TWO TROPHIES TINO! 🏆🏆🥇🥇

 Posted ‘high 🕛 noon 🛎️ bells’ Sunday 29th Joon 2025

“LIVing the dream!” 😴 

Congratulations ‘2’ Tino Livramento who haz won hiz 2nd major cup in the space of 3 months, when Ing-er-land U21s beat Jawmany U21s 3-2 after extra time in the final of the EUFA Under 21s Championship in Bratislava last neet, to add to the Leegue Cup trophy, in wor epic 2-1 win ower Livaapoool at Wembley in March! 👏👏

FORST NEWCASTLE GAME TOONEET!----HONEST!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Friday 27th Joon 2025

The forst Newcastle game of the season kicks off tooneet!---But divvint panic!----The forst pre season friendly ANYWHERE in Ing-er-land that we are taakin aboot, iz between Newcastle Town and Port Vale at Newcastle UNDER LYME in Staffordshire!🠟🠟🠟

PS: Some useless information: PORT VALE WON 3-1

Beleeeve it or not 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' have actually seen 'wor' very own Newcastle play here in 2003, when wor Under 19s played Stoke City U19s in a FA Premyaa Leegue youth fixture!

Aye! thats reet! We have been to the 'othaa' Newcastle to see us play!

A match report on that game played 22 years ago will be published very sooon!----Groond number 218 to watch an NUFC team play!

SEE NEXT ARTICLE BELOW!🠟🠟🠟

218 lyme valley stadium, inewcastle under lyme (v stoke u 19s)*

 

SPOT THE CYCLE TRACK!?🚴🏻

PS: Sorry aboot the pages in this report bein' a bit wonky, but the story woz written on an old word Prossesor and aa couldnt work oot how to download it ontee The Geordie Times website on mee computaa! So aa took photos off every page and downloaded that instead!

And NO, aa wozzint half p*ssed when aa took the photos!

EFL TROPHY DRAW INVOLVIN NUFC U21s TAKES PLACE THIS AFTERNOOON!

 Posted 'high noon bells' 🕭 Thorzday 27th Joon 2025

MOOR LANE***SALFORD CITY🙏🏻

HIGHBURY***FLEETWOOD TOWN🙏🏻

"I HAVE A DREAM!"😴

NUFC U21s will again compete in the EFL TROPHY for the 9th succesive season! (Now knaan az The Vertu Trophy)

The compitition iz between the forst teams of 48 clubs in Leegues 1 and 2 and 16 Premyaa Leegue U21 teams.

The teams are split into northern and southern sections

The Premyaa Leegue U21 northern section teams are: Evaatin, Leeedz, Livaapoool, the 2 Manc teams, Forest, Wolves and 'us' 

The northern section of the Leegue 1 and 2 clubs are az follows:

8 Groups

A: Salford, Stockport and Wigin

B: Barrow, Blackpoool and Tranny Rovers

C: Bradfaad, Donny and Grimzbee

D: Barnsleee, Lincin and Notts Coonty

E: Bolton, Oldim and Rotherhim

F: Harrowgit, 'uddersfeeed and Manzfeeeld

G: Accy Stan, Fleetwood and Port Vale

H: Bortin, Chestaafeeeld and Crewe Alex

'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' have been to every groond listed, apart from Salford and Fleetwood----So we would like to be drawn in Group A or G pleeeze!🙏🏻

The draw iz live on Sky Sports News at '2:30 bells'!                    (We are baall number 6)

Az soon az we find oot which group 'The Toon' U21s are in, we will inform yoo az soon az we find oot! 

Az per usual:⬇️"Watch this space!"

Updated—-‘3:00pm bells 🔔’

SHATTERED DREAMS!😖---IT WASN’T TO BE!

NUFC U21s have been drawn to play Harrogate, ‘uddersfeeeld and Mansfeeeld in Group F

Been to them aall, so there are nee new groonds to visit for ‘The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers’!😭

*In othaa news, Spain U19s play Holland U19s in the European U19 Cup Final tooneet in Bucharest at ‘7:00 🛎️ bells’ and new NUFC signin Antonio Cordero, who haz played in the previous 4 games and scored 1 goal in the Tournament, iz expected to start!

Update: (He did start and hit the post in the 2nd half, but Holland scored just after this and they won 1-0)

Then tomorrow neet Ing-er-land U21s play Jawmany U21s in the European U21s Cup final in Bratislava and NUFCs Tino Livramento iz expected to start!  The game iz live on Channel 4 at 8:00 🕗 🛎️ bells’

Best of luck to both of them!

CUP SCHEMES DEADLINE LOOMS!

 Posted ‘high noon 🛎️ bells’  Munday 23rd Joon 2025

CAN YOO SPOT THE TWO CATHEDRALS IN THIS PHOTO!?🤔

WARNING!

The deadline for Season Ticket holders to join the 3 cup schemes iz ‘5:00 pm bells 🔔’ this Friday!

Season ticket holders who DIVVINT join the schemes ARE NOT gaurenteed a ticket for those games and must join the Mags members for ‘a free for aall’ in a lottery to get one!

We understand the concerns of some fans with (say) 2 kids that must pay £120 to watch Champions Leegue futbaall!

Unfortunately, like everything else, prices are gannin through the roof and soon it will be an average of a fiver a pint in The Toon boozers az well!

The Geordie Times haz egg 🍳 on wor faces az we predicted that we would probably get a crowd of under 30,000 for wor pre season friendly v Atletico Madrid, az it woz £25 for an adult ticket—-BUT how wrang we were, az the game iz a complete 52,300 selloot! (For a friendly!)

Talk of the new stadium seems to have vanished from the headlines, but az we aall naa 52,300 iz not big enough now, with the demand for tickets far exceedin wor current capacity!

Hopefully news on that will appear soon—BUT divvint haad yi breath, 😵az we were told that news of a new stadium would be announced 5 months ago, but of course it wozzint!

We will of course bring yoo news of that when we (eventually?) find oot!??? 

Az per usual—“Watch this space!”

48 GAMES AND COONTIN’!

 Posted ‘high noon 🕛 🔔 bells’ Friday 20th Joon 2025

THE CHAMPIONS LEEGUE FINAL WILL BE IN BUDAPEST, WHERE NUFC WON THE INTER CITIES FAIRS CUP IN 1969***A LUCKY OMEN?

“I HAVE A DREAM!😴 “

Includin’ the Premyaa Leegue, the Leegue Cup, the FA Cup and the Champions Leegue, NUFC will play a minimum of 48 games next season!

That’s ANLY if we get knocked oot of the 2 domestic Cup competitions at the forst hurdle—and the Champions Leegue in the group stage!

And if we progress in aall 3 competitions, that total could rise to 67 games! —5 more games in the League Cup if we reach the final—5 more games in the FA Cup if we reach the final—9 more games in the Champions Leegue if we have to qualify for the knockoot roonds and the final via the play offs! (Wishful ‘Finkin’ perhaps?)

For any Toon fan intending to to gan to every game home and away, it will be the most expensive season ever, running into thoosands of poonds (and Euros of course!)

“The MAGical Mystery Tour iz waitin to take us AWAY!”

NUFC 2025-2026 PREMYAA LEEGUE FIXTURES

 Posted ‘high noon 🕛 bells 🔔’ Wedinzday 18th Joon 2025

The fixtures have just been released and aalready wor forst game at Villa Park haz been moved to a ‘12:30 🔔 bells’ kick off for live telly!

We play the SMBs at The SOS in mid Decembaa and at SJP next March!

And for ‘The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers’, wor forst ever visit to Evatin’s new abode, The Dickhead Stadium ( or whatever it’s caalled?) will take place at the end of Novembaa!

For the festive fixtures we are away to Moan U the day aftaa Boxin Day and then away to The Bornlee Hillbillies the day before New Year’s eve! (Allegedly!)

We fully expect that aboot 75% of wor fixtures will be moved for live telly and European fixtures, where 9 teams, (includin NUFC of course!), will be in midweek action!

3 NUFC CUP SCHEMES LAUNCHED FOR 2025-2026

 Posted ‘high noon 🕛 🛎️ bells’ Tuezday 17th Joon 2025

The prices for the Champions Leegue, FA Cup and Leegue Cup have been annoonced by NUFC!

The prices vary from £60 for a Category 1,2 or 3 adult home ticket for The Champions Leegue group stage, to just £20 for a Catergory 1,2 or 3 adult Leegue Cup home ticket!

Whether yoo agree or disagree with The Champions Leegue prices, yoo need to remember that The Aston Villians charged £95 for a similar Champions Leegue ticket last season!

The Geordie Times az usual will be signin’ up for aall 3 schemes AND REMEMBER! IF we get to a cup final for example, fans who signed up for those schemes WILL get priority for tickets!

In other news the Premyaa Leegue fixtures for next season will be released tomorrow mornin’ at ‘9:00am bells 🔔’

And with 270 Premyaa Leegue games to be televised live and with 9 teams in midweek European action, yoo can bet your bottom dollar 💵 (or poond coin 🪙) that at least 75% of wor games will be moved because of this!

Az per usual—-“Watch this space intently” for the fixtures, which we will publish at ‘high noon 🕛 🛎️ bells’ tomorrow!

FULL ITINERY COMIN’ SOON!

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

Updated Sunday 15th Joon 'high noon 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

(7:30 pm bells local time)

Wedinzday 30th: The Toon v K Leegue X1 @  Suwon World Cup Stadium, Sooth Korea

(8:00pm bells local time)

AUGUST 2025

Sunday 3rd: The Toon v Sporz @ Seoul World Cup Stadium,  Sooth Korea

(8:00pm bells' local time)

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

Week commencin Munday 22nd: Leegue Cup 3rd roond

Tuezday 30th or Wedinzday 1st Octobaa: Champions Leegue Matchday 2

OCTOBAA🠝🠟 2025

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

*

‘OLD’ TRAFFORD NEWS RE-EMERGES!

 Posted ‘high noon 🕛 bells 🔔’ Saturday 14th Joon 2025

*Old news that NUFC are still after 'The Bornleee Hillbillies' goalie James Trafford haz re-emerged, one year after we forst tried to sign the 22 year old Under 21 Ing-er-land International!

He woz born in Cockermoooth to a farmin' family and he learned to drive a tractor! and in hiz orly carreer he would retorn to help oot on the family farm in the off-season!⮜(Thats another bit of useless information for yoo to digest from The Geordie Times!)

Hiz former clubs include Cockermoooth, Carlyll, Accrington Stanleee, Bolton Wanabeez and Man Citih! (But NOT Ipswich Toon--'The Tractor Boys' (sic!)

He iz 6 foot 6 inches taall (An inch smaaller than Dan Burn!) and a fee of aroond aboot £25 to £30 million haz been mentioned!

WE will of course keep yoo---wor loyal reeeders updated on any developments!

Az per usual, " Watch this space!"

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

Posted 'high noon bells' Thorzday 12th Joon 2025


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 8'!

Fink (the mad-sad groundhopper!)

"HAPPY BORTHDAY TO ME!"

FAIRS CUP WINNERS!---56th ANNIVORSARY!---TODAY!

Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 11th Joon 2025

On this day 56 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 163rd ANNIVORSARY---TODAY!

Updated 'high noon bells' Munday 9th Joon 2025


Geordie Ridley***'Geordie hero'!


Today iz an historic day for Geordies everywhere---for today iz the 163rd 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 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!

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