’ waz
needed to catch the last train yem!
The
final nail in wor ‘coffin’ came at ‘the death’ (excuse the pun!) when Akpom slotted
home past Woodman to put ‘The Arse’ three-nil up and win the game!
It waz
then a five hour drive back to Tyneside and we arrived back at qwaata to one in
the mornin’ with 550 miles on the clock for the roond trip!
Next day
it waz another road trip to Stoke to watch the forst team lose 2-1 and by the
time we got back from this one, a total of nearleee a THOOSAND MILES had been clocked up
in two days!
Who
would be a Toon fan???
Thursday 29 November 2012
GEORDIE TIMES FA CUP EXCLUUUSIVE!
Posted '8:30pm bells' Thorsday 29th November 2012
'The Geordie Times' can excluuusivleee reveeel through wor secret club 'insider' that NUFC are baall number 28 in the FA CUP thord roond draw which takes place this Sunday @ '2:40pm bells' live on ITV!
If we are wrang? then! after the draw iz made, we will eat wor Bordeaux tickets for the game in France next Thorsday! (washed doon with a pint of 'Smith's' in 'The Porcy'!)
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| "COME IN NUMBER 28 !" |
'The Geordie Times' can excluuusivleee reveeel through wor secret club 'insider' that NUFC are baall number 28 in the FA CUP thord roond draw which takes place this Sunday @ '2:40pm bells' live on ITV!
If we are wrang? then! after the draw iz made, we will eat wor Bordeaux tickets for the game in France next Thorsday! (washed doon with a pint of 'Smith's' in 'The Porcy'!)
THE PULIS P*SS POTTS 2 THE TOON 1
Updated '8:15pm bells' Thorsday 29th November 2012
An absolutleee horrendous November waz roonded off with this undesorved 2-1 defeat in 'The Potteries' last neet.
We held our own for the forst half with a much better display than we have had in recent weeks.
The big breakthrough came not lang after the re-start when a Demba Ba shot waz blocked by their keeper, anly for the baall to rebound to Cisse and his resultin' shot went into the net via the post to send the 2,000 or so Toon diehards behind that goal into wild celebrations!
Aa then remember lookin' at the clock as it coonted the minutes to the end of the match and with '80' on the clock we anly had 10 minutes to survive---and The Toon fans revelled in the chant of: "You're just a tramp in a tracksuit!", aimed at Tony Pulis----but then disaster struck!
FORST!---Jon Walters heeded home at 'The Boothen End' just after this to level things and then we just fell apart with 'The P*ss Potts' pilin' on the pressure for the winnin' goal.
The unthinkable happened five minutes later when Jerome fired home past Tim Krul to make November the month NOT TO remember for anyone of black 'n white persuasion!
The lang drive back meant that in two day we had travelled a THOOSAND MILES by road to watch them (the previous day we'd went to Barnet in London to watch the U18s lose 3-0 to The Arse U18s!)
The result meens that we have went through the entire month withoot a win and more alarmingly we have now lost fower Premya leegue games in a row and are anly two points off thord bottom with a tough December to follow!
Toon team: Krul, Coloccini, Santon, Simpson, Williamson, Perch, Anita (Sammy Ameobi 87), Gutierrez, Tiote, Ba, Cisse (Ranger 87)
Attendance: 26,793 (includin' 2,000 or so beleaguered Toon fans!)
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| 'THE TOON' ATTACK THE SOOTH STAND GOAL |
An absolutleee horrendous November waz roonded off with this undesorved 2-1 defeat in 'The Potteries' last neet.
We held our own for the forst half with a much better display than we have had in recent weeks.
The big breakthrough came not lang after the re-start when a Demba Ba shot waz blocked by their keeper, anly for the baall to rebound to Cisse and his resultin' shot went into the net via the post to send the 2,000 or so Toon diehards behind that goal into wild celebrations!
Aa then remember lookin' at the clock as it coonted the minutes to the end of the match and with '80' on the clock we anly had 10 minutes to survive---and The Toon fans revelled in the chant of: "You're just a tramp in a tracksuit!", aimed at Tony Pulis----but then disaster struck!
FORST!---Jon Walters heeded home at 'The Boothen End' just after this to level things and then we just fell apart with 'The P*ss Potts' pilin' on the pressure for the winnin' goal.
The unthinkable happened five minutes later when Jerome fired home past Tim Krul to make November the month NOT TO remember for anyone of black 'n white persuasion!
The lang drive back meant that in two day we had travelled a THOOSAND MILES by road to watch them (the previous day we'd went to Barnet in London to watch the U18s lose 3-0 to The Arse U18s!)
The result meens that we have went through the entire month withoot a win and more alarmingly we have now lost fower Premya leegue games in a row and are anly two points off thord bottom with a tough December to follow!
Toon team: Krul, Coloccini, Santon, Simpson, Williamson, Perch, Anita (Sammy Ameobi 87), Gutierrez, Tiote, Ba, Cisse (Ranger 87)
Attendance: 26,793 (includin' 2,000 or so beleaguered Toon fans!)
Wednesday 28 November 2012
THE ARSE U18s 3 THE TOON U18s 0
Posted '9:20am bells' Wednesday 28th November 2012
Very brief match report:
Ground number 294, Underhill, Barnet, London
In akin to the forst team, the juniors did a 'copycat impression' of them with this totally inept performance @ Barnet's Underhill groond in norf Landan last neet.
We were totally ootplayed and 3-0 waz a fair result az The Arse were a different class to us I'm afraid!
Attendance: 500 or so includin' quite a few 'Toon hoppers' who had made the hazardous 550 mile plus roond trip from Tyneside through floods rain and gale force winds!
(More to follow on this later az I must dash!)
We play 'The Pulis P*ss Potts of Stoke' toneet in the Premya Leegue @ The Britannia Stadium to roond off a vey wet and miserable November! (Roll on December!)
Match report on BOTH games to follow sometime tomorrow!)
Very brief match report:
Ground number 294, Underhill, Barnet, London
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| THE TOON MAKE ARARE ATTACK ON 'THE ARSES' GOAL (SPOT THE TUBE TRAIN!) |
In akin to the forst team, the juniors did a 'copycat impression' of them with this totally inept performance @ Barnet's Underhill groond in norf Landan last neet.
We were totally ootplayed and 3-0 waz a fair result az The Arse were a different class to us I'm afraid!
Attendance: 500 or so includin' quite a few 'Toon hoppers' who had made the hazardous 550 mile plus roond trip from Tyneside through floods rain and gale force winds!
(More to follow on this later az I must dash!)
We play 'The Pulis P*ss Potts of Stoke' toneet in the Premya Leegue @ The Britannia Stadium to roond off a vey wet and miserable November! (Roll on December!)
Match report on BOTH games to follow sometime tomorrow!)
Monday 26 November 2012
NUFC MAD-SAD GROUNDHOPPERS NEWS! *****NEW GROOND!*****NEW GROOND!"
Updated '8:30am bells' Tuesday 27th November 2012
'Mooth-waaterin' news that wor 'FA Youth Cup thord roond tie' against 'The Arses' youth team tooneet will definateleee be played @ Barnet's Underhill Groond and NOT 'The Emirates', az waz forst feared!, iz great news for the 'NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers', az 'Underhill' iz a groond we have neva (ever!) played on or been te before!
Wots more!---the north London 'Leegue Two' club will leave their home of 105 years and move on to 'pastures new' @ the end of this season---never! to retorn! and so (unless we draa them in the FA Cup) this will be wor one and anly chance to gan there!
'The Bees' are rumoured to be movin' to a groond caalled 'The Hive' in Harrow for next season ("Er!"--"Wonder why it's caalled 'The Hive'?")
The anly thing that could scupper wor plans iz the fact that the torrential rain and gale force winds which have affected most of the UK iz set to continue for the next couple of days!
Some of the 'hoppers' are gettin' the train doon and some (like us daft f****rs!) are gannin' by road via the 'A1' (if it's not flooded that iz!?).
Lets hope that we aall get there!? (goggles and flippers at the ready!)
The game iz due to be played @ Underhill with a '7 bells' kick off! (Weather permittin'!) Match report to follow on Wednesday!---and if we DE make it---then! (see below!)
"Get the broon ale 'on ice' oot!"
'Mooth-waaterin' news that wor 'FA Youth Cup thord roond tie' against 'The Arses' youth team tooneet will definateleee be played @ Barnet's Underhill Groond and NOT 'The Emirates', az waz forst feared!, iz great news for the 'NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers', az 'Underhill' iz a groond we have neva (ever!) played on or been te before!
Wots more!---the north London 'Leegue Two' club will leave their home of 105 years and move on to 'pastures new' @ the end of this season---never! to retorn! and so (unless we draa them in the FA Cup) this will be wor one and anly chance to gan there!
'The Bees' are rumoured to be movin' to a groond caalled 'The Hive' in Harrow for next season ("Er!"--"Wonder why it's caalled 'The Hive'?")
The anly thing that could scupper wor plans iz the fact that the torrential rain and gale force winds which have affected most of the UK iz set to continue for the next couple of days!
Some of the 'hoppers' are gettin' the train doon and some (like us daft f****rs!) are gannin' by road via the 'A1' (if it's not flooded that iz!?).
Lets hope that we aall get there!? (goggles and flippers at the ready!)
The game iz due to be played @ Underhill with a '7 bells' kick off! (Weather permittin'!) Match report to follow on Wednesday!---and if we DE make it---then! (see below!)
SOOOTHAMPTON 2 THE TOON 0
Posted '10:10am bells' Monday 26th November 2012
"IT WAS ALL GOOD UNTIL IT KICKED OFF!"
An absoloootleee disastrous November continued @ St Mary's yesterday when we went doon 2-0 to a relegation threatened Sooothampton team who have been at or near to the bottom of the table since the beginnin' of the season.
The match stats speak for themsels:
Sooothampton had loads of chances throughoot the game and if it wasn't for Tim Krul in wor goal who made several vital saves the scoreline would have been much worse. (although he waz at fault for BOTH their goal!)
The home side aalso hit the woodwork three times az wor midfield and defence put in a shambolic display!
The anly action that we can remember in wor favour waz when Davide Santon nodded a bullet heeder towards the corner of their goal, anly to be denied by a fantastic block from their keeper!
Anita aalso shud have scored but fluffed hiz easy chance! (Cisse and Ba were totally ineffective!)
After the match we faced a one mile trek back to the train station in torrential rain and we were soaked to the skin by the time we got there to complete a day of misery! (It was then onward to Victoria Station and then King's Cross and we eventually crossed the King Edward Bridge ower the Tyne @ '12:45am bells' on Sunday mornin'!)
The result meens that we havvent won any of wor six games played in November and with anotha away game against 'The Pulis P*ss Potts of Stoke' loomin' on Wednesday neet, things divvint look good!---do they?
Toon team: Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Steven Taylor (Perch 90), Santon, Gutierrez, Tiote, Anita (Marveaux 65), Ferguson (Sammy Ameobi 46), Cisse, Ba
Attendance: 31,410 (2,000 or so very unhappy Toon fans!)
Wor manager 'I Beg Your Pardew' had the quote of the day---which just aboot summed it up!
"It was all good until it kicked off!"
"IT WAS ALL GOOD UNTIL IT KICKED OFF!"
An absoloootleee disastrous November continued @ St Mary's yesterday when we went doon 2-0 to a relegation threatened Sooothampton team who have been at or near to the bottom of the table since the beginnin' of the season.
The match stats speak for themsels:
Sooothampton had loads of chances throughoot the game and if it wasn't for Tim Krul in wor goal who made several vital saves the scoreline would have been much worse. (although he waz at fault for BOTH their goal!)
The home side aalso hit the woodwork three times az wor midfield and defence put in a shambolic display!
The anly action that we can remember in wor favour waz when Davide Santon nodded a bullet heeder towards the corner of their goal, anly to be denied by a fantastic block from their keeper!
Anita aalso shud have scored but fluffed hiz easy chance! (Cisse and Ba were totally ineffective!)
After the match we faced a one mile trek back to the train station in torrential rain and we were soaked to the skin by the time we got there to complete a day of misery! (It was then onward to Victoria Station and then King's Cross and we eventually crossed the King Edward Bridge ower the Tyne @ '12:45am bells' on Sunday mornin'!)
The result meens that we havvent won any of wor six games played in November and with anotha away game against 'The Pulis P*ss Potts of Stoke' loomin' on Wednesday neet, things divvint look good!---do they?
Toon team: Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Steven Taylor (Perch 90), Santon, Gutierrez, Tiote, Anita (Marveaux 65), Ferguson (Sammy Ameobi 46), Cisse, Ba
Attendance: 31,410 (2,000 or so very unhappy Toon fans!)
Wor manager 'I Beg Your Pardew' had the quote of the day---which just aboot summed it up!
"It was all good until it kicked off!"
Saturday 24 November 2012
SOOOTHAMPTON v THE TOON***ON SUNDAY!
Posted '5:10am bells' Saturday 24th November 2012
Today 'The Geordie Times' sets off for the sooth coast for wor leegue game 'The Saints' @ St Marys in Sooothampton
Bad weather iz predicted for the whole weekend and we can anly hope that the boozers we visit will have adequate protection from the elements!
Injurys have blighted wor squad and we can anly hope that the decision NOT to buy a few quality players in the close season doesn't come home to roost!---again!
Match report to follow on Monday! (sometime!)
Today 'The Geordie Times' sets off for the sooth coast for wor leegue game 'The Saints' @ St Marys in Sooothampton
Bad weather iz predicted for the whole weekend and we can anly hope that the boozers we visit will have adequate protection from the elements!
Injurys have blighted wor squad and we can anly hope that the decision NOT to buy a few quality players in the close season doesn't come home to roost!---again!
Match report to follow on Monday! (sometime!)
Friday 23 November 2012
THE TOON 1 MARITIMO 1
Posted '10:00am bells' Friday 23rd November 2012
Yet anothaa inept home performance from 'The Toon' meant that Bordeaux, who won 2-1 in Brugge, are now top of the group table, meanin' that we must win there on December 6th or finish 2nd and face the possibility of playin' one of the Champions Leegue 'dropouts' in the knockoot stage of the competition in February. (ie: we have DEFINATLEEE qualified!)
We took the lead at the mid-point of the forst half when Ben Arfa supplied 'Marveaux the Magician' and hiz shot went through the legs of the Maritimo keeper @ The Leazes End to send the smaall crowd into raptures!
But that waz az good az it got and the minnows from Madeira had chances to level things in the forst half but couldn't make the breakthrough.
The second half waz even worse than the forst with passes gannin astray and hardly any efforts on target from us.
Maritimo on the otha hand, fought hard for the equaliser and went close on a few occassions before finally gettin' their much deserved goal when Finlis (in a carbon copy of wor goal!) fired through Tim Krul's legs in the 80th minute to send their smaall band of 35 fans<(yes! we coonted them!) in the Milburn Stand paddock wild with delight!
They even had a great chance to win it when Finlis again, (me thinx?) shot wide when it waz much easier to score!
Toon team: Krul, Simpson, Steven Taylor, Coloccini, Santon, Marveaux, Bigirimana, Anita, Sammy Ameobi (Abeid 77), Ben Arfa (Ba 40), Cisse (Amalfitano 50)
Attendance: anly 21,632 (35 'Mari' fans!)
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| 'THE TOON' ATTACK THE LEAZES END! |
Yet anothaa inept home performance from 'The Toon' meant that Bordeaux, who won 2-1 in Brugge, are now top of the group table, meanin' that we must win there on December 6th or finish 2nd and face the possibility of playin' one of the Champions Leegue 'dropouts' in the knockoot stage of the competition in February. (ie: we have DEFINATLEEE qualified!)
We took the lead at the mid-point of the forst half when Ben Arfa supplied 'Marveaux the Magician' and hiz shot went through the legs of the Maritimo keeper @ The Leazes End to send the smaall crowd into raptures!
But that waz az good az it got and the minnows from Madeira had chances to level things in the forst half but couldn't make the breakthrough.
The second half waz even worse than the forst with passes gannin astray and hardly any efforts on target from us.
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| SPOT THE 'MARI' FANS!" |
They even had a great chance to win it when Finlis again, (me thinx?) shot wide when it waz much easier to score!
Toon team: Krul, Simpson, Steven Taylor, Coloccini, Santon, Marveaux, Bigirimana, Anita, Sammy Ameobi (Abeid 77), Ben Arfa (Ba 40), Cisse (Amalfitano 50)
Attendance: anly 21,632 (35 'Mari' fans!)
Thursday 22 November 2012
THE TOON v MARITIMO***TOONEET!
Posted '9:20am bells' Thorsday 22nd November 2012
Tooneet we play wor penultimate<(we naa aall the 'BIG' words!) game in the Europa Leegue group stage when we take on Maritimo @ St James' Park @ '8:05 bells'
A win against the groups bottom club will see us progress to the knockoot stage which begins in February and guarantee us 2nd place at least!
When we were in Belgium a fortneet back, we were taalkin to some Brugge fans after the game and they telt us that Maritimo hadn't brung ANY FANS AT AALL! when they'd played them at their place---so!---gannin on that assumption, and the fact that heavy rain and strong winds are forecast and that the game iz on live telly, (ESPN) we predict that this will be wor lowest crowd of the season, with less than 30,000 tornin up!
Squad rotation will again play a big part, so divvint expect the team who played in wor 'horror show' defeat against Swanzee in the Premya Leegue last Saturday to torn oot! (mebeez that's just az well!)
'Geordie Times' match report (az usual!) to follow sometime tomorrow!
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| ACTION FROM WOR GAME IN MADEIRA AGAINST MARITIMO IN SEPTEMBER ('THE TOON' ARE IN THE 'HI VIZ' YELLOW STRIPS!) |
Tooneet we play wor penultimate<(we naa aall the 'BIG' words!) game in the Europa Leegue group stage when we take on Maritimo @ St James' Park @ '8:05 bells'
A win against the groups bottom club will see us progress to the knockoot stage which begins in February and guarantee us 2nd place at least!
When we were in Belgium a fortneet back, we were taalkin to some Brugge fans after the game and they telt us that Maritimo hadn't brung ANY FANS AT AALL! when they'd played them at their place---so!---gannin on that assumption, and the fact that heavy rain and strong winds are forecast and that the game iz on live telly, (ESPN) we predict that this will be wor lowest crowd of the season, with less than 30,000 tornin up!
Squad rotation will again play a big part, so divvint expect the team who played in wor 'horror show' defeat against Swanzee in the Premya Leegue last Saturday to torn oot! (mebeez that's just az well!)
'Geordie Times' match report (az usual!) to follow sometime tomorrow!
Wednesday 21 November 2012
NUFC LATEST TICKET NEWS
Updated '8:15am bells' Thorsday 22nd November 2012
Tickets are still on sale for toneets home game against Maritimo (£15/£10 and a fiver!)
Ticket application forms for wor Europa Leegue game in Bordeaux on Thorsday December 6th are now open to season ticket holders with 50 loyalty points or more. @ just £13 a ticket (Premya Leegue clubs take note!)
In contrast, tickets which have just went on sale for wor Premya Leegue game in west London against 'The Wacko Jacko Jivers' on Monday 10th December are ower three times higher! @ £40 (£30 and £20 for zimmerframeites and sprogs!)
(now zero loyalty points)
For wor Boxin' Day games @ 'The Theatre of Muppets' (£45 plus concessions) and The Emirates (£35.50 plus concessions) on December 29th yoo aalso need 25 loyalty points to apply
Wor game @ Sooothampton iz nuw a selloot to Toon fans on Sunday. STOP PRESS! aparentleee we have been given some more tickets for Sunday and theeze are priced @ £35 plus concessions!
Tickets for wor game away to 'The Pulis P*ss Potts of Stoke' on Wednesday 28th November, are still on sale (£30 plus concessions)---zero loyalty points nuw required.
Home tickets for wor game against 'The Blue Moonies' on December 15th are now on sale az well
("ER!"---"hope yiv got plenty of money to buy aall theeze tickets!?")
Tickets are still on sale for toneets home game against Maritimo (£15/£10 and a fiver!)
Ticket application forms for wor Europa Leegue game in Bordeaux on Thorsday December 6th are now open to season ticket holders with 50 loyalty points or more. @ just £13 a ticket (Premya Leegue clubs take note!)
In contrast, tickets which have just went on sale for wor Premya Leegue game in west London against 'The Wacko Jacko Jivers' on Monday 10th December are ower three times higher! @ £40 (£30 and £20 for zimmerframeites and sprogs!)
(now zero loyalty points)
For wor Boxin' Day games @ 'The Theatre of Muppets' (£45 plus concessions) and The Emirates (£35.50 plus concessions) on December 29th yoo aalso need 25 loyalty points to apply
Wor game @ Sooothampton iz nuw a selloot to Toon fans on Sunday. STOP PRESS! aparentleee we have been given some more tickets for Sunday and theeze are priced @ £35 plus concessions!
Tickets for wor game away to 'The Pulis P*ss Potts of Stoke' on Wednesday 28th November, are still on sale (£30 plus concessions)---zero loyalty points nuw required.
Home tickets for wor game against 'The Blue Moonies' on December 15th are now on sale az well
("ER!"---"hope yiv got plenty of money to buy aall theeze tickets!?")
Tuesday 20 November 2012
OVERSEAS--IZ THE 'BEES KNEES'!*** 20,000 THANKYOOZ!
Posted '1:25pm bells' Tuesday 20th November 2012
'The Geordie Times' haz just received it's 20,000th page view from overseas today and we thank each and every one of wor foreign friends for loggin' into this site!
Not anly that!---but today we aalso received wor 7,000th 'hit' from wor reeeders across the pond in the USA!---and their usual 'Empire State Building celebrations' have started aalready!-----that's 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'!
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| "GEORDIE TIMES RULES OK!" |
'The Geordie Times' haz just received it's 20,000th page view from overseas today and we thank each and every one of wor foreign friends for loggin' into this site!
Not anly that!---but today we aalso received wor 7,000th 'hit' from wor reeeders across the pond in the USA!---and their usual 'Empire State Building celebrations' have started aalready!-----that's 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'!
GROOND 293***BRUGGE AWAY REPORT AT LAST!
Posted '10:00am bells' Tuesday 20th November 2012
In the run up to wor last European home game this year against Maritimo on Thorsday, the full match and drink report against Brugge in Belgium nearly a fortneet ago haz finalleee been completed (at last!) and iz published below
In the run up to wor last European home game this year against Maritimo on Thorsday, the full match and drink report against Brugge in Belgium nearly a fortneet ago haz finalleee been completed (at last!) and iz published below
293 JAN BREYDEL STADION, BRUGGE, BELGIUM
(GROUND NUMBER 293)
Date of First Visit: 8th November 2012
JAN BREYDEL STADION, BRUGGE,
BELGIUM
CLUB BRUGGE 2
NEWCASTLE UNITED
2 (Anita, Shola
Ameobi)
Ameobi)
Europa League Group D
Attendance: 18,003 (2,600 Toon fans in the away
section plus just az many ‘hidin’ in the home
sections PLUS! anotha 3,000 who were unable to
get tickets who watched the match on big screens
in the centre of Brugge!) (11,000 empty seats!!!)
section plus just az many ‘hidin’ in the home
sections PLUS! anotha 3,000 who were unable to
get tickets who watched the match on big screens
in the centre of Brugge!) (11,000 empty seats!!!)
Day One: Wednesday
“WHO ARE YOU?”
Meesel and ‘The Caped Crusader’ caught the nine
bells train from ‘The Central’ to King’s Cross and
then ‘onward’ by Eurostar from St Pancras (which
iz reet next door) to Brussels, where we were
basin’ worsels for two neets
bells train from ‘The Central’ to King’s Cross and
then ‘onward’ by Eurostar from St Pancras (which
iz reet next door) to Brussels, where we were
basin’ worsels for two neets
After dumpin’ wor bags in wor hotel we met up
with ‘Colonel Gaddafi’ (that’s reet he’s STILL
alive and livin’ in Bracknel, Berkshire!) and we
heeded for ‘the night life’, where, menacingly
there were gangs of kids of African dissent
hangin’ aroond the street corners givin’ us ‘dodgy
looks’ az we made wor way doon to where the
bars were from wor hotel, which waz aboot a ten
minute walk from the train station (‘The Caped
Crusader’ had been mugged in Brussels by some
of them a few years orlier when we played
Lokeran!)
with ‘Colonel Gaddafi’ (that’s reet he’s STILL
alive and livin’ in Bracknel, Berkshire!) and we
heeded for ‘the night life’, where, menacingly
there were gangs of kids of African dissent
hangin’ aroond the street corners givin’ us ‘dodgy
looks’ az we made wor way doon to where the
bars were from wor hotel, which waz aboot a ten
minute walk from the train station (‘The Caped
Crusader’ had been mugged in Brussels by some
of them a few years orlier when we played
Lokeran!)
Anyway!---we arrived at the forst ‘waaterin hole’
where the beer waz 10%! which iz twice az strong
az wot we normally drink!
where the beer waz 10%! which iz twice az strong
az wot we normally drink!
‘The Colonel’ said he had met a couple of the
regular away travellers on the Eurostar but couldn’
recall one of their names, although he could
remember that ‘Blondie Alan’ waz one of them!
He tried to describe the other one and said that we
knew him well.
regular away travellers on the Eurostar but couldn’
recall one of their names, although he could
remember that ‘Blondie Alan’ waz one of them!
He tried to describe the other one and said that we
knew him well.
He described that he had a ‘tash’ and waz built
like a ‘brick sh*t hoose’ but we couldn’t ‘picture’
just who he waz on aboot!
like a ‘brick sh*t hoose’ but we couldn’t ‘picture’
just who he waz on aboot!
There waz a roond beer mat on the table and so aa
took it and said to ‘The Colonel’ “Can you draw a
photo fit picture of him?” He nodded and so aa
gave mee expensive ‘Parker Pen’ (which looks
remarkably like the ones yi get in ‘Ladbrokes
bookies’!) and he started sketchin away!
took it and said to ‘The Colonel’ “Can you draw a
photo fit picture of him?” He nodded and so aa
gave mee expensive ‘Parker Pen’ (which looks
remarkably like the ones yi get in ‘Ladbrokes
bookies’!) and he started sketchin away!
When he’d finished, his ‘artists impression’
looked like it waz sketch of ‘Adolf Hitler’(see top
photo!) but az we divvint naa ANYBODY who
looks like this we were completleee ‘stumped’!
(apart from ‘Adolf’ that iz!)
looked like it waz sketch of ‘Adolf Hitler’(see top
photo!) but az we divvint naa ANYBODY who
looks like this we were completleee ‘stumped’!
(apart from ‘Adolf’ that iz!)
Anyway! ---‘The Caped Crusader’ had a
brainwave and decided to phone ‘Blondie Alan the
Morris Dancer’ up to find oot just who wor
‘mystery man’ actually waz! (“Er!”---a message to
‘Blondie’---“there’s NE hidin place from ‘your
past!’---‘Morris Dancer’ it iz!)
brainwave and decided to phone ‘Blondie Alan the
Morris Dancer’ up to find oot just who wor
‘mystery man’ actually waz! (“Er!”---a message to
‘Blondie’---“there’s NE hidin place from ‘your
past!’---‘Morris Dancer’ it iz!)
Straight away he telt us that wor ‘mystery man’
WAZZZ!?----‘THE BEAR!’ who DOESN’T have
a ‘tash’ and haz a shaven heed!---unlike hiz ‘photo
fit’, complete with flowin’ locks’ and ‘Hitler
moustache’!
WAZZZ!?----‘THE BEAR!’ who DOESN’T have
a ‘tash’ and haz a shaven heed!---unlike hiz ‘photo
fit’, complete with flowin’ locks’ and ‘Hitler
moustache’!
“It looks nowt like him!” we said in unison az
‘The Colonel’ cowered behind the table!
‘The Colonel’ cowered behind the table!
Anyway!---we moved on to a few more boozers
before heedin’ back to the hotel on the ‘Brussels
Undergroond’ (we wernt takin’ any chances on
waalkin back!)
PS: We hord later on that some Toon fans had
been attacked with lumps of wood with nails in
them in the red light district of Brussels and
were mugged!
One lad got stabbed and two ended up with broken bones!
before heedin’ back to the hotel on the ‘Brussels
Undergroond’ (we wernt takin’ any chances on
waalkin back!)
PS: We hord later on that some Toon fans had
been attacked with lumps of wood with nails in
them in the red light district of Brussels and
were mugged!
One lad got stabbed and two ended up with broken bones!
Day Two: Match Day
“A BRIDGE TOOO FAR!”
Next mornin’ we were up with the larks and
heeded back to the station to catch the train to
Brugge, which waz an hours ride away. The were
a few Toon fans on it and they were drinkin’
merrily az the train sped alang!
heeded back to the station to catch the train to
Brugge, which waz an hours ride away. The were
a few Toon fans on it and they were drinkin’
merrily az the train sped alang!
On arrival in Brugge we avoided the packed main
square full of Toon fans, where a big screen had
been erected for those without match tickets and
heeded for some bars ‘off the beaten track’!
square full of Toon fans, where a big screen had
been erected for those without match tickets and
heeded for some bars ‘off the beaten track’!
The bars aroond the square were aall sorvin’ beer
oot of plastic glasses at extoshanite<(Geordie
Times spellin’!) prices, but the ones we foond had
‘propa’ ones to drink oot of at reasonable prices!
(two reasons to avoid the main square!)
oot of plastic glasses at extoshanite<(Geordie
Times spellin’!) prices, but the ones we foond had
‘propa’ ones to drink oot of at reasonable prices!
(two reasons to avoid the main square!)
Eventually!—we heeded in the direction of the
groond back through the main square where the
police presence had quadruplet since we forst
waalked through and thoughts of bein’ held there
against wor will, went through wor minds and so
we made A SHARP exit to anotha boozers on the
otha side, oot the way!
groond back through the main square where the
police presence had quadruplet since we forst
waalked through and thoughts of bein’ held there
against wor will, went through wor minds and so
we made A SHARP exit to anotha boozers on the
otha side, oot the way!
We then decided to heed nearer to the ground az
police vans and horses aall of a sudden suroonded
the square in a well planned ‘pincer movement’!
(ie: it waz F*****’ time to get oot!)
police vans and horses aall of a sudden suroonded
the square in a well planned ‘pincer movement’!
(ie: it waz F*****’ time to get oot!)
We decided to heed for the hotel where ‘Big Al’
and ‘Sarnie Steve’ were stoppin’ across the river
which cuts Brugge in two---anly to confronted by
a line of ‘dibbles’ blockin’ the picturesque bridge,
complete with castles!
and ‘Sarnie Steve’ were stoppin’ across the river
which cuts Brugge in two---anly to confronted by
a line of ‘dibbles’ blockin’ the picturesque bridge,
complete with castles!
“Wor hotels on the otha side of the bridge!” ‘Big
Al’ said, az he pointed to it in the distance, But
they still wouldn’t let us pass and threatened to
arrest us IF we didn’t de az we were told! And
pointed us in the direction of the city centre---and
so we had to de a three qwaata of a mile detour
across another bridge near to the train station to
get ower the river!
Al’ said, az he pointed to it in the distance, But
they still wouldn’t let us pass and threatened to
arrest us IF we didn’t de az we were told! And
pointed us in the direction of the city centre---and
so we had to de a three qwaata of a mile detour
across another bridge near to the train station to
get ower the river!
The hotel they were stoppin’ in had a bar and we
decided to stop there til it waz time to gan to the
match---which we were telt waz a twenty minute
waalk away from the hotel---WRANG!---it waz
much fortha and az the local ‘dibble’ (bless em!---
NOT!) had banned Toon fans from usin’ busses or
taxis to get to the game, it waz ‘shanks’s pony’to
the stadium! (Wot a way to be treated—“EH!”)
decided to stop there til it waz time to gan to the
match---which we were telt waz a twenty minute
waalk away from the hotel---WRANG!---it waz
much fortha and az the local ‘dibble’ (bless em!---
NOT!) had banned Toon fans from usin’ busses or
taxis to get to the game, it waz ‘shanks’s pony’to
the stadium! (Wot a way to be treated—“EH!”)
Havin’ got through FIVE ticket security checks
(that’s reet!--- FIVE!) we eventually got into the
stadium with ten minutes to spare, but we were the
lucky ones az quite a few missed the kick off!
(that’s reet!--- FIVE!) we eventually got into the
stadium with ten minutes to spare, but we were the
lucky ones az quite a few missed the kick off!
Az expected there were thousands of empty seats,
which begs the obvious question---“why wernt we
given more???
which begs the obvious question---“why wernt we
given more???
Brugge took the lead in the 14th minute through
Ivan Trickovski who shot past Tim Krul in the
Toon goal and doubled their tally just six minutes
later when Jesper Jorgensen hit an effort just
inside the post in front of the Toon fans!
Ivan Trickovski who shot past Tim Krul in the
Toon goal and doubled their tally just six minutes
later when Jesper Jorgensen hit an effort just
inside the post in front of the Toon fans!
We fought back however!, when Anita hit a right
foot screamer into the Brugge goal in the 41st
minute and Shola Ameobi levelled things just two
minutes later when he stabbed the baall home after
he received a through baall from hiz younger
brother Sammy, to send the Toon fans wild with
delight! (the forst time incedentleee, that two
brothers had started a MAJOR European game
together for The Toon!) (Matty and Richie
Appelby had both featured for us in the Anglo
Italian Cup back in 1992!)
foot screamer into the Brugge goal in the 41st
minute and Shola Ameobi levelled things just two
minutes later when he stabbed the baall home after
he received a through baall from hiz younger
brother Sammy, to send the Toon fans wild with
delight! (the forst time incedentleee, that two
brothers had started a MAJOR European game
together for The Toon!) (Matty and Richie
Appelby had both featured for us in the Anglo
Italian Cup back in 1992!)
In the second period we nearly won it when
Sammy ‘Ami’ hit the bar with a great shot, but
there waz ne more scorin’ in the game and after
bein’ locked in for half an hour (when!-- before
the match, we had been telt that we would be let
straight oot!) we were eventually let oot for some
post match ‘liquid refreshments’ and heeded to a
bar we had passed on the way up where some very
drunk Toon fans had been watchin’ the match on
the telly.
Sammy ‘Ami’ hit the bar with a great shot, but
there waz ne more scorin’ in the game and after
bein’ locked in for half an hour (when!-- before
the match, we had been telt that we would be let
straight oot!) we were eventually let oot for some
post match ‘liquid refreshments’ and heeded to a
bar we had passed on the way up where some very
drunk Toon fans had been watchin’ the match on
the telly.
One waz SO inebriated that he’d stripped off and
waz runnin’ roond the bar with nowt on! The
barmaid however, waz not impressed with the size
of hiz ‘yee naa wot’ and said sommik in
Flemish/Belgian/Dutch? that! (usin’ mee vast
knowledge of International languages!) aa
deciphered to meen! (YES!—yiv guessed it!)
That he waz a big DICK with a little P****!
waz runnin’ roond the bar with nowt on! The
barmaid however, waz not impressed with the size
of hiz ‘yee naa wot’ and said sommik in
Flemish/Belgian/Dutch? that! (usin’ mee vast
knowledge of International languages!) aa
deciphered to meen! (YES!—yiv guessed it!)
That he waz a big DICK with a little P****!
We then heeded back to the hotel where ‘Sarnie
Steve’ and the rest were stayin’, and a Toon fan
telt us that hiz mate had been nicked by ‘the local
dibble’
Steve’ and the rest were stayin’, and a Toon fan
telt us that hiz mate had been nicked by ‘the local
dibble’
“Wot for?”—we asked
“He got to the fourth checkpoint and waz asked
once again to show hiz ticket, but he must have
dropped it at the previous one and so they arrested
him for attemptin’ to get into the match without a
ticket!!!"
once again to show hiz ticket, but he must have
dropped it at the previous one and so they arrested
him for attemptin’ to get into the match without a
ticket!!!"
(HONEST!---IT’S F*****’ TRUE!!!)
It waz then back to Brussels late on and we
eventually ‘retired’ in the orly hours
“ZZZZZzzzzz!!!!!”
eventually ‘retired’ in the orly hours
“ZZZZZzzzzz!!!!!”
Day Three: Friday
“TIME TO GAN YEM!”
An orly train from Brussels to St Pancras and the
onward back yem from King’s Cross next mornin’
meant that we were back for ‘two bells’ on Friday
afternoon for a few ‘liquids’ with the lads in 'The
Hotspur', before catchin’ the bus yem and yet
anotha European adventure waz ower and (of
course!) anotha groond ‘off the list’!
onward back yem from King’s Cross next mornin’
meant that we were back for ‘two bells’ on Friday
afternoon for a few ‘liquids’ with the lads in 'The
Hotspur', before catchin’ the bus yem and yet
anotha European adventure waz ower and (of
course!) anotha groond ‘off the list’!
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