Posted ‘6:00pm bells 🔔 Tuezday 7th April 2026
“EASTER 🐣 EGG 🥚 STACY!”
Ower the Easter 🐣 weekend we needed wor ‘fix’ az The Toon had a blank weekend, due to wor exit from the FA Cup!
And so we did a Dunston Double Heeder, with their home game in the Northern Premyaa Leegue East Division, on 🐣 Saturday —-and their away game on 🐣 Munday!
Forst up woz their home game v ex Futbaall Leegue side Bradfaad Park Avenue, where a bumper crowd of 421 torned up at the groond! (Bumper, az it woz nearly 200 more than wot they normally get!) (30 or so Park Avenue-ites!) The game woz really a play off 6 pointer with Bradfaad just one point behind Dunston, in the last play off place!
If it wasn’t for the Dunston’s ‘larger than life’ goalie, Dan Lowson, who made some brilliant saves in the forst half, it could easily have been 4-0 to ‘The Park Avenue-ites’ at HT, az they were well on top!
The Bad Blue Boys of Dunston played much better in the 2nd period and just when we we thought that the game would end goal-less, up stepped Dunston’s Sado to fire 🔥⚽️ home from inside the penalty area in the 88th minute, to send the vast majority of the 400 plus crowd into Easter egg🥚stacy ! (sic!)
That’s the way it ended and the result meeenz that Dunston moved 4 points clear of Bradfaad in the race for a last play off place, to reach The Northern Premyaa Leegue Premyaa Division next season!
"SCOTLAND!--SCOTLAND!--HERE WE COME!"
2 days after this and we were on wor travels to Newton Aycliffe in Coonty Durham, 30 miles south of Dunston on 'The Tyne', on the supporters bus, for Dunston’s Easter Munday fixture at The Ashcourt Stadium! (3rd visit to this groond!)
33 had travelled doon on the bus, (16 ‘Dunston Ultras’ (teenagers!) at the back and ‘The Oldies’ (like me!), at the front, includin the driver!), plus others on the team bus and in jam jars (aboot 75 Bad Blue Boys (and girls) in total, includin the Dunston committee!)
We arrived at the clubhoose at 11:20am bells’ 🔔 to find oot that it wasn’t open til ‘high noon 🕛 bells’ (An absolute disgrace!) SO we had nee choice but to heed for the nearest boozer, which woz a 10 minute walk away across a duel carriageway!
It woz caalled Gretna Green and az usual ah sent a Whatsapp message to wor lass, to tell her where I woz!
“I’m in Gretna Green!” I told her!
"Wot are you doin' in Scotland?"---I'm confused?" she replied (The forst town across the England/Scotland border)
"So your in Scotland, don't understand?" she went on!
"It's a PUB caalled Gretna Green in Newton Aycliffe!" I told her, and sent a picture of the boozer!
"Aarrr right-- I havvint got mee glasses on!" she replied!
Anyway, enough of that!---we heeded back to the clubhoose (In ENGLAND!) which woz now open and then onwards to the match, after somemore 'liquid lubrications'! (hic!)
We entered the tornstiles at the groond and within 2 minutes of the ‘1:00 bells 🔔 kick off, Dunston took the lead, when David Robinson rolled the baall across the six yard box and it trickled ower the line and into the net! 1-0 to Dunston!
The visitors were well on top and it woz soon 2-0 when a penalty woz awarded in the 32nd minute for a bad foul in the box!
David Robinson took it to double their lead! (See video at the start of this report!)
Bang on half time another penalty woz awarded at the opposite end, this time to Aycliffe after Harvey Neary dragged doon an Aycliffe attacker, who woz clean through on goal! Not anly woz a penalty awarded, but the Dunston man got a red card az well!
Divvint naa who took it?, but Dunston goalie Dan Lowson guessed the reet way and saved the shot!
The Dunston hero from Saturday (see Bradfaad report above) woz the hero once again! HT 2-0 to The Bad Blue Boys in RED!⬇️
Against 10 men, Newton Aycliffe were again 2nd best and the away side forthaa increased their lead, when completed hiz hat-trick to put the game to bed in the 82nd minute! 3-0 to Dunston final score!
Attendance: 345 (75 or so from Dunston, az mentioned!👏)
News woz awaited from Bradfaad PA, who, if they’d lost, would have been 7 points adrift!
However! they had won by 8 lucky goals to nil against Brighoose, to boost their goal difference and keep the pressure on, with 3 games to play!
Unfortunately I will miss them aall, az their fixtures clash with NUFC games, which must take priority, I'm afraid!
Hopefully IF they make the playoffs, wor games won’t clash!?
Fink (NUFC mad-sad groundhopper!--and part time Dunston fan!)
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