FOREST 3 THE TOON 4 !

Posted '7;30 am bells' WEdnesday 21st September 2011

"SINGIN' IN THE RAIN!"

LOVENKRANDS PENALTY IN FRONT OF TOON FANS

A spectacular topsy torvy SEVEN GOAL THRILLER @ The City Groond late last neet saw The Toon run oot 4-3 winners ower a 'brolly-less' Steve McClaren side in the rain, with wor winner comin' from 'Fab' Coloccini with a heeded goal deep into stoppage time of extra time and in front of the exxxstatic Toon fans behind that goal!

We were in the lead a total of FOWER times with Forest comin' back on three occasions.
Wor goals were az follows: (deep breath!)
39th minute: Peter Lovenkrands spectacular heeder@ The Trent End---60th minute:Penalty @ wor end
93rd minute: (extra time)Danny Simpson cross which went straight in the far corner @ The Trent End
123rd minute:'Fab' Colocinni
Attendance: anly 10,208 (2,187 Toon fans)

We were aalso in action @ Chesterfield in the afternoon where wor resorves played theirs in a 1-1 draw (Moyo)
Much more to follow when aa finish work much later toneent! (or in the mornin'!)

THE VILLA 1 THE TOON 1

Updated '8:00 am bells Monday 19th September 2011

The centre forwardless Magpies continued their great start to the season with a fine draw @ Villa Park. But it was a disappointed 2,000 or so Toon fans who left at the final whistle as we shud have taken aall three points against a very average side.

The home side opened the scorin' in the 13th minute when a defensive blunder let in Agbonlarhor who slotted past Tim Krul in The Toon goal. Villa had a couple more chances to double their lead soon after this but we settled doon and started played some canny stuff but Shay Given denied us at The Holt End with several fine saves and we went in one doon at the break.

We went for the jugular in the second half and again went close with Yohan Cabaye hittin' the Villa bar ten minutes after the restart before the invertible equaliser a couple of minutes later when Lion Best struck, convortin' a Cheik Tiote cross past Given for a well desorved equaliser.

We dominated after this but the winner neva came and we had to settle for the one point.
We are still in fourth position az aa write this piece!
Attendance: 34,248 (2,000 Toon fans)


'Brum' mini pub craal report

Before the match and on arrival at New Street Station at aroond '11 bells' we heeded for the forst boozer which was caalled The Wellington where a pint of 'Mad Goose' was mee chosen liquid refreshment!
Afta a few more 'gargels'in the surrondin' boozers it was off to The Bartons Arms which is a favorite of ours when we come to Villa as it's aboot a twenty minute waalk from the groond.



THE BARTONS ARMS---"STILL STANDIN'!"


Durin' the riots the otha week, the pub was looted and they tried to born it doon but thankfully the fire was put oot and the pub reopened within days.

Bein' lazy b*****ds when it was time to gan to the match, (afta several liquid refreshments!) we decided to get the bus instead of waalkin'!

However!---the number 7 bus which takes you past the groond was full and it drove straight past leavin' us in 'panic station' mode as it was just fifteen minutes to kick off and so a frantic wavin' of hands to any passin' taxi soon started!

Eventually two stopped and we were whisked to the groond with literally seconds to spare, just makin' the kick off!---it was a close caall and we definateleee WONT be deein' this again (shanks's pony the next time!)

THE VILLA v THE TOON---IT'S NOT LIVE!---OH! YES IT IZ!

Posted '6:30 am bells' Saturday 17th September 2011

"SOMEWHERE NEAR ST JAMES'!"

Later on this afternoon we will attempt to stretch wor unbeaten run at the start of the Premya Leege season to FIVE! games when we visit Villa Park @ '3 bells' for a rare non televised game!-------Aa say 'non televised', but that doesn't include a canny few bars in 'The Toon' that have the Arabian 'Pirate' Channel and who are blatentleee advertisin' that the game IZ live on the chalkboards in their boozers, despite the '3 bells' Saturday start, which iz supposed to be a 'no!-no'! (see above!)

However!---Villa Park iz not a happy place for us in recent years and we have lost on the last fower visits here, includin' that horrible day in May 2009 (IF yi divvint naa!---divvint ask!)

At sixty six quid for a train ticket and forty three quid for a match ticket it isn't a cheap day oot!---but!---aa cannit complain as 'Norman The Cowboy Plumber' and his 'bruvva' 'Fawlty Towers' have had to cough up an eye waaterin' ninety five quid just to let 'the train take their strain', coz they booked it up late!
And they wonder why attendances are gannin doon! (Away tickets were still on sale to season ticket holders/members on Friday neet!---2,700 allocation)

Match report to follow on Sunday (sometime!)

FULLBACK F****D!

Posted '8:50 am bells' Friday 16th September 2011

"DODGY KNEE?---WOT DODGY KNEE???"

News haz reached 'The Geordie Times' that wor latest and much needed recruit Davide Santon is sidelined with wot looks like a cartilage injury, withoot kickin' a baall in anger for the forst team yet! (He was an unused sub at QPR last Monday?)
Strangely? he was OK to play 70 minutes the next day for the resorves in their six-nil thrashin' of Norwich at Whitley Park?
(SO! why didn't he play @ Loftus Road then???)

Apparentleee!---he injured his (wot we've nuw foond oot!) 'dodgy right knee' in trainin' the day after the resorve game!
(IT CUD ANLY HAPPEN TO US!)

ARE THEY TRYIN' TO TELL US SOMETHIN'???

Posted '9:15 am bells' Thorsday 16th September 2011

The 'NEWCASTLE UNITED' sign that sat proudly on it's own for many years, on the roof of the East Stand, (until it waz recently 'wrecked'!) haz now been replaced with the above!
St. James' Park haz now been well and trueleee! 'RECT!'

THE GEORDIE TIMES---ONLINE ***************FIFTEEN THOOSAND HITS!

Posted '2:10 pm bells' Wednesday 15th September 2011

THE N.U.F.C.
ARCHIVE WEBSITE
FOR GEORDIE
EXILES AROOND
THE WORLD!

"TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER!---WHEY AYE MAAN!"

AND BEYOND!

The Geordie Times haz just reached anotha landmark az we have had wor 15,000th hit today!
Special thanx to aall wor reeeders!
The USA leads wor owerseas visitors with 1,794 hits to date, followed by The Republic of Ireland on 444 and in thord place iz Greece with 385!

We have now had hits from 111 countries in total aroond the world (plus Mars!)

And a waam welcome to some of wor more recent visitors from far and wide!
HELLO! MOLDOVA!---HELLO! YEMEN---HELLO! VENEZUELA!---HELLO ZAMBIA!

RESORVES RUN RIOT!---MAGPIES 6 CANARIES 0

Posted '10:30 am bells' Wednesday 14th September 2011

DAN GOSLING

The Toon resorves ran riot yesterday afternoon when they hammered The Canaries of Norwich 6-0 @ Whitley Park, Benton.
Unfortunatally The Geordie Times wasn't there as we were still on the train retornin' from QPR when the match kicked off @ '1:00 bells'

Goals from Dan Gosling (2)(1 pen),  Gregg McDermott, Micheal Richardson, Ryan Donaldson and finally Yven Moyo in stoppage time completed wor best ever win in the Resorve Premya Leege in 12 years!  

QPR 0 THE TOON 0---'IT'S ELECTRYFYIN'!

Posted '8:15 pm bells' Tuesday 13th September 2011

"A VIEW TO DIE FOR!?---IT'S ELECTRIFYIN'!"

Housed in The School End Upper Tier the away fans gave the team a rousin' reception as they ran oot in their 'aall blacks' change strip


Aall eyes were of course on Joey 'Yee Naa Who' who was mekin' hiz home debut for the 'Hoops' in wot torned oot to be a reeel bore draw.
If it was truely aaful to watch on the box then it was even worse to be there, but the 1,850 Toon fans present made their voices hord in the 16,211 crowd.

Before the game we'd heeded for the ootskirts of Shepherds Bush to the Thatched House boozer where there were aboot ten locals in the bar.

Afta a few (expensive!)liquid refreshments there, it was off to 'The White Horse' nearer to the groond but the anly problem was!---we couldn't get sorved as there were just a handful of barstaff to sorve the hundred or so, of mainly QPR fans!
In the next boozer just alang the road we had more success and managed to porchase a 'prized liquid drink'! before heedin' for the tornstiles!

Like aa say!---the game wasn't ower clever and QPR were p*ss poor with us not much better!

The 'highlight'? of the game was when Steve Taylor wellied the baall ower the roof of the Ellerslie Road Stand to chants of "Steven Taylor over the roof" from the travellin' faithful!

Then, Sammy Ameobi came on with just two minutes to gan to chants of ,"If Sammy scores we're on the pitch!".
'Tongue in cheek', aa pointed oot to one young Toon fans singin' this behind me, that the wire at the front of the visitors enclosure was in fact electrified to stop any pitch invasions! (see top photo)
"Honest!---iz that reet?", he said, but aa just kept a straight face and nodded! 

Amazingly we are now fourth top (above Stoke in Alphabetical order!) and in a Champions League position! (If anly the season could end now!)

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BACK TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY!

Updated '7:30 am bells' Monday 12th September 2011

Wor forst trip of the season to 'The Smoke' takes place  toneet @ '8 bells', when we face QPR in Shepherds Bush in a live 'Sky' televised game.

The 1,850 Toon fans will literally be 'Back to 'School' on Monday' as we are (as usual!) housed in 'The School End Upper Tier' behind the goal for the princely sum of £45 per ticket!  
Aa'm one of the lucky? 'fortunate few' who will have 'a view to die for', as aa have a seat in row three and shud get a 'clear view' of the action!!  (From some seats at the back of the stand you cannit see the goal line!, while otha seats have 'restricted view' written on the tickets!)

A certain guy caalled 'Joey' makes his debut for the home side while we will have at least one debutant in wor line up in the shape of full back Davide Santon.
A victory would take us to the dizzy heights of 4th top and into a Champions League place!

Match report to follow as usual sometime tomorrow when aa get back!?

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