Ground number 373 (374 includin Motspur Park from ootside!)
Date of First Visited: 14th April 2025
Joie Stadium, Manchester
Manchester City U21s 4
Newcastle United U21s 0
Premier League 2
Attendance: 1,000 (estimated)
5 NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers
“EAST MANC MISERY TOUR!”
The jorney doon woz anxious to say the least, the other 3 in the car had bought digital tickets online, (Glennn from Ashington, Biffa the Beer and driver, Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer) and I HADDINT!—I tried in vain to buy one on mee ‘telling bone’ 📱 but their website said ticket sales for the match had ended! 🥶
The fear woz that I would be refused entry and have to watch on from the bridge across the road! —and when we got to the tornstiles aa nervously asked a steward if tickets were on sale!🙏🏻
“YES!” he said, “the tickets office is around the corner!” PANIC OVER! 🤪👍 🎫
I bought a concession ticket for the princely sum of one poond and heeded back to the tornstiles!
Once inside we bumped into Byzy who had travelled doon from Ashington! That made 5 NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers in total!
The mini stadium which iz used by their U21s and women’s team looked really smart and had cover on aall sides, with light and dark blue seats in the 2 side stands and standin terracin behind both goals— not sure of the capacity, but it looked aroond aboot the 8,000 mark!?
It took the home side, who were top of the Leegue just 5 minutes to open the scorin, when a Muir cross hit defender Cathel Hefferman’s foot and deflected into his own goal!🙈
1-0 to them!🥶
A minute later we should have equalised when a Sean Neave shot beat their keeper, but woz cleared off the line by Pusey!
On the qwaataa of an hour mark Man City increased their lead when Oboavwodou⬅️(hope av spelttt that reet?) spun aroond in the box and hit a shot past Harrison in The Toon goal! 2-0 to them!🥶
It woz virtually one way traffic when in the 28th minute they scored another, when Heskey foond Mubama who raced through unchallenged to plant the baall into wor net once more! 3-0 to them and we hadn’t even played half an hour!🥶
More chances were missed and somehow wor U21s went in just 3-0 doon at the break!
The 2nd half started off a bit brighter for us az Garung Kuol missed the goal completely, when he should have scored!
‘The Blue Moonies’ then got their 4th goal in the 56th minute when Mubama scored hiz 2nd goal from just ootside the box with a great strike! 4-0!🥶
The bar woz then rattled by McAdoo, but mercifully there woz nee more scorin from them!
We were completly ootclassed and were very lucky not to concede double the final score!
So, for the 2nd time in 2 months NUFC lost 4-0 in the east side of Manchester! (Wor 1st team lost 4-0 at The Ethiad in February!)
That ‘surrender’ woz just ower the road from Man City’s mini stadium!
The Blue Moonies win meenz they are champions, whereas NUFC U21s ended in the 9th ‘play off place’ in the Premyaa Leegue 2 table, so the 4-0 hammerin woz predictable!
This woz actually the 4th groond within qwaataa of a mile that we have seen an NUFC team play on—-believe it or not?
1:The Ethiad Stadium, groond 234 (Then known az The City of Manchester Stadium)
2: Sports City, groond 243 to the north of The Ethiad Stadium
3: City of Football Academy Complex ‘pitch 8’ groond 317 to the south of The Joie Stadium
4: The Joie Stadium, groond 373 to the south of The Ethiad Stadium
Add Man City’s old Maine Road groond (1st visited in 1969) and old academy pitches next to it caalled Platt Lane, meenz that ‘The NUFC mad- sad groundhoppers’ have actually visited SIX different groonds in Manchester alone, to watch us play Man City’s 1st team, Resorves and U21s!
Can’t see that ever bein’ beaten!
The pre match gargels took place in The Grove, aboot a qwaataa of a mile from The Joie.
The landlady woz a Man City fan and she shook wor hands coz we beat Moan U 4-1 the day before!
We had to park the car even further away coz of parkin restrictions in the local streets! Aboot a mile and a half from the groond, believe it or not!?
“WE WOZ THERE!”“I GOT IN!”
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