HALLOWEEN 2014 REVISITED*** "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPIN' IN MY BED?"

Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 31st October 2108

Below iz the 'classic' archive report from wor home game against 'The Liverbirds' 4 years ago!

We make ne apologeez whatsoever for 'digging it up' again!

"GO HIGH OCTANE IN OCTOBER!"

Posted '2:20pm bells' Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Updated '2:15pm bells' Thorsday 25th October 2018
Updated '1:20pm bells' Munday 29th October 2018

'The Geordie Times' iz leadin' the fightback against the 'Go Sober in October' campaign that iz heavily advertised on the telly, radio, tabloids and mags, to stop people drinkin for the month of October!
These individuals wernt content with 'Dry January' where people didn't drink in that month and now they've started on October!---what next we ask?--- 'No bevvies in February's' or 'Lets go dry in July!'
So we've started a "GO HIGH OCTANE IN OCTOBER!" campaign to help stem the rapid decline of wor traditional pubs before its too late!

Did you naa that 18 pubs a week are shuttin' doon because of people not usin their local boozers, which works oot at staggerin' 936 a year!

And these 'Go sober' do gooders are tryin to make it worse!
Wor '100 away pub crawl challenge' where we are tryin to visit a 100 away pubs durin' this season, iz well under way and we have visited a total of 62 different pubs/clubs since wor forst game of the season at Barrow in Furness in July!

THE FIGHTBACK IZ ON! (see away pub crawl pix article below!)

THE SIMON TEMPLAR MOB 0 THE TOON 0 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2018-2019

Posted '11:11am bells' Sunday 28th October 2018 ("Aye, aa remembered to put mee clocks back!")
Updated Munday '12:56pm bells'

THE TOON ARE IN THE LIGHT BLUE STRIP

"LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE!"
(6 trains, 4 tubes and 2 taxis!)

This woz the jorney from hell if ever there woz one in this 700 miles roond trip to the south coast!
Forst of aall, aa dragged mee lifeless body oot of bed at '4am bells' and jumped into a taxi from wor hoose, to catch the '5:26 bells' train from 'The Central' to King's Cross in London 
Because of a train strike on the line between Waterloo in London and Sooothampton we decided cross London by 2 tube trains to catch a train from Paddington to Reading and then onward to wor final destination!

"WET! WET! WET!"

On wor jorney from Paddington to Reading, a lass waalked doon the train with a very hot cup of waataa---and az she waalked past one of the lads, who shall remain nameless, called 'Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer', she spilt it aall ower hiz legs and 'private parts'!
He jumped up in agony shoutin' "F***** HELL!"--F***** HELL!" several times in shock, az she apologised and apologised, az we rolled aboot with laughter, az he looked like he'd p*ssed himself! 😅

"TAKIN' THE P*SS!---GEORDIE TIMES EXCLUUUUSIVE!

The lass had wanted the hot waata to put on some porridge she'd bought and improvised by pourin a cup of coffee into the bowl to mix the porridge!!!! (Yi couldn't make it up!)

We were lucky (apart from Blondie!) and everything else went to plan az we arrived at Sooothampton Central some six hours after leavin' the Toon and heeded for the nearest waaterin hole (The Giddy Bridge) for some much needed 'liquid lubrications'!

THE GIDDY BRIDGE

Others wornt so lucky, az they tried to get there via Waterloo station and got stuck half way az the train woz overloaded to burstin point!
(They eventually arrived 1 hour after us!)

2 more waaterin holes later and it woz time too heed for 'wor punishment' at St Mary's Stadium!---and 'punishment' it woz az we failed to have even one shot on target in the entire game!
Soloman Rondon finally made an appearance after a lang injury, half way through the 2nd half, but even he couldn't hit the target in one of the most borin' games yoo could wish to watch, which not suprizingleee ended in a goalless draw (Sooothampton were shockin' az well!)

The one point gained actually lifted us off the bottom of the table and anly two points from safety, az aall the teams around us lost---some of them heavily!
By wor recognin' 5 teams are in 'the mix' for relegation----'uddersfield, Cardiff, Fulim, Sooothampton and 'US'!

We reversed the train, tube, train and taxi jorneys on the way back, eventually arrivin' yem at '12:30am bells'! 

Footnote: Simon Templar woz a character in a cult 1960s TV programme caalled 'The Saint'!, which of course iz Sooothampton's nickname---hence 'The Simon Templar Mob'----get it?

Team line ups and more pix to follow later, when aa get time---like! (Oot on 'the hoy' very soon!)

MUCH LATER!
Toon team: Dubravka, Yedlin, Lascelles, Fernandez, Dummett, Richie, Shelvey, Diame (Ki76), Kenedy, Perez (Rondon 69), Muto (Atsu 80)

Attendance:30,736 (2,450 OR 2,500 very bored Toon fans!---not sure?)

*More pub crawl pix

Sooothampton

Sooothampton

London after game

London after game

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"IT WOZ 50 YEARS AGO TODAY!---AA WENT AWAY TO SEE NEW-CAS-IL PLAY"

Posted '3:00pm bells' Friday 26th October 2018

Fifty years ago today at this time ('3pm bells'), az a wide eyed skoolkid, aa went to mee forst 'lang distance' away game, when we played Liverpool at Anfield at the height of Beatle mania!
A match report from that game half a century ago iz printed below ("Now where did aa put mee zimmer frame?")

Ground  number 3
"She loves you!,yeah!-yeah!-yeah!"

THE TOON U23s v THE SMOGGIES U23s **** TOONEET @ SJP

Posted '12:57pm bells' Friday 26th October 2018

Tooneet at HQ NUFCs U23 side take on The Smoggies equivalent in a Premyaa Leegue 2 match!

Kick off iz at '7 bells' and az per usual, anly The East Stand will be open for Toon fans (and Smoggies if they bring any?)

Season ticket holder get in for nowt of course and it's £3 for big kids and £1 for sprogs and zimmerframeites withoot season tickets!

Update: lost 3-1 in front of 709 fans!

THE SIMON TEMPLAR MOB v THE TOON *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2018-2019

Posted '2:05pm bells' Thorsday 25th October 2018

"TRY AND FIND 3 TEAMS WORSE THAN US!"

'Rafa the Gaffa' came ooot with the above statement on Saturday after wor 5th home defeat 'in a row' against Brightin, but aall of us are wonderin' after a total of TEN winless games 'in a row' in Leegue and Cup, if there reeely ARE 3 worse teams than us, az we sit anchored to the foot of the table!

These are desperate times indeed after wor worst start in wor lang history, gannin back az far az the 19th century---and we will make the 'painful' 350 mile jorney to the south coast on Saturday, hopin against hope that wor luck will change!

With train strikes between London and Sooothampton, it will indeed be a 'painful' jorney with a skeleton rail service on offer!

We leave on the '5:26am bells' train from 'the Central' on Saturday mornin' and will arrive at wor destination 'at god naaz wot time'?

We have sold wor entire allocation of 2,450 ticket which iz actually 700 less than we were given last season!


A full Geordie Times match and booze report will appear here az per usual sometime on Sunday (train strikes permittin'!)

*Simon Templar woz a character in the 1960s cult TV series 'The Saint'!    
'The Simon Templar Mob'='The Saint'=Sooothampton's nickname---get it!?


*A Geordie Times archive report on mee forst ever visit to Sooothampton's old groond, 'The Dell' 49 years ago in 1969 and anothaa report from 1984 are featured in the next article below!

DALES DIARY DATE FOR HEEDBANGERS!

Posted '1:40pm bells' Tuesday 23rd October 2018

GATESHEED PLAYERS POSE WITH SOME 'HEEDBANGERS' 

BEFORE THEIR GAME AT DUNSTON

Gatesheed's reward for beatin' 'The Bad Blue Boys of Dunston' in The FA Cup last Saturday iz a trip to sunny Rochdale in deepest Lancashire, just off the M62 motorway for a forst roond tie!

The game will be played on the weekend 9th to 12th of  November and 'The Heedbangers' are sure to have a large followin' from Tyneside! (However! unlike the Dunston game, it iz very unlikely that the game will be live on the telly!)

BAD BLUE BOYS 0 THE HEEDBANGERS 4 *** FA CUP 4th PRELIMANARY ROOND

Posted '1:30pm bells' Munday 22nd October 2018

The Dunston Bad Blue Boys played their biggest game in their history at Federation Park (aka UTS Stadium) when they took on near neighbours The Heedbangers of Gatesheed on Saturday!

Az the game woz scheduled for '12:30 bells' for a live TV stream from the BBC, we had time to gan to that game and heed for St. James' Park across the Tyne 3 miles away for NUFCs '3 bells' kick off v Brightin!

A mammoth crowd of 2,520 (Dunston's average gate iz 250!) torned oot and were 3 deep around the pitch az the game kicked off!
Az 'I'd been in the clubhouse beforehand, mee usual standin place when aa come here woz taken and aa woz forced to watch the match through a crowd of heeds from the back!

The crowd woz a mixture of Dunston and Gatesheed fans with ne segregation, mainly to the fact that many Gatesheed fans live in Dunston anyway!

The occasion torned oot to be too much for the home side and the vistors took the lead at 'The Tea Hut End' through Gregg Olley with a shot that somehow trickled into the net!
It woz soon 2-0 to Gatesheed when Stephen Rigg fired home and 3-0 bang on half time through Scott Bowden az The National Leegue side ran riot against their Northern Leegue
opposition! (4 leegues below)

The game woz been shown on the big screen in the clubhoose and aa watched some of the 2nd half there with a bottle of broon for company before heedin back to mee standin position at the back

THE HEEDBANGERS BEHIND THE GOAL SET OF

A SMOKEBOMB WHEN THEY SCORED THEIR 4th GOAL!

It woz  4-0 to Gatesheed through Luke Molineux in the 78th minute and it woz 'game ower' az far az Dunston were concerned!

A MINT CONDITION CRUMBLED TEAM SHEET!

It woz then onward to SJP and we made the kick off there with 3 mins to spare!
(SEE 'DOOM AND GLOOM'MATCH REPORT IN NEXT ARTICLE DOON!)

More pix 

THESE 2 STUPID 'FREEBEEZ'

 COULD HAVE WALKED IN

AZ THE GATES WERE OPEN IN THE 2nd HALF

WHEN THIS PHOTO WOZ TAKEN!

"HEED ARMY ON TOUR!" (WITH PLAYERS!)

SING ON THE 

STORAGE CONTAINER!

SOME OF THE 'HEEDBANGERS'!

DUNSTON TEAM ON FINAL WHISTLE

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THE TOON 0 BRIGHTIN 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2018-2019

Posted '11:00am bells' Sunday 21st October 2018

THE JONJO SHELVEY FREE KICK, WHICH 

THE BRIGHTIN KEEPER SOMEHOW SAVED!

"NO HOPE!---JUST HOPELESSNESS!"

This woz a 'bad day at the office' for certain az The Geordie Times did a 'double heeder', takin in Dunston's game v Gatesheed in the FA Cup and then a 'mad dash to St James' for wor game v Brightin ----more on that FA Cup game later, but forst we must concentrate on yet anothaa home defeat for NUFC!

We just made the kick off az the mini bus we had booked from Dunston, which woz supposed to torn up at '2:25 bells', didn't torn up til 10 mins later and then had to torn around in heavy traffic from people leavin the game---(AND the nearby Metro Centre!) and we eventually left with just 20 mins to kick off time!
Luckily the Redheugh Bridge across the Tyne woz clear of traffic and we were dropped off ootside the groond with less than 10 mins to spare!

A mad scramble oot the mini bus then followed and mee plan woz to get the lift up to mee seat on 'level 7' of The Milburn Stand to save time, but there woz a queue, so I 'legged it' up the 200 stairs to the top and took mee seat, completlee oot of breath (I'm not a 'spring chicken' any more!), with just 3 mins to kick off ! (not bad considerin' we left Dunston so late!)

THE STREET VIEW FROM THE TOP

OF THE MILBURN STAND

Unfortunately, it woz 'the same old story' az we dominated the forst half but came off 2nd best az wor visitors took the lead on the half hour mark with a deflected goal!

1st half action az we attacked 

The Gallowgate End

The second half 'highlight' woz a Jonjo Shelvey free kick which woz brilliantly palmed away by the Brightin keeper, but we just couldn't get the goal that we desorved and for the FIFTH time in a row we lost at home (SIX if yoo include wor pre season friendly v Jawman side, Ausburg)
Joselu who came on az a sub had a shot that nearly hit the corner flag---this just aboot sums up wor plight!

With Cardiff's forst win of the season filterin' through we now sit in rock bottom place with ne wins and just 2 points from 27 in 9 Premyaa Leegue games!

'The Fat Controller' woz there again to witness anothaa defeat and even he must now realise that unless we spend a fortune in the January transfor window, then we are certainly doomed to a thord spell in the Championship under hiz disastrous 11 years tenure!
(Even then it might be tooo late!)
Pleeeeze sell up Mike and give us wor great club back--- "PLEEEZE!"

Toon team: Dubravka, Yedlin, Lascelles, Fernandez, Dummett, Ritchie, Diame, Shelvey, Kenedy, Perez, Muto (Joselu 73)

Attendance: 50,329 (1,600 happy Brightin fans who saw their team win away for the forst time in nearly a year!)

*A report on the Dunston v Gatesheed game will now follow tomorrow, az av got to gan oot on 'the hoy' very soon!

THE TOON v "NE WHERE NEAR" BRIGHTIN *** SATURDAY AFTERNOOON

Posted '2:00pm bells' Thorsday 18th October 2018

ST. JAMES' PARK

Havin' not won a competitive game since the end of last season, NUFC gan into the weekend game in desperate need of 3 points!

3 of wor next 4 games are at home and we reeely must get sommik from them or else we will be in deep deep trouble! (or shud that be deeper trouble!)

Rumours that yet anothaa very rich consortium iz puttin' in a bid for the club simply divvint wash anymore and it looks likely that we will be stuck with 'The Fat Controller' for a considerable time more!

Soloman Rondon iz STILL not fit to play and so a forward line of eethaa Joselu and Perez OR Muto and Perez looks to be the options Rafa haz for the game!
Kenedy looks set to start but Ciaron Clark looks doubtful

Ironically tickets are still on sale for this match, while "ower the waataa" in Dunston, 3 miles away, their game v Gatesheed in the FA Cup iz a complete selloot, with every one of the 2,500 tickets sold! (the groonds capacity)

AND 3 MILES AWAY!

FEDERATION PARK, DUNSTON (aka: UTS STADIUM)

The Geordie Times and many Toon fans will be at that game which kicks off at '12:30 bells' and then rush ower The Redheugh Bridge for wor '3 bells' kick off @ SJP! (a 10 minutes drive away)

A match report on both games will appear here sometime on Sunday!


Footnote: Brightin's groond iz in a place caalled 'Falmer' and iz "Ne where near Brightin"---hence wor name for them!
"Ower the waataa" meenz "Across the river Tyne" in Geordie slang

BAD BLUE BOYS RECORD CROWD PREDICTED!

Posted '2:43pm bells' Wedinzday 17th October 2018

With 2,000 tickets aalready sold, oot of 2,500, 'The Bad Blue Boys' of Dunston are expectin the biggest crowd in their history, when they take on 'The Heedbangers' of Gatesheed in the FA Cup 4th prelimanary roond this Saturday dinnaatime!
('12:30 bells' kick off and live on BBC stream)
There will be NO pay gates and the remainin' tickets are on sale @ The Dunston clubhoose today and tomorrow<(if there are any left?) from '5 to 7 bells' 

For those of yoo who divvint naa, Dunston iz in the west end of Gatesheed and they play in 'The Northern Leegue 1st Division' (level 9 in the Pyramid), while Gatesheed from 'The National Leegue' (level 5 in the Pyramid) hail from the east end of the town.

'The Bad Blue Boys' are the lowest ranked team still left in the competition and 'top marks' to them for not puttin' up their prices for admission (£6 and £3) and the match programme iz just a quid! (Food and drink iz the same price az for a usual Northern Leegue game, az well!) (Guisley, for example, are chargin' £13 admission for their FA Cup game!)


Dunston's groond iz just 3 miles from St. James' Park and the plan iz to hire a 16 seater mini bus to whisk us across the Tyne to watch NUFC play a vital 'must win' game v Brightin in the Premyaa Leegue at '3 bells'

(The Dunston game should finish by '2:20 bells' (hopefully!?) which gives us ample time to make the kick off at SJP (Fingers and toes crossed!)

It should be quite a hectic day on Tyneside!

Updated '11:15pm bells' in Manchester (night truck run depot!)
Anly 160 tickets left for Dunston game!
You'd better be quick if you want one!

TELLY DATES FOR DECEMBER AND JANUARY

Posted '1:54pm bells' Munday 15th October 2018

Ootside The Geordie Times HQ

The telly fixtures for December and January were released on Friday and news of this haz just reached The Geordie Times by carrier pigeon (4 days late!) (wot did yoo expect?)

4 NUFC games have been picked!

December 2018
Sunday 9th: Wolves @ SJP @ '4 bells' on SKY

January 2019
Wedinzday 2nd: Moan U @ SJP @ '8 bells' on SKY
Saturday 12th: Chelski @ Stamford Bridge @ '5:30 bells' on BT
Tuesday 29th: Man C @ SJP @ '8 bells' on BT

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BILLY TOON 1 DUNSTON BAD BLUE BOYS 3 *** FA VASE

Posted '11:37am bells' Sunday 14th October 2018

JAKE STAFFORD (RED 4) SCORES DUNSTON'S EQUALISER

It woz declared 'Non Leegue Day' in the north east az aall the leegue clubs were not playin coz of the International break!

We heeded for Billingham near Middlesbrough to watch Dunston (on the Dunston team bus!) and arrived at '1:30 bells' where we heeded to the clubhoose!  ( where else?)

Soon it woz time to heed into the groond where a tidy crowd of aroond aboot 250 were assembled, includin aboot 70 Bad Blue Boys supporters!

Billy Toon are in the leegue below Dunston and took a shock lead in the minute when Flounders fired in!
Bang on half time The Bad Blue Boys (playin in aall red!) produced an equaliser from a great free kick from just ootside the box by Jake Stafford----and we went to the clubhoose at the break in boystrous mood!

The Bad Blue Boys, who were unbeaten this season took the lead in the 55th minute when Liam Brooks prodded the baall home!

2-1 to THE BAD BLUE BOYS IN RED! (LIAM BROOKS)

It woz 'curtains' for 'Billy' not lang after when Dunston added a 3rd through 'Brooksy' to progress to the next roond of the 'Vase'!

3-1 to DUNSTON AZ PLAYERS CELEBRATE (BROOKSY AGAIN!)

A good day oot on 'Non Leegue Day' and a canny crowd for Billy Toon (they normally get 100 or so)

BILLINGHAM'S 'STATE OF THE ART'

INFORMATION BOARD!

DUNSTON'S AWAY FOLLOWIN' INCLUDED A BLACK 'N' WHITE COLLIE!

"SING IN THE BUS STOP!"

IT EVEN HAD THE BUS TIMES TO STOCKTON AND BEYOND!

(ME 'FINKX' THEY MIGHT HAVE A LANG WAIT!)

NON LEEGUE DAY! ****** THIS AFTERNOOON!

Posted '3:11am bells' Saturday 13th October 2018 (after a nightshift truck run to Manchester!)

BEDFORD TERRACE, HOME OF BILLINGHAM TOON FC  

WITH SMOGGIELAND IN THE DISTANCE!

With nee Premyaa Leegue or Championship futbaall to gan te because of the 2nd International break of the season (wot!---aall ready?) Saturday haz been declared "Non Leegue Day" where fans of leegue clubs are asked to support their local non leegue clubs on the day!

There are quite a few local games to gan te involvin Tyneside and Northumberland clubs and we list them below:

Aall kick offs '3 bells'!

FA Trophy:
Morpeth v Brighoose Toon

FA Vase:
Hebburn v City of Liverpool
Billy Toon v Dunston Bad Blue Boys
Nelson v Ashington Pit Yaakers
The Terriers of Bedlington v Whickham (wanderers!)

Northern Leegue:
Newton Aycliffe v North Sheeelds
Whitley Baywatchers v Newcasil Benfield
Jarraa v Ryton
West Allotment Celtic v Crook Toon
Heaton Stan v Redcar

There are aalso a number of games in the Northern Alliance
www.northernfootballalliance.org.uk 

We are optin to gan to Billingham, where 'The Bad Blue Boys of Dunston' are playin Billy Toon in the FA Vase ---and a match report on that game (plus pix) will appear here on Sunday!

TOON TRAIN TROUBLE!

Posted '1:37pm bells' Friday 12th October 2018

News that South West Trains are to strike on the very day that 'The Toon' are away to Sooothampton in 2 weeks time haz reached us!
It doesn't affect wor train trip to London on the east coast line to King's Cross, but now we cant get from Waterloo station to the south coast by train!

It's bad enough havin' to de this 700 mile roond trip withoot the hastle of tryin to find anothaa way to Sooothampton from London!

It could aanly happen to us!---couldn't it just!

We will keep yoo, wor loyal reeeders updated on how we are gannin to get there now!

Az per usual---"Watch this space!"

THE QWAATAA OF A THOOSAND CLUB!

Posted '3:55pm bells' Thorsday 11th October 2018

On this day 13 years ago aa visited mee 250th groond followin' 'The Toon'. It woz a NUFC Academy X1 v Ryton Academy at Kingsley Park, Crawcrook

Below iz an archive match report on that game 
(Kingsley Park---ground number 250)