Posted '4:00pm bells' Tuezday 25th February 2025
(Game played last Saturday)
"WHERE'S ROBIN HOOD AND HIZ MERRY MEN!?"
*With NUFC not playin til Sunday at SJP against Nottingham Forest aa decided to 'mad-sad groundhop' to deepest Nottinghamshire to watch The Dunston Bad Blue Boys play Sherwood Colliery, which iz in the heart of Sherwood Forest, where Robin Hood and hiz merry men lived many moons ago!
The Geordie Times antourage <(we naa aall the big words!) numberin ONE!(me!) travelled doon on the Dunston FC team bus, where the commitee sit at the front, the players sit at the back and the fans sit in the middle!
The M1 motorway woz shut just past the M18 torn off, so the driver of the team bus had nee choice but to divert up that motorway instead towards the A1M!
One wrang tornin off the A1 and we ended up gannin the lang way roond and instead of gettin to the groond at '1:00pm bells' az planned, we arrived nearly one hour later and made a mad dash to the clubhoose for some much needed liquid lubrications of the alcholic variety and shovelled a few pints🍺🍺🍺🍺doon, before the '3:00 bells' kick off!👇
The game kicked off with barely 100 spectators present, with Dunston comittee and fans makin up aboot 20% of the gate! (Thats 20 for yoo ignorammanious oot there!) 👇
The huge Sherwood forest woz behind the far stand from us, but disappointingly there woz nee sign of Robin Hood or hiz merry men in the assembled 'crowd'? (mebeez they were off robin the rich to give to the poor!) 👇
It woz a nightmare start for 'The Bad Blue Boys' (who played in aall RED!) az they went behind after just 4 minutes on the plastic pitch, when Xander Duhameau fired home a low shot from 20 yards oot, beatin Dan Lowson in the Dunston goal! 1-0 to The Merry Men of Sherwood!
Sherwood are in a relegation place, while Dunston are in a play off place and az yi'd expect they came back to equalise in the 19th minute, when JJ O'Donnell heeded home from 20 yards oot, with the home keeper rooted to the spot! 1-1
Thats the way it stayed til the break and to be honest it wasnt a very good game!----Another mad dash to the clubhoose for a gipsys kiss (there were nee 'tool sheds' (bogs) inside the groond!? (Never seen that before!) and of course a swift tonsil ticklin lubrication before the start of the 2nd half!
Az yi'd expect aa missed the forst 5 minutes of the restart az it took a while to get sorved, with the clubhoose packed with twice az many people in it, that were at the match? (Its an absolute disgrace that they didn't wait until I retorned to kick off the 2nd half!)😠
Thankfully, aa missed nee more goals when aa eventually got back to mee standin place in the groond, az 'The Bad Blue Boys in Red' attacked the left hand goal from where aa woz standin'!
The 2nd period woz a bit better and both teams 'even stevens' until the 67th minute when Dunston goalie Lowson punted the baall upfield, which saw Dale Pearson break free and cross to JJ O'Donnell!
He woz brought doon in the box by Sherwood's Smith and the ref pointed straight to the penalty spot! O'Donnell took it himself and put the baall to the right of their keeper to put the 'Bad Blue/Red Boys' 2-1 up!
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The goal lifted Dunston az The Merry Men wornt so 'merry' now!
It ended 2-1 to Dunston who kept their play off place, while Sherwood are stuck in the relegation zone!
This woz mee 75th groond watchin' Dunston to reach the three qwaataaz of a century mark! (29 of which a'v seen The Toon play on az well!)
The jorney back to Tyneside woz uneventful (nee motorways closed and nee wrang torns by the driver, this time!)
Official attendance 122
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