DAN'Z THE MAAN!

 Posted 5:22pm bells Tuesday 31st May 2022

NUFC finally got wor maan!

MAGICAL MYSTERY PUB CRAWL TOUR 2021-2022 (PART 3)

 Posted 'high noon 'bells' Sunday 29th May 2022

PART 3***September 2021*** 12 PUBS VISITED***RUNNIN TOTAL 25

Below are the pubs we visited last September on wor away travels last season

By the end of September we had clocked up a quarter century of pubs----but just how many will be the total by the end of the season?----Continue to "watch this space!" to find oot! 

 

WOTFAAD U23s v NUFC U23s (ST ALBANS)

14: ROYAL GEORGE, EUSTON, LONDON

 

15: THE HORN, ST ALBANS

 

16: ROBIN HOOD, ST ALBANS

 

17: ST ALBANS CLUBHOOSE, ST ALBANS (DESERTED!)

 

*MAN U v NUFC

18: CATHEDRAL GATE, MANCHESTER

 

19: SINCLAIRS OYSTER BAR, MANCHESTER

20: SOCIETY, MANCHESTER

*WATFORD v NUFC

21: THE ROCKET, EUSTON, LONDON

22: WELLINGTON ARMS, WATFORD

23: ESCORT ARMS, WATFORD

24: GOLDEN LION, WATFORD

25: NORTHUMBERLAND ARMS, KING'S CROSS, LONDON

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FORST FRIENDLIES ANNOONCED

 Posted 'high noon 🔔 bells' Saturday 28th May 2022

2 pre season friendlies have been conformed!

Atlantic from Italy and Athletic Bilbao from  Spain will play at SJP at the end of July!---ticket details awaited!

We expect that some away friendlies will be annoonced very soon!

So az per usual: "Watch this space!"

MAGICAL MYSTERY PUB CRAWL TOUR 2021-2022 (PART 2)

 Posted '2:00pm🔔 bells' Friday 27th May 2022

PART TWO***AUGUST 2021*** 1 PUB VISITED *** RUNNIN TOTAL 13

Below iz the ONE and anly away boozer we visited on wor away travels in August 2021 (Nee 1st team away games)

Like we said previously, we havvint got a clue just how many we visited in the 2021-2022 season in total!

Next one, September 2021 in a couple of days!!

*BIRMINGHAM U23s v NUFC U23s, (IN NUNEATON)

013: BORO SPORTS BAR, NUNEATON

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MAGICAL MYSTERY PUB CRAWL TOUR 2021-2022 (PART ONE)

 Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 25th May 2022

PART ONE***JULY 2021***12 pubs visited

Below iz a list of boozers that The Geordie Times visited on wor travels with The Toon in July 2021

Aall the games were pre season friendlies

We havvint got a clue just how many away pubs we have visited in the 2021-2022 season

We will publish the pubs visited month by month every few days

York City v NUFC

001: Winning Post, York

002: Corner Pin, York

Donny Rovers v NUFC

003: Doncaster Brewery Tap, Doncaster

Darlo v NUFC U23s

004: Hole in the Wall, Darlington

005: Quakerhouse, Darlington

006: Darlington clubhoose, Darlington

007: Number Twenty 2 Coniscliffe, Darlington

008: Cock Inn, Darlington

Rotherham v NUFC

009: Bluecoat, Rotherham

Burton v NUFC

010: Weighbridge, Burton

011: Lord Burton, Burton

012: Alfred, Burton

THE BORNLEY HILLBILLIES 1 THE TOON 2 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2021-2022

 Posted '5:00pm bells' Munday 23rd May 2022

"A SEASON OF TWO HALVES!"

Before NUFC played Leeedz, on January 22nd we had won just ONE solitary game aall season oot of 20 played and looked certain for relegation az we sat in 19th place in the table with 12 points

Fast forward 4 months to May 22nd at '6: 00 bells' and we have now won an amazin 12 more games and a total of 49 points, to finish in 11th position and have picked up an amazin 37 more points in the process!

Truly remarkable!

Wor day started of at 'The Central' (station) where we caught a train to Durham, where Jimmy the Riddler gave us a lift to Hebden Bridge (10 miles from Bornley) where we were stayin for the neet!

Another train ride from Hebden to Bornley followed and we heeded for the forst boozer called 'NEW BREW-M'    The real ale bitters were just £2 a pint and so (az yi dee!) we decided to stop there til it woz time to gan to the match!

The Bornley fans were nervous, but aalso 'up for it' az they cheered their team onto the pitch---but The Toon fans were aalso in good voice and we gave az good az we got!

It woz aall NUFC in the openin exchanges az we attacked the far goal from where we were. In the 11th minute Joelinton went doon and had to be carried off on a stretcher, to be replaced by Murphy. The breakthrough came in the 20th minute when a Kieran Trippier corner woz needlessly handled by Bornley's Collins and after a VAR check and a monitor check by the ref, a penalty woz given!

Callum Wilson took it and sent Pope in the Bornley goal the wrang way az he planted the baall to the right side of the goal!   This silenced 'The Hillbillies' (Bornley iz surronded by hills!), while The Toon fans celebrated wildly!

That woz the score at the break and the 2nd half started just like the forst with The Toon on the attack towards wor own fans!

A 2nd goal happened in the 60th minute when Callum Wilson had a simple tap in from a Saint Maximin cross to break Bornley hearts az Leeedz were drawin at Brentfaad, meenin' that Bornley would be relegated if the scores stayed the same!

"ANY IDEA WHO SCORED WOR SECOND GOAL, MATE?"

They pulled a goal back in the 70th minute through Cornet to give the home side hope, but they couldnt find the equaliser and Leeedz then scored in the last minute to seal The Hillbillies fate!

12 wins and 1 draw since January 22nd iz wot dreams are made of and NUFC would be in a Europa Cup position (5th) if the season had started then!

Like we said at the top of this article, this woz a season of two halves---the forst half despair with Broken Nose Bruce and The Fat Controller, and the 2nd half revival with Steady Eddie and the PIF!

Dead simple---if the takeower had never happened, we would surely have been relegated a lang time ago!

Roll on 2022-2023! 

Attendance: 21,361 (2,350 Toon fans)

*The post match pub crawl started back in The New Brew-M and then we heeded for Todmorden on the train (on the way back to Hebden Bridge)

THE WHITE HART, NEAR TODMORDEN TRAIN STATION

Before gannin back to Hebden Bridge for the neet time 'gargels' 

FOOTNOTE: Aaltogether NUFCs 1st team have played 40 competitive games this season and 'The Geordie Times' haz been to everyone!

Lasts season NUFC played 43 competitive games, but because of Covid, 'The Geordie Times' anly did ONE game (v Sheffield United at SJP when 10,000 fans were allowed to attend)---The other 42 were played behind closed doors, apart from Fulim away, when anly 2,000 home fans were allowed to attend!