DUNSTON 1 EMLEY 0 *** NORTHERN PREMYAA LEEGUE SEMI FINAL PLAY OFF

 Posted ‘high noon 🕛 bells’ 🔔 Wedinzday 30th April 2025

“BAD BLUE BOYS BLISS!”

We met up at The Tudor Rose 🌹 boozer in Dunston for a few liquid lubrications before heeding to Dunston’s groond a 10 minute walk away!

Az we approached the groond car were parked in every available space on paths and grass verges, which meant that there would be a much larger crowd in attendance!

We paid in and heeded straight for the clubhoose, but the queue for the bar woz nearly oot the door, so we opted for ‘the can bar’ where there woz nee queue!

We managed to find a place on the touchline to watch the proceedings!

The game kicked off and straight away Dunston went on the attack az they played towards the ‘Tea Hut End’

They had several chances to take the lead but went in aall square at the break!

Emley were a bit better in the 2nd period and the game woz too-and fro and anybody could win it!

The game woz played in warm sunny conditions and the crowd woz 3 times the size of a normal Leegue game!

 The Bad Blue Boys of Dunston (named after The Bad Blue Boys ultras of Dinamo Zagreb) finally won it when a Dan Turner bullet shot from the edge of the box unsighted the Emley keeper to score a spectacular winning goal in the 94th minute to progress to the play off final, against Stocksbridge Park Steels back at UTS Stadium on Saturday!

The vast majority of the ‘huge’ 903 crowd went wild with delight az the Emley players fell to the groond in dispair!

To lose the game that late when extra time woz looming woz cruel to say the least, but it woz extacy for Dunston az the entire team includin in the Dunston goalie Dan Lowson ran the full length of the pitch to mob the goal scorer!

That’s futbaall for yoo!

   Joy and dispair at every level of the game!

PS: The final iz on Saturday at ‘3:00 🛎️s!—And guess wot? I’m booked on the ‘3:00 🔔s train to King’s Cross on wor way to Brightin for The Toon’s Premyaa Leegue game at ‘2:00 🛎️s on Sunday!—(Its my on impossible to get there on Sunday for the kick off time)So unfortunately I won’t be there to see it—Sods law!

DUNSTON V EMLEY *** PLAY OFF SEMI FINAL TOONEET

 Posted ‘2:49pm bells 🔔 Tuezday 29th April 2025

With nee NUFC games through the week, we are off to Dunston who play Emley from Derbyshire for a place in The Northern Premyaa Leegue East Division play off final on Saturday!

The prize for winning the final iz a place in the Northern Premyaa Leegue, Premyaa Division—-3 divisions below the Futbaall Leegue!

It’s a tenner to get in for big kids, six quid for zimmerframeites and three quid for sprogs!

Kick off iz at ‘7:45 bells 🔔’ for the biggest game in Dunston’s 50 year history!—- Come alang and cheer the ‘blue boys’from Tyneside to victory!

We will dee a match report on the game sometime tomorrow!

APU “Watch this space!”

THE TOON 3 THE TRACTOR BOYS OF IPSWICH 0 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2024-2025

 Posted 'high noon bells' Sunday 27th April 2025

"BACK ON TRACK AGAINST THE TRACTOR BOYS!"

After wor horror show at Villa last Saturday, NUFC needed to boonce back against relegation certainteeez Ipswich!

'Steady Eddie' woz back in the dugoot after missin 3 games through illness to huge applause from the crowd!

The game kicked off and within 2 minutes a misplaced pass across the box from Dan Burn, foond Delap who shot just wide at The Gallowgate End----"Time to wake up lads!"

Bruno then 'scored' at The Leazes End but woz deemed to have fouled Palmer in the visitors goal and so it woz chalked off! (A very harsh decision!!)

Ipswich's Johnson then got a yellow card for divin' in the box!

Isak then sent a heeder ower the bar and then a back heel a minute later went ower the bar az well, az the half dragged on!

Johnson woz then send off in the 37th minute when he held onto Isak on the Miburn Stand wing--- hiz 2nd yellow card--and so they were doon to ten men! 

Sandro Tonali then hit the top of the right hand post, az we laid seige to the Tractor Boys goal and we wondered if it woz gannin to be one of those games!?

Az stoppage time approached Jacob Murpy woz fouled in the box, but the ref waved 'play on'!

VAR got involved and told him to gan to the monitor to have a 2nd look!---20 looks later! and he eventually pointed to the penalty spot to the relief of the crowd!

Alexander the Great (Isak) took the kick and put the baall to the right of the Ipswich keeper, who tried in vain to get hiz hands to the baall! (Isak's 22nd Premyaa Leegue goal of the season!)  HT 1-0 to us!

The 2nd half woz played aalmost entirely in the Gallowgate End of the pitch az we looked to improve wor goal difference!

It finally happened in the 56th minute when Tripper sent a pin-point cross from the Milburn Stand side of the pitch and Dan Burn woz on hand to heed home from very close range! 2-0 to us!

The thord and final goal came in the 80th minute, when 'super-sub' Osula heeded into the net from a Trippier corner from the Milburn Stand side! 3-0 to us!---final score!---and relegation finally conformed for Ipswich! (Sven Botman had come on in the 83rd minute, to huge applause from the Toon fans after lang torm absence through injury!)

The plus 3 goal difference cancelled oot the 4-1 defeat at Villa and this woz wor 6th win in 7 games, to propel The Toon back up to thord place in the table with a goal difference of plus 22, which could be pivotal in the race for the Champions Leegue, with just 4 game to gan!

Attendance: 52,171 (Includin an impressive 3,000 Tractor Boys in level 7 of The Leazes End! The vast majority stayed til the bitter end to applaud their team and vise versa!)

Footnote: It's a funny old game!

In wor last home game we hammered Palliss 5-0 and then went to Villa and were hammered 4-1

Villa then went to Wembley yesterday to play Palliss in the semi finals of the FA Cup and (aye yiv guessed it!) were hammered 3-0!

"STEADY EDDIE IZ BACK AND READY!"

 Posted ‘high noon 🔔 bells’ Friday 25th April 2025 🫅

News that Eddie Howe🫅haz recovered from pneumonia haz finally reached 'The Geordie Times' (one day late via carrier pigeon!🠟🕊)

This iz fantastic news for everybody connected with NUFC and iz a major boost for wor Champions Leegue aspirations! (Although Eddie said that he still wasn’t 100%)

We play Ipswich tomorrow afternooon in wor last Saturday game of the season and 3 points would propel us up to 3rd in the table and relegate Ipswich in the process!

We need to boonce back from the 4-1 defeat at Villa last Saturday and widen the gap between us and them to the 5 points gap we had between us before that defeat!

Villaa, Man Citih and Forest are aall in FA Cup semi final action this weekend, so this iz a great chance to cement wor place in the top 5 and a Champions Leegue place next season!

The Toon beat Ipswich 4-0 at their place, orlier in the season, but az we naa in futbaall, anything can happen if we are not 100% focused!🔭 Plus wor visitors havvint won on Tyneside for 40 years!🍌

A full 'Geordie Times' match report will appear here sometime on Sunday!

APU “Watch this space!”

PS: Wor U21s are in action tooneet v The Arse U21s in the Premer Leegue 2 play offs at Boreham Wood FC’s Meadow Park groond in London! It’s a ‘7 🛎️ bells’ kick off and entry iz FREE!

The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers’ have been here before and we have got the ‘T shirt’ , so we won’t be there tooneet! (We don’t gan to these games if we’ve been to the groond before!)

But if yoo just happen to be in the London area today, ‘get yourselz doon and support The Toon!’

THE NUFC MAGICAL MYSTERY PUB CRAWL TOUR 2024-2025

 Posted periodically (az we tick the away groonds off, on wor travels), from 4th August 2024 to 19th April 2025 (85 reached in 22 towns and cities!)

the remarkable hare, matlock, for an under 21s game v derby under 21s (see boozer number 011)

The NUFC away pub crawl tour 2024-2025 iz well underway and nearin' the 'end game'--- and so far we have visited 85 different drinkin dens at 27 away games! (21 forst team games and 6 U21s games) 

Some pubs we have visited numerous times, so first visits of the season only listed (*Numerous visits*)

Premyaa Leegue games, unless stated.

001 tams bar, south shields (south shields v nufc u21s)

002 1st cloud arena chilled beer bar (south shields v nufc u21s)

003 friend at hand, london (bmouth game) *

004 marquis of cornwall, london (bmouth game) *

005 lord john russell, london (bmouth game) *

006 norfolk arms, london (bmouth game)*

007 brewhouse and kitchen, pokesdown (bmouth game)

008 the way outback, pokesdown (bmouth game)

009 waterloo tap, london (bmouth game)

010 vat and fiddle, nottingham (forest, leegue cup game) (aalso for the premyaa leegue game)

011 the remarkable hare, matlock (derby u21s v nufc u21s game)

012 matlock sports and social club, matlock (derby u21s v nufc u21s game)

013 the picturehouse, stafford (wolves game)

014 the yard, stafford (wolves game)

015 the sun, stafford (wolves game)

016 east putney tavern, london (fulham game)

017 spotted horse, london (fulham game)

018 the vault (below putney pies), london (fulham game)

019 craft beer co., london (fulham game)

020 the mill bar and kitchen, manchester (everton game)

021 the barlow arms, liverpool (everton game)*

022 the north western, liverpool (everton game)

023 mable tavern, london (chelsea game)

024 aragon house, london (chelsea)

025 president hotel bar, london (chelsea)

026 betjeman arms, london (chelsea game)*

027 the bole bridge, tamworth (u21s v tamworth)

028 tamworth clubhouse, tamworth (u21s v tamworth)

029 the ram, newark (forest leegue game)

030 industry, nottingham (forest leegue game)

031 jb, newark (forest leegue game)

032: the grafton, bedford (palace game)

033: the craft beer cabin, london (palace game)

034: the spirit of endevour, boston (u21s v boston united)

035: ellenders, boston (u21s v boston united)

036: the botanist, london (brentford game)

037: the express tavern, london ( brentford game)

038: isaacs, ipswich (ipswich game)👆👇

039: the briarbank, ipswich (ipswich game)

040: gasworks, manchester (man u game)

041: peveril of the peak, manchester (man u game)

042: the britons protection, manchester (man u game)

043: the waterhouse, manchester (man u game)

044: heaton park, manchester (man u game)*

045: the volunteer, london (spurs game)

046: redemption, london (spurs game)

047: the swimmers at the grafton arms, london (arse league cup game) 👆👇

048 the tilley stone, gateshead (u21s v gateshead)

049 the metropole, gateshead (u21s v gateshead)

050 grey nags head, gateshead (u21s v gateshead)

051 85 cafe bar, travelodge hotel, birmingham (southampton game)

052 the giddy bridge, southampton (southampton game)

053 belgium & blues, southampton (southampton game)

054 the mayflower village, southampton (southampton game)

055 york tap, york (birmingham game)

056 the wellington, birmingham (birmingham game)*

057 newall street tavern, birmingham (birmingham game)

058 the queens arms, birmingham (birmingham game)

059 victoria tap, manchester (man c game)

060 track brewery, manchester (man c game)

061 barrel store, manchester (man c game)

062 the sir henry segrave, southport (liverpool game)

063 beer merchants tap, london (west ham game)

064 the cock tavern, london (west ham game)

065 the old ship, london (west ham game)

066 baxters court, london (west ham game)

067 the butchers tap and grill, marlow (wembley game v liverpool)

068 grand assembly, marlow (wembley game v liverpool)

069 marlow fc clubhouse, marlow (wembley game v liverpool)

070 mad squirrel, high wycombe (wembley game v liverpool)

071 the falcon, high wycombe (wembley game v liverpool)

072 the antelope, high wycombe (wembley game v liverpool)

073 butlers, high wycombe (wembley game v liverpool

074: 85 bar cafe, high wycombe (wembley game v liverpool)

075 flint cottage, high wycombe (wembley game v liverpool)

076 black sheep coffee, wembley, london (sold beer!) v liverpool

077 o'neills, high wycombe (wembley game v liverpool)

078 the old contemptables, birmingham (wembley game v liverpool)

079 the roebuck, birmingham (wembley game v liverpool)

080 the regent club, leicester (leicester game)

081 the amber rooms, loughborough (leicester game)

082 grove inn, manchester (man city u21 game)

083 the sun on the hill, birmingham (villa game)

084 the briar rose, birmingham (villa game)

085 the london and north western, birmingham (villa game)