Posted ‘12:45pm 🔔 bells’ Munday 12th August 2025
Wor final pre season game against giant opposition from Madrid ended in a 2-0 defeat, meeenin that the anly win woz against Carlisle, now a non Leegue club, by 4 goals to nil!(BehindClosedDoors!)
7 pre season games: Won 1, drawn 2, lost 4! Goals scored 9, Goals conceded 13!
Az there were nee tickets available for mee normal seat in The Milburn Stand upper tier when aa went to book mee ticket, aa decided to buy an aisle seat in The Leazes End Middle tier!-- The reason aa wanted an aisle seat woz because the seats there are too close together and with mee bein 6 foot taall, mee knees would be rammed against the seat in front!---With an aisle seat aa can sit sideways with mee legs in the aisle!
Of course that didnt gan to plan az when aa got there this gadgy woz sittin in it!!!---"This iz MY seat!" aa said!---Hiz wife pipped up, "He's got a broken foot and needs to stick hiz leg in the aisle, do you mind sittin 3 seats in?"
Not wantin to be a c**t, I reluctantaly agreed and sat doon with mee knees pressed up against the seat in front, like aa knew they would be!
The seat next to me woz empty at the time and aa turned to the left to give me more space----and aye, you've guessed it!---A big fat kid came and sat beside me, makin it even more uncomfortable for mee poor knees!
Aa stood up but a steward told me to sit doon!----The gadgy in my seat decided to sit on the steps of the aisle az it woz hiz left foot that woz broken and the aisle woz on the right! (ie: he could stick hiz good foot oot, but not hiz broken foot!) So aa DID eventually sit in the seat aa'd booked in the end! (I hope yoo havvint faallen asleep readin this!?)
In the meeentime of course they eventually opened the Upper tiers and aa could see that fans were sittin in the seats that aa normally sit in---WITH loads of legroom! (Sods law!)
Anyway!---enough 0f that!----Withoot a proven striker who had downed tools (guess who?) Anthony Gordon led the line up, but we couldnt make the breakthrough az we attacked The Leazes goal!
A completleee different line from the neet before took to the field az we played in wor home strip for a change! (We played in wor dark blue strip in the 2-2 draw with Espanyol the neet before!)
Kieran Tripper came closest to scorin for us with a free kick just ootside the box, but the Madrid keeper made an excellent stop!
Madrid had most of the play but just couldnt get a goal and the game ended level at half time with nee score!
The 2nd half woz a bit different az wor visitors attacked The Leazes goal!---The breakthrough came in the 50th minute when wor defence were at sixes and sevens and Alvarez had the eazy task of side footin the baall into the net to give them a 1-0 lead!
Their second goal wozzint lang in comin 13 minutes later, when another defensive mix up let in Griezmann, who fired past The Pope in The Toon goal! 2-0 to them!
It woz a case of 'would they score anymore?', rather than 'would we pull one back?', and az the game petered oot the crowd, many of them young kids with their mammys and daddys started to leave the groond!
ATLETICO FAN WITH ⬆️A TOON SCARF
Az there were 30,782 at the Espanyol game(they had NEE fans), it gave a combined attendance for the 2 days to 82,366!---||Not bad for 'a smaall tin pot club' for 2 friendlies (Accordin to Livaapoool and Moan U fans!)
*PS: The Toon lasses aalso lost 2-0 to Atletico lasses in the orlier game!----
Footnote: The Geordie Times,z record of havin seen every home friendly since 1967 iz still intact! (Last friendly missed woz v Linfield in 1966---NUFC won 7-2!)
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