Posted ‘high noon 'bells' on the train back Sunday 20th April 2025
*”TYPICAL TOON!”
*It took Villa a mere 36 seconds to open the scorin when a Watkin’s shot took a wicked deflection off Schar, which wrong footed The Pope in the Toon goal and ended up in the back of the net!—1-0 to them! The 2nd time this haz happened in Birmingham this year, az Birmingham City took the lead within a minute in wor FA Cup tie there in January!
It woz ‘even steven’s’ after this and we equalised in the 18th minute when Fab Schar heeded in a Harvey Barnes cross with the Villa goalie unable to stop in crossin the goal line! 1-1
That’s the way it stayed til the break!
Something had to ‘give’ az NUFC were on a 6 game winnin streak, while Villa were unbeaten in 15 home games!— and so it did in the 2nd period!—but NOT in wor favour!
Watkins played a through baall to Maatsen, who raced into the box and hit a sweet cross from an angle, with The Pope unable to stop it entering the goal! 2-1 to them!
Worse woz to follow a few minutes later, when, within 2 minutes they struck twice!
A Ramsey cross woz inadvertently deflected into the net by Dan Burn and then Onana hit a shot from the edge of the box to complete the scorin! 4-1 to them!
Villa had aalso hit the goal frame 3 times, while NUFC hardly ventured into their half!
3 games in a week with the same startin’ line ups!
It’s typical of us to play brilliantly most of the time, but az any seasoned Toon fan knows, there’s aalways a bad result every now and again aroond the corner! (2-4 at Brentfaad, 1-4 v Bournemooth, 0-4 at Man City etc!)
Still! 20 wins oot of the last 25 in aall competitions isn’t bad at aall! (5-0 v Palliss, 4-1 v Moan U, 2-1 v the champions elect at Wembley etc!🏆)
At the time of writin this we are still 3rd in the table, but aall that could change in the next few days, with Champions Leegue rivals in action before we play ‘The Tractor Boys’ of Ipswich next Saturday at SJP!
Attendance: 42,618 (3,000 shell shocked Toon fans!)
*THE USUAL DRINKIN DEN STATS ARE AZ FOLLOWS:
5 drinkin dens this time, aall in Birmingham, 2 of which we have aalready visited this season!
RUNNIN TOTAL OF DIFFERENT DRINKIN DENS THIS SEASON NOW 85
*”IT WOZ JUST LIKE A LAUREL & HARDY SKETCH!”
(The circle line!)
We stopped at the Travelodge Birmingham International on the outskirts of Birmingham on Saturday neet, coz it woz half the price of the city centre hotels!
We ordered a taxi for ‘8:30 bells 🔔’ on Sunday mornin’ to take us to Birmingham International train station (a 7-8 minute taxi ride from the hotel—£10 fare!) We got there in good time for the train to Birmingham New Street (a 10 minute jorney) and the plan woz to gan to the Greggs shop in New Street station and get a couple of bacon and egg sarnies each, az we were clammin, before catchin the 10:50am bell🔔s’ train back to The Toon!
However!—the train from Birmingham International woz CANCELLED at short notice and we would miss wor connection if we waited for the next one!
PANIC STATIONS!🥶
BUT! there woz an express bus to Birmingham and so we caught that instead—and guess what?—it actually went back the way we’d come in the taxi and past a bus stop near WOR HOTEL on the way to New Street station!!!—By the time the bus got there, we didn’t have time to gan to Greggs and had to make a mad dash for the train!🚂
“How’s the bacon, 🥓 did you say!?”
“YI COULDN’T MAKE IT UP!”🙈
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