NUFC MAGical Mystery Tour of Europe 2025-2026

 Posted ‘high noon🕛 bells’ 🔔 Thorsday 5th Joon 2025

*The draw for the group stage of The Champions Leegue doesn't take place til August 28th, but we naa aalready 22 oot of 30 teams NUFC could meet! (We cannit meet any of the other 5 Inglish clubs in the group stage!)

'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' have been to 11 oot of the 22 possible stadiums, which meeenz there iz a real possibility that we will get a few new groonds in the draw!

There are some fabulous mind bogglin' stadiums on the list, both old and new and they look absolutley oot of this world!

Possible new groonds are: 

Projected Pot 1:

Real Madrid and Bayern Munich

Projected Pot 2:

Atletico Madrid, Atalanta and Villarreal

Projected Pot 3: 

Ajax, Napoli and Slavia Prague

Projected Pot 4:

Galatasaray, Union SG, Athletic Bilbao (new groond---been to old groond)

NEW STADIUM UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT TOP.  OLD STADIUM AT BOTTOM OF PICTURE                           INSIDE NEW STADIUM, BELOW

Possible old groonds:

Pot 1:

PSG, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona

Pot 2:

Bayer Levekusen and Eintract Frankfurt

Pot 3:

Marseille, Olympiacos, Sporting Lisbon and PSV Eindhoven

 

Pot 4:

AS Monaco

NUFC will play 2 teams from each Pot---

1 at SJP and 1 away, from each group = 8 games 

  

FULL ITINERY COMIN’ SOON!

 Posted 'high noon bells' 🕭 Wedinzday 28th May 2025---Updated Tuezday 3rd Joon '7:00pm bells'

⬆️DATES⬆️

FOR YOUR DIARY!

JUNE 2025

Sunday 1st: Transfer window opens

Tuezday 10th: Transfer window closes

Munday 16th: Transfer window reopens

Wedinzday 18th: Premyaa Leegue fixtures annoonced

JULY 2025

Saturday 19th: The Toon v Celtic at Parkhead ('3:00 bells')

Adidas Cup (Allocation 7,200 sold oot!)

Sunday 27th: The Toon v The Arse in Singapore

AUGUST 2025

??????: The Toon v K Leegue X1 in Sooth Korea

??????: The Toon v Sporz in Sooth Korea

Saturday 9th: The Toon v Atletico Madrid at SJP ('4:00 bells')

Sela Cup

(Womens game at 1:00 bells' Toon Lasses v Atletico Madrid Lasses)

Saturday 16th: Premyaa Leegue begins

Thorzday 28th: Champions Leegue draw

SEPTEMBAA 2025

Munday 1st: Transfer window closes

Tuezday 16th or Wedinzday 17th: Champions Leegue matchday 1

Tuezday 30th or Wedinzday 1st Octobaa: Matchday 2

OCTOBAA🠝🠟 2025

??????: Leegue Cup 3rd roond

Tuezday 21st or Wedinzday 22nd: Champions Leegue matchday 3

NOVEMBAA

Tuezday 4th or Wedinzday 5th: Champions Leegue matchday 4

Tuezday 25th or Wedinzday 26th: Champions Leegue matchday 5

DECEMBAA 2025

Tuezday 9th or Wedinzday 10th: Champions Leegue matchday 6

January 2026

Thorzday 1st: Transfer window opens

??????: FA Cup 3rd roond

Tuezday 20th or Wedinzday 21st: Champions Leegue matchday 7

Wedinzday 28th: Champions Leegue    matchday 8

??????: Transfer window closes

With 270 live Premyaa Leegue games to be shown and with 9 teams in midweek European action, yoo can bet your bottom dollar that we will have hardly any '3:00 bells'🕭 Saturday kick offs next season!

Champions Leegue: The Toon, The Liverbirds, The Arseholes, The Blue Moonies, The Chelsee Pensioners, Sporzy

Europa Leegue: The Hazbeenz and Villians, The Palliss Cryers 

Europa Conference: The Friar Tuck Mob

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FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE SPACE AGE!!

 Posted ‘high noon bells’ 🔔Munday 2nd Joon 2025

 

Wyn 'the leap' Davies in flyin' mode in the 1960s v 'The Liverbirds' in front of the old West Stand!

I woz watchin’ a programme on the ‘BBC I Player’ aboot the Bradford fire on the 40th anniversary of the tragedy in May 1985, when 56 fans perished in the dilapidated wooden main stand! (54 Bradford fans and 2 Lincoln fans)

Then we had the Heysel Stadium disaster which killed 39 Juventus who were crushed when a waall collapsed after they were attacked by Livaapool fans, later that same month!

Fast forward 4 years to 1989 when 97 Livaapool fans were crushed to death on the Hillsborough terraces and unable to escape because of the high metal security fence!

The stadiums everywhere were indeed dilapidated and something had to change!

To put things into context Goodison Park and Old Trafford were considered to be 2 of the best stadiums in the country at the time!—And look at them now!—Evaatin are movin oot of their old oot of date home to a brand new stadium 2 miles away and Old Trafford iz faallin doon with leaky roofs and rat 🐀 infestations!

While Hillsborough, which had a huge open terrace at the time looks old and dilapidated now!

The Taylor report after Hillsborough woz a game changer and NUFC were forced to demolish the wooden main West stand which woz built in 1905!

Demolition of old West Stand, replaced by The Milburn Stand in 1988

It woz replaced by a bigger concrete stand, which became The Milburn Stand after ‘Wor Jackie’ Milburn who won 3 FA Cup winners medals with NUFC in the 1950s! Jackie had passed away just after the stand opened in 1988

The other stands at The Leazes and Gallowgate ends were built and then extended to the current 52,300 aall seater capacity!

Aroond Europe unbelievable stadiums have since been built since those dark 'stone age' days 40 years ago!

In The Geordie Times next article to be published soon, we list the teams groonds that NUFC could well play in the group stage of The Champions Leegue which we have never previously visited!

There are some absolutely mind blowing’ stadiums that have been built since the days of open terraces and 12foot high fences to stop pitch invasions!

So “Watch this space intently for pix of these super space age stadiums!”

PS: When the old West Stand woz gettin demolished aa nipped into the groond and 'nicked' 2 wooden seat from the stand az a souviner and made a coffee table oot of them!🠟🠟🠟(Looks a bit nackered now!)🠟🠟🠟