Posted ‘high noon 🕛 bells’ 🔔’ Sunday 26th Octobaa 2025
“FOR A CHANGE, A WINNER AT THE DEATH!”
Followin wor great 3-0 win against Benfica in The Champions Leegue on Tuezday, it woz vital that we kept up the momentum against Fulim yesterday!
They’d lost 3 in a row in The Premyaa Leegue, so we were odds on favourites to collect the 3 points!
Of course this doesn’t aalways happen with NUFC and it looked az though we would have to settle for a 1-1 draw!
However! it didn’t pan oot this way and the sequence of events were az follows:
3rd and 5th minutes: Both Nick Waltemade and Jacob Murphy had efforts that hit the frame of the goal az we attacked The Leazes goal!
18th minute: The breakthrough!---Jacob Murphy races past the Cottage Pies defence (their nickname iz The Cottagers) and he faces a 'one to one' with Fulim goalie Leno and hits a precision shot, which went in off the post! 1-0 to us!
We really couldnt get oot of 2nd gear and struggled for the rest of the half az wor visitors tried to level things!
40th minute: Jacob Murphy haz an identical run to goal and again faces Leno in a 'one to one' , but this time its the goalie who comes oot on top az he deflects Murphy's shot, which went oot for a corner! HT 1-0 to us!
Like aa say, we werent at wor best in the forst half against a poor Fulim team who actually started to dominate the 2nd period!
They had quite a few chances and of course the invertible happened!
56th minute: Jiminez hits a shot that ricoshades of the crossbar and in the melee that followed, Sven Botman got clattered and ended up in the back of the net with the baall! 1-1
The 1,700 Fulim fans high up in the Leazes gods, rubbed it in by singin', "No noise from the Saudi Boys!"
After lenghy treatment for a cut to the heed, Botman leaves the field with concusion, holdin a bandage to the cut! (Replaced by Fab Schar)
64th minute: An unmarked Bruno haz a glarin miss at The Gallowgate End, when hiz heeder gans inches wide, az we groaned in dispair!
90th minute: Just when it looked az though the game would end in a draw, super sub Will Osula latched onto a Sandro Tonali pass and hit a sweet shot which woz parried to Bruno by Leno---and wor captain had the easy chance of firin' the baall into the net to send the vast majority of the crowd into raptures! 2-1 to "The Saudi Boys!"🤪👍
6 minutes of stoppage time for Botman's treatment woz shown on the 4th official’s board, az the crowd whistled for the ref to blow for full ttime! Nerves were janglin and finger nails were chewed az Fulim tried in vain for a very late equaliser!---The ref who woz crap again, actually played 9 minutes stoppage time, before finally blowin' for full time, to the relief of the faithful! (Makes a change from the very late home defeats to Livaapoool and The Arse!)
The win lifted us to the top half of the table briefly, but later on, a 'smaaller club' from west London caalled Brentfaad beat Livaapoool 3-2! (minus 'yee naa who' through injury) Az they say: "Instant karma's gonna get you!"
*(Livaapoool manager Arne Snot had said through the week that NUFC were a “smaller club’, and implied that to woz ‘wor fault’ that Isak wasn’t fit!—He went on strike, remember!— Hardly wor fault!)🥶)
That result meant we slipped to 11th place in the Premyaa Leegue table!
Attendance: 52,152 (1,700 Cottage Pies who were 'pie eyed' after wor late goal!)
*Happy fans leave the groond!⬇️
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