HULL CITY v THE TOON X1*** FRIENDLY*** TOMORROW AFTERNOOON!

 Posted '2:10 pm bells' Friday 26th July 2024

MKM STADIUM, HULL

"IN RESERVE!"

NUFC play wor forst pre season friendly at Hull on Saturday and aall 4,500 tickets allocated have been sold!---But beware!----The team iz likely to feature several U21 and junior player because of absentees!

Callum Wilson, Lewis Miley, Matt Targett, Jamaal Lascelles and Sven Botman will be missin', while Lloyd Kelly, Joe Willock and Tino Livramento are unlikely to feature!

On top of that and because of International service, Kieran Trippier, 'Fab' Schar, Anthony Gordon, Martin Dubravka, Miggy Almiron and Bruno were granted extra time off, but should be on the plane to Japan on Sunday for 2 games in Tokyo!

And of course Sandro Tonali iz still sorvin hiz ban for gamblin'!

That's 15 (FIFTEEN!) forst team players who will probably be unavailable for the Hull game!

And az usual in pre season ‘kick abouts’, up to 20 players could be used!

A Geordie Times match report will appear here sometime on Sunday!

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

NUFC V SAFC average gates***1893 to 2024***131 YEAR RECORD (NOW UPDATED FROM LAST SEASON)

Updated just after ‘high noon bells' Thorzday 25th July2024

THE ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, LORD BERESFORD
KICKS OFF THE 1904 DERBY MATCH @ ST JAMES' PARK
(LEAZES TERRACE (left) AND ST JAMES' STREET (right) 
ARE IN THE BACKGROOND)

NUFC v SAFC (average league attendances)

'The Geordie Times' haz  published below the average leegue attendances of both clubs from 1893 to 2024, startin' from 1893-1894 season and endin' on the current season, to date.
Obviously, because of 'The Bat Out Of Hell' coronavirus, the season finished for safc in March 2020!
In NUFC's case, aall Premyaa Leegue home games are/were behind closed doors after this---and in safc's case the Leegue One season woz abandoned! So average attendances are anly given up til March 2020! 

Season 2020-2021 woz played behind closed doors apart from one game for each club where 10,000 were admitted, so no average attendances for last season!

The SMBs claim that they are az loyal az The Toon fans and that they can match us in crowd figures throughoot the last 130 years of leegue futbaall between us!

Lets see if they are reet?---The SMBs joined The Futbaall Leegue in 1890 and NUFC joined in 1893 and so the average attendance figures are from the 1893-1894 season az we have ne NUFC data before that time.
Attendance figures are independant and are taken from three sources---'The Association of Football Statisticians', 'European Football Statisticians' and the excellent book, 'Through the Turnstiles', which gives every average gate for every club who have ever played in The Futbaall Leegue! (figures may differ slightly, dependin' on where yi look!)

Key: White=nufc best supported in that season
         Pink=safc best supported in that season


The Nineteenth Century---
Seasons 1893-1894 to 1899-1900
1893-1894---nufc 3,525---safc 6,890---0-1 to safc
1894-1895---nufc 4,155---safc 8,250---0-2 to safc
1895-1896---nufc 7,255---safc 6,210---1-2 to safc
1896-1897---nufc 8,130---safc 5,160---2-2
1897-1898--nufc 11,545--safc 10,970--3-2 to nufc
1898-1899--nufc17,390--safc12,540---4-2 to nufc
1899-1900--nufc16,445--safc11,265---5-2 to nufc

The start of the Twentieth Century
to the 1st World War---
Seasons 1900-1901 to 1914-1915
1900-1901--nufc 15,575--safc11,695---6-2 to nufc
1901-1902--nufc 14,450--safc12,905---7-2 to nufc
1902-1903--nufc 17,540--safc15,305---8-2 to nufc
1903-1904--nufc 17,565--safc13,670---9-2 to nufc
1904-1905--nufc 21,605--safc14,510--10-2 to nufc
1905-1906--nufc 22,765--safc13,015--11-2 to nufc
1906-1907-nufc*33,235--safc15,450--12-2 to nufc
1907-1908--nufc 27,875--safc17,470--13-2 to nufc
1908-1909--nufc 29,300--safc15,235--14-2 to nufc
1909-1910--nufc24,825--safc11,615--15-2 to nufc 
1910-1911--nufc25,055--safc16,650--16-2 to nufc
1911-1912--nufc24,995--safc12,555--17-2 to nufc
1912-1913--nufc24,935--safc17,940--18-2 to nufc
1913-1914--nufc24,710--safc20,865--19-2 to nufc
1914-1915--nufc14,545--safc10,230--20-2 to nufc

*WORLD RECORD!---nufc were the forst club in the world to have average gates of ower 30,000!

In the 1914-1915 season both clubs average gates dropped by 10,000 az many fans had went off to fight in the 1st World War!
The leegue waz then suspended from 1915-1916 to 1918-1919 because of the war. 

Inter War Years
Seasons 1919-1920 to 1938-1939
1919-1920--nufc38,390--safc25,580--21-2 to nufc
1920-1921--nufc41,265--safc28,765--22-2 to nufc
1921-1922--nufc34,860--safc24,150--23-2 to nufc
1922-1923--nufc27,085--safc23,070--24-2 to nufc
1923-1924--nufc26,865--safc23,475--25-2 to nufc
1924-1925--nufc24,325--safc20,440--26-2 to nufc
1925-1926--nufc29,957--safc21,399--27-2 to nufc
1926-1927--nufc36,510--safc18,142--28-2 to nufc
1927-1928--nufc30,195--safc21,411--29-2 to nufc
1928-1929--nufc31,667--safc25,196--30-2 to nufc
1929-1930--nufc32,559--safc24,553--31-2 to nufc
1930-1931--nufc26,151--safc22,015--32-2 to nufc
1931-1932--nufc30,336--safc23,131--33-2 to nufc
1932-1933--nufc25,992--safc17,254--34-2 to nufc
1933-1934--nufc24,142--safc18,269--35-2 to nufc
1934-1935--nufc20,081--safc25,397--35-3 to nufc
1935-1936--nufc19,483--safc30,378--35-4 to nufc
1936-1937--nufc24,430--safc28,670--35-5 to nufc
1937-1938--nufc21,276--safc25,132--35-6 to nufc
1938-1939--nufc32,693--safc21,740--36-6 to nufc

From 1939-1940 to 1945-1946 the leegue waz suspended due to The 2nd World War

Mid Twentieth Century
Seasons 1946-1947 to 1969-1970
1946-1947--nufc49,379--safc35,301--37-6 to nufc
1947-1948-nufc*56,283--safc42,888--38-6 to nufc
1948-1949--nufc53,839--safc45,220--39-6 to nufc
1949-1950-nufc46,468--safc*47,785--39-7 to nufc
1950-1951--nufc46,651--safc39,766--40-7 to nufc
1951-1952--nufc50,476--safc39,853--41-7 to nufc
1952-1953--nufc44,521--safc39,767--42-7 to nufc
1953-1954--nufc45,392--safc42,505--43-7 to nufc
1954-1955--nufc42,925--safc43,043--43-8 to nufc
1955-1956--nufc37,666--safc35,888--44-8 to nufc
1956-1957--nufc35,202--safc36,145--44-9 to nufc
1957-1958--nufc36,241--safc36,146--45-9 to nufc
1958-1959--nufc39,458--safc27,772--46-9 to nufc
1959-1960--nufc36,037--safc22,831--47-9 to nufc
1960-1961--nufc26,500--safc26,051--48-9 to nufc
1961-1962-nufc27,946--safc32,986--48-10 to nufc
1962-1963-nufc31,634--safc40,883--48-11 to nufc
1963-1964-nufc29,435--safc41,258--48-12 to nufc
1964-1965-nufc35,659--safc40,637--48-13 to nufc
1965-1966-nufc33,793--safc34,488--48-14 to nufc
1966-1967-nufc32,081--safc31,731--49-14 to nufc
1967-1968-nufc37,239--safc30,873--50-14 to nufc
1968-1969-nufc34,016--safc25,426--51-14 to nufc
1969-1970-nufc37,553--safc21,790--52-14 to nufc

*WORLD RECORD!---nufc were the forst club in the world to have average gates of ower 50,000 (both 'The Arse' and 'Man U' both averaged ower 50,000 az well in that season, but we reached that average, forst!) 
Unbeleeeviblee!, nufc were in the old 2nd Division at the time, and this iz STILL! a WORLD RECORD for any club ootside the 'top flight', to this day!

*safc record average gate 

Mid to Late Twentieth Century
Seasons1970-1971 to 1999-2000
1970-1971-nufc29,735--safc15,780--53-14 to nufc
1971-1972-nufc32,664--safc15,906--54-14 to nufc
1972-1973-nufc27,939--safc22,603--55-14 to nufc
1973-1974-nufc32,861--safc24,409--56-14 to nufc
1974-1975-nufc34,614--safc29,931--57-14 to nufc
1975-1976-nufc33,060--safc31,250--58-14 to nufc
1976-1977-nufc33,599--safc32,743--59-14 to nufc
1977-1978-nufc24,729--safc22,276--60-14 to nufc
1978-1979-nufc20,494--safc25,454--60-15 to nufc
1979-1980-nufc23,345--safc27,119--60-16 to nufc
1980-1981-nufc16,001--safc26,477--60-17 to nufc
1981-1982-nufc17,276--safc19,608--60-18 to nufc
1982-1983-nufc24,116--safc17,370--61-18 to nufc
1983-1984-nufc29,811--safc16,180--62-18 to nufc
1984-1985-nufc26,228--safc18,347--63-18 to nufc
1985-1986-nufc23,434--safc16,052--64-18 to nufc
1986-1987-nufc24,792--safc13,601--65-18 to nufc
1987-1988-nufc21,059--safc17,425--66-18 to nufc
1988-1989-nufc22,921--safc14,878--67-18 to nufc
1989-1990-nufc21,590--safc17,987--68-18 to nufc
1990-1991-nufc16,834--safc22,577--68-19 to nufc
1991-1992-nufc21,148--safc18,390--69-19 to nufc
1992-1993-nufc29,048--safc17,260--70-19 to nufc
1993-1994-nufc33,679--safc16,934--71-19 to nufc
1994-1995-nufc34,690--safc15,344--72-19 to nufc
1995-1996-nufc36,507--safc17,482--73-19 to nufc
1996-1997-nufc36,466--safc20,865--74-19 to nufc
1997-1998-nufc36,680--safc33,492--75-19 to nufc
1998-1999-nufc36,690--safc38,745--75-20 to nufc
1999-2000-nufc36,333--safc41,375--75-21 to nufc

Early Twenty forst Century
Seasons 2000-2001 to 2022-2023
2000-2001-nufc51,309--safc46,791--76-21 to nufc
2001-2002-nufc51,373--safc46,744--77-21 to nufc
2002-2003-nufc51,923--safc39,698--78-21 to nufc
2003-2004-nufc51,966--safc27,120--79-21 to nufc
2004-2005-nufc51,844--safc28,820--80-21 to nufc
2005-2006-nufc52,032--safc33,904--81-21 to nufc
2006-2007-nufc50,686--safc31,887--82-21 to nufc
2007-2008-nufc51,330--safc43,344--83-21 to nufc
2008-2009nufc*48,750--safc40,168--84-21to nufc
2009-2010-nufc43,388--safc40,355--85-21 to nufc
2010-2011-nufc47,718--safc40,011--86-21 to nufc
2011-2012-nufc49,936--safc39,095--87-21 to nufc
2012-2013-nufc50,517--safc40,544--88-21 to nufc
2013-2014-nufc50,395--safc41,090--89-21 to nufc
2014-2015-nufc 50,359--safc43,157--90-21 to nufc
2015-2016-nufc*49,790--safc43,071--91-21 to nufc
2016-2017-nufc 51,106--safc 41,287--92-21 to nufc
2017-2018-nufc 51,992--safc 27,635--93-21 to nufc
2018-2019-nufc 51,121--safc32,157--94-21 to nufc
2019-2020-nufc 48,248--safc30,118--95-21 to nufc

It should be noted that nufc gave 10,000 free season tickets away, starting from the Everton game on 28th December 2019. Before that wor average gates were 46,049, so nufc were still 16,000 ahead of safc, even before the free tickets giveaway!

2020-2021 Aall games played behind closed doors because of covid, apart from 1 game each, where 10,000 were allowed to attend!-So 2020-2021 season iz not counted

2021-2022-nufc51,487--safc33,062--96-21 to nufc

2022-2023-nufc52,127--safc38,658--97-21 to nufc 

2023-2024-nufc52,153–safc41,028–98-21 to nufc

*WORLD RECORD/and *NEW WORLD RECORD average gates for a relegated club!---
These relegation totals are aalso higher than the SAFC RECORD average gate of 47,785 in the 1949-1950 season!
In total NUFC have beaten the SAFC record average gate 25 times!

"Put THAT! in your pipe and smoke it!"

"CONCLUSION!?---WE LEAVE TO DRAW YOUR OWN! CONCLUSIONS!!!???

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SpVgg UNTERHAGHING 1. THE TOON 3 *** FRIENDLY (BCD)

 Posted just after ‘high noon bells 🔔 Sunday 21st July 2024

An unannooced pre season friendly took place on Friday near wor trainin camp in Jawmany!

NUFC won 3-1 with goals from Barnes, Murphy and Isak in the forst half! SpVgg replied from the penalty spot through Skarlatidis!

2 comletleee different teams play in each half!

We bring yoo this news 2 days late!

But wot did yoo expect? This iz The Geordie Times!

We bring yoo aall the news second hand, first!

THE UNDERTAKER AND LIAM FROM THE LAMP---- A FEW 'GARGELS' IN THEIR MEMORY!

 Posted just after 'high noon bells' Saturday 20th July 2024

Friends of The Undertaker and Liam from The Lamp (The Big Lamp on Westgate Road) will meet in 'The 5 Swans' boozer opposite the civic centre at '2:00pm bells' for some drinks in their memory, to remember the tragic events that unfolded 10 years ago this week! 

(See article below)

Everyone iz welcome, even those who never met them!

They may be lost but they are not forgotten! RIP LADS!

THE UNDERTAKER AND LIAM FROM THE LAMP *** LOST BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN!

Posted '2:00am bells' Wedinzday 17th July 2024

THE 'ALDER SWEENEY' MEMORIAL GARDEN' AT ST. JAMES' PARK

On this day 10 years ago John Alder 'The Undertaker' and Liam Sweeney 'From the Lamp' were on their way to New Zealand to watch The Toon in pre season friendlies.
They never got there az their plane waz shot doon ower The Ukraine and they perished alang with nearly 300 others!


They may be lost but they will NEVER! be forgotten by those who knew them well (like me) and those who had never met them!

RIP Lads!

STATEMENTS FROM NUFC, AMANDA, MEHRDAD and JAMIE REUBEN

 Posted ‘12:27 pm 🔔 bells’ Saturday 13th July 2024

AMANDA *** THE REAL ANGEL OF THE NORTH!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Thorzday 11th July 2024

The sad news that Amanda Staveley and hor husband Mehrdad are to leave the board of NUFC reaches us!

Amanda woz the main instigator in the PIF buyin' wor great club from 'The Fat Controller' in October 2021 and will aalways be remembered for deein' this by the Toon faithful!

She iz the REAL 'Angel of the North' and not that rustin' monstrosity that sits high on a hill in southern Gatesheed next to the A1!

Here's wishin' you and Mehrdad the best of luck in your next venture!---You are legends!

Amanda!--you are Tyneside's 'First Lady' and you will NEVER be forgotten for savin' wor club from the mire!

IT'S SQUEEEEKY BUM TIME FOR ING-ER-LAND!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 10th July 2024

The 3 Lions play Holland tooneet for a place in the Euro final v Spain next Sunday!

I will be drivin back from Redditch at that time in mee truck and will listen intentleee on mee radio!----(The roads WILL be quiet for a change!)

And 'The Geordie Times' forecast iz that it cud gan eeethaa way!

Watch this space for wor reaction to the result!

Updated at Woodall services on the M1 10:33pm bells

“BRING ON THE SPANYAADZ!

🤪👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

"AND SO IT BEGINS!"------NUFC TELLY GAMES FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBAAA!

 Posted '4:00pm bells' Saturday 6th July 2024

The forst live telly fixtures have been released and of course wor forst away game on wor langest trip of the season to Bournemoooth, a 750 miles roond trip, haz been moved to a kick off time that will make it very difficult to dee it on pubic transport, with just one owerneet stay!

It kicks off at '2:00pm bells on SUNDAY 26th August, which meeenz its impossible to get there on the day of the match and most probably impossible to get back yem after the match!

So a 2 NEETS expensive hotel stay looks like the unpreferred option!

And just to hoy a spanner into the works, there iz 'line work' between London and Bournemoooth on the day of the match, meeenin that a 'dreaded' 'replacement bus sorvice' will be in operation!

Last season wor game there kicked off at '5:30pm bells', which again made it impossible to dee it in one day!----So much for considerin' the travellin' fans!----One year on and---"Nowt haz changed!"----HAZ IT?

Wor Premyaa Leegue fixture changes for August and September are listed below!

AUGUST 2024

Saturday 17th @ '3:00 bells': The Simon Templar Mob of Sooothampton @ SJP (nee telly)

Sunday 25th @ '2:00 bells': Bournemoooth @ The Vitality Stadium (SKY)

SEPTEMBAA 2024

Sunday 1st @ ???: Sporz @ SJP (SKY) (Kick off time not given yet?)

Sunday 15th @ '4:30 bells': Wolverhampton Wanabeez, @ Molineux (SKY)

Saturday 21st @ '3:00 bells': Fulim @ SJP (nee telly)

Saturday 28th @ '12:30 bells': The Blue Moonies of Manchester @ SJP (TNT)

Fixture changes for Octobaa onwards, to be contoured

Posted just before the Ingland v Switzerland game from The Leazes End Companions boozer in the shadows of SJP

PREDICTION

I WANT INGLAND TO WIN BUT DIVVINT ‘FINK’ THEY WILL!

HONESTLY I HOPE I HAVE 🍳 EGG ON MY FACE AT FULL TIME! 🕰️ 🙏🏻

FULL TIME!

  

ASHes TO ASHes!

 Posted '2:45pm bells' Friday 5th July 2024

Paul Mitchell iz wor new Sportin' Director and Dan ASHworth iz nee more!

The PIF own NUFC and Mike ASHley iz nee more!

The original 'NEWCASTLE UNITED' sign on The East Stand roof haz replaced the horrible and crappy italic Sports Misdirect sign, which iz nee more!

It's a weird coincidence that the two men who aall Toon fans despise the most, have ASH az the forst part of their surname!---They are both DUST! az iz the sign, which iz now in the DUSTbin!

"ASHES TO ASHES!--D*** ** ****!" <(Fill in the missin' letters'!)

NEW PM IN OFFICE AALREADY!

 Posted 6:45pm 🔔 bells’ Thorzday 4th July 2024

A new sporting director haz been appointed by NUFC to replace Ashworth the snake 🐍 

by the name of Paul Mitchell

WOR NEW PM!

Welcome to The Toon Paul

NUFC PRE SEASON FIXTURES UPDATE

 Posted '3:33pm bells' Friday 28th Joon 2024

News that wor 1st team are due to play a Friendly away to Hull City on Saturday July 27th at '2:00pm bells' have been reveeeld! 

Then its off to Japan for 2 friendlies on Wedinzday 31st July v Urawa Red Diamonds at Saitama Stadium and then on Saturday 3rd August we play Yokohama F Marios at the National Stadium in Tokyo!

Then a day later, back on home soil, on Sunday 4th August wor U21s are off to Soooth Shields for wor forst ever visit to the 1st Cloud Arena in a '1;00 pm bells' kick off friendly!

NUFC have said that corporate hospitality packages are available for the Sela Cup on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th August at SJP---although there are nee details yet, of just who? we are playin on those dates??

Then a week later the Premyaa Leegue starts with a home game v newly promoted Sooothampton on Saturday 17th August at '3:00pm bells'

PS: There iz nee news aboot a possible friendly in Jawmany where NUFC are in a pre season trainin camp!

The Geordie Times will of course keep yoo, wor loyal subjects, posted on any developments on this!

Az per usual—“Watch this space!”

EFL TROPHY DRAW TODAY

 Posted from 'high noon bells' onwards, Thorzday 27th Joon 2024

*The draw for the EFL Trophy aka (Bristol Street Motors Trophy) takes place this afternoon live on SKY SPORTS NEWS

16 Premyaa Leegue U21 teams will play teams from Leegue One and Two

NUFC U21s are in the Northern Section draw and could get any group above

NUFC are number 6 , which tex place at ‘2:30 bells 🔔’

‘The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers’ have been to aall but 2 of the above home grounds watchin The Toon— They are Salford City (Group ‘B’) and Fleetwood Town (Group ‘D’)

It would be great to get one of them in the draw!🙏🏻

We will update this az soon az we find oot wot group we are in!

Az per usual ‘Watch this space!’

*UPDATED ‘3:00 pm 🔔 bells’

NUFC have been drawn in Group ‘F’ v Mansfeeeld, Rothaaham and Braadfaad City!   Been to them aall before!—-NOT wot 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' wanted!😢

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INGLAND 0 SLOVEEENYAAA 0 "ZZZZzzzz!!!"

 Posted 12:56pm bells' Wedinzday 26th Joon 2024

"ZZZZZzzzzz!!!!"

I'm one of the very lucky ones!----Because of work commitments aa had to listen to the Ingland game on mee trucks radio at Redditch and on the M42 near Bormingham!---Those of yoo who watched must have been pullin yih hair oot!

The fact that Anthony Gordon woz anly given 4 minutes to prove himself at the end of the game iz criminal!----And then to send him for the interview afterwards to face the music and explain the shockin performance, iz even more criminal!

Soothgate woz pelted with plastic cups and bottles at the end of the game az he came ower to applaud the fans who hadnt pissed off by this time!

Onto the next stage on Sunday, where aa will be unlucky enough to watch on from a boozer somewhere in The Toon, az a'm off work that day!  ("Dear gaffa---iz there any chance of a trip to Redditch on Sunday---like!")

INGLAND 1 THE DANISH BACON BRIGADE 1

 Posted ‘1:11pm 🔔 bells’ Friday 21st Joon 2024

KANE’S GOAL AT WOOLLY EDGE SERVICES

“HEADS IN A SPIN! (DRYER!”)

England expected but the team didn’t deliver!

By amazin’ coincidence aa saw Harry Kane’s goal ⚽️ at Woolly Edge services on the M1, az aa woz walking 🚶 past the telly to Greggs for a cup of coffee! ☕️ 

By the time a got back to mee truck in the truck park and switched on the radio, Denmark 🇩🇰 had equalised!

The co woman commentator then said the immortal words! “ENGLAND HEADS ARE IN A SPIN!’—“ITS LIKE THEYVE BEEN INSIDE A TUMBLE DRYER!”  Now wot the hells a ‘tumble dryer’, like?

Aa wonder if wor lass naaz????

A poor 2nd half and we were lucky to get away with a draw in an aaful performance!

Thank God aa couldn’t watch THAT!

(And why oh why didn’t Southgate bring Anthony Gordon on to run doon the wing and supply the crosses???)🤔

TOON FIXTURES RELEASED FOR NEW SEASON!

 Posted '1:00pm bells' 🔔 Tuesday 18th Joon 2024

The Premyaa Leegue fixtures have just been published and they have been sort of kind to us travellin Toon fans!

We start off with a home game v newly promoted Sooothampton and then the longest away trip of the season to Bournemoooth!(Get it oot the way!)

Xmas and New Year doesn’t look bad eethaa with a home game v Villa on Boxin Day and an away game v Man U just before new year’s day! (wor 2nd nearest away game after Man City!)

We have 3 midweek home games and just one midweek away game! (The Liverbirds in February)

Amazingly we will play Evaatin away on a weekend day (unless they move it to a Friday or Munday neet)( We normally play them midweek away)

Wor last home game iz against Ipswich Toon, who will probably have been relegated by then!

Of course the vast majority of them will be moved for live telly, so divvint book owt yet, like!

IN COMPLETE CONTRAST! ⬇️

HOWAY INGLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

 Posted just after 'high noon bells' Munday 27th Joon 2024

Congrats to Ingland on their 1-0 win ower Serbeeeaaa last neet in Gelsenkirchen! (Been there with The Toon--got the Tee shirt!)

Watched it in the hoose, great forst half---crap second half!

Kieron Tripper played, but Anthony Gordon, who woz one of the subs didn't get on!----Next stop, 'The Danish Bacon Brigade' on Thorzday in Frankfurt! (Aalso been there to watch The Toon!---got the Tee Shirt from there az well!)

And spare a thought for the daft Ingland fans who got dreanched to the bone in Times Square in The Toon, payin a tenner each to get in and £7 a pint in a thin plastic container to watch it on the giant screen! (Are they completleee mad---or wot?) ⬇️

TOOK THIS PHOTO OF 'TIMES SQUARE' ON THE BUS YEM!

(NAMED AFTER 'THE GEORDIE TIMES' OF COURSE!---HONEST!)

  

THE BIG SCREEN AT MEE ‘LOCAL’ 

PS: IT WOZ MUCH DRYER IN WOR HOOSE, LIKE!)

SEND FOR KELLY!

 Posted ‘3:30pm bells’ Thorzday 13th Joon 2024

Wor first signin of the new season haz put pen to paper!

25 year old Lloyd Kelly haz signed a 5 year deal and will officially join NUFC on July 1st

He’s a left sided central defender and comes on  ‘free’ after his Bournemoooth contract expired

Welcome to The Toon Lloyd!

HAPPY BORTHDAY TO ME!---"IT'S WOR CUP!!!"

Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 12th Joon 2024


FRANKIE CLARK & BOBBY MONCUR PARADE THE CUP IN
FRONT OF THE WEST STAND & CENTRE PADDOCK
-----I'M IN THE CENTRE PADDOCK (SOMEWHERE!?)
(Even 'The Dibble' were clappin'!)
"NEE 'SOCIAL DISTANCIN' IN THOSE DAYS!"

The Fairs Cup celebrations continued from the previous day (see below) when we paraded the coverted silverware aroond St James' Park.

One home made banner made oot of a tatty bed sheet and hand written in black paint summed it up: "IT'S WOR CUP!", the banner proclaimed!

Aa was somewhere in the Centre Paddock that day and it was a very special day for me for it was aalso mee 15th borthday!

It is STILL to this day the best borthday 'present' that a'v ever had!
("Er!"---"It shouldn't be tooo hard to work oot how old I am today!? <("quick!---pass mee zimmerframe!")
Clue: It iz mee 'treble 21st plus 7'!

Fink (the mad-sad groundhopper!)

"HAPPY BORTHDAY TO ME!"

FAIRS CUP WINNERS!---55th ANNIVORSARY!---TODAY!

Posted 'high noon bells' Tuezday 11th Joon 2024

On this day 55 ago 'The Toon' won the old Inter Cities Fairs Cup in the Hungarian capital of Budapest by beatin' Ujpest Dozsa 3-2 on the day and 6-2 on aggregate, after wor 
3-0 forst leg win a fortneet orlier .

I was still a schoolkid at the time and me and mee mate 'Billy the Skin' listened to the final on a crackly old valve radio in his bedroom of his muthaaz hoose as the game wasn't televised live.

It didn't look 'ower clever' by half time as we were two-nowt doon, but as the 2nd half started, Bobby Moncur vollied in to pull one back and Ujpest just collapsed after that.

Benny Arentoft got wor equaliser soon after  and then Alan Foggon got the winner from a rebounded shot off himsel? as the radio commentator screamed his heed off:"IT'S A GOAL!--IT'S A GOAL!", he shouted at the top of his voice, above the 'crattles' of the radio, and it was 'game ower' as the ref blew the final whistle soon after! 

The bedroom floor nearly collapsed as we jumped up and doon on the creakin' floorboards in jubulation, as, (just like the radio commentator) WE shouted at the top of WOR VOICES as well!

We celebrated wor win by runnin' doon nearby Whickham Highway wavin' an NUFC flag and a huge 'Rangers' 'William of Orange banner' depictin' a gadgie wearin' a funny lookin' hat, ridin' a white horse, (would you believe!) which Billy had 'half inched' as a souviner from the policehut at 'The Leazes End', after we'd played and beaten Rangers in the Fairs Cup semi final @ St James Park in May! 
(At the time we didn't have a clue aboot the 'significance ' of the sectarian nature of the banner---we were just schoolkids after aall!)

Some very puzzled motorists on the road nearly crashed their cars when they seen us!, but they 'didn't have a clue eetha' just wot we were dein', as we sang and danced and waved the huge banner! (which we could hardly lift as it was so heavy!)
"AAAHHH! BRILLIANT MEMORIES!"

BLAYDON RACES 162nd ANNIVORSARY---TODAY!

Updated 'high noon bells' Sunday 9th Joon 2024


Geordie Ridley***'Geordie hero'!


Today iz an historic day for Geordies everywhere---for today iz the 162nd annivorsary of 'The Blaydon Races' song, which of course iz the Geordie National Anthem, written by Geordie Ridley in 1862.

Aaltogether now!---'Geordie Times' version!

BLAYDON RACES

"Aaa went to Blaydon Races!
t'was on the ninth of Joon!
ayteen hundred and sixty two!
on a summers afternoon!
we took the bus from Balbra's!
she was heavy laden!
away we went alang Collingwood Street!
that's on the road to Blaydon!"--

Chorus!
"Oh! mee lads! yi shud'iv seen us gannin!
passin the folks alang the road!
just az they were stanin'!
aall the lads and lasses there!
aall wi smilin' faces!
gannin alang the Scotswood Road!
to see the Blaydon Races!"

SCOTSWOOD ROAD (100th ANNIVERSARY PARADE 1962)

"We flew past Armstrong's factory!
and up to The Robin Adair!
just gannin doon ti the railway bridge!
the bus wheel flew off there!
the lasses lost their crinolines off!
the veils that hide their faces!
an' aw got two black eyes!
an' a broken nose!
in gan ti Blaydon Races!"


THE ROBIN ADAIR 

Chorus!

"An' when we put the wheel back on!
away wi went agen!
but them that had their noses broke!
they cam back ower yem!
some went to the dispensary!
and some to Doctor Gibbs'ss!
and some to the infirmary!
to mend their broken ribs'ss!"

DOCTOR GIBBS

Chorus!

"Noo when we got to paradise!
thor wes bonny gern begun!
there wes four and twenty on the bus!
man!---who they danced and sung!
they caalled on me to sing a sang!
aw sung them Paddy Fagen!
aw danced a jig and swung me twig!
the day aw went to Blaydon!"

'PARADISE' BRIDGE

Chorus!

"We swung across the chain bridge!
and into Blaydon toon!
the bellman he was caallin' there!
they caall him Jackie Broon!
aw saw him talkin' to some cheps!
and them he was persuadin'!
to gan and see Geordie Ridley's show!
at the Mechanics Hall in Blaydon!"


THE 'CHAIN BRIDGE'


Chorus!

(last vorse!)
"The rain it poor'd aw the day!
and myed the ground quite muddy!
Coffee Johnny had a white hat on!
they were shootin', "Whe stole the cuddy?"
there wes spice stalls and munkey shows!
an' aud wifes sellin' cider!
an' a chep wiv a ha'penny roond-aboot!
shottin', "Aw me lads, for riders!"

'COFFEE JOHNNY'

Chorus!

A paintin' of THE BLAYDON RACES in 1862

  

THE BLAYDON RACES PROJECTION ONTO BALTIC FLOUR MILLS 

ON THE RIVER TYNE, SATURDAY JOON 8th 2024!