THE TOON 2 TANDOORI CHICKEN ROVERS 1

Posted '11:00 am bells' Sunday 8th January 2012

TOON FRY THE CHICKENS!

A last gasp goal from Spiderman saved the day for us and prevented an unwanted extra jorney across the Pennines via Brough and Kikby Stephen for a replay @ Ewood Park.

In complete contrast to wor game against Man U on Wednesday the forst half was absolutleee terrible and typical of The Toon in the FA Cup!

With man of the moment Demba Ba missin' through African Cup duty and Shola on the subs bench, we had ne recognised centre forward to put the baall in the net! (Tiote was missin' az well, az he iz aallso on African Cup duty)

The bottom club in the premya leegue actually took the lead in the 35th minute when Goodwillie (glad it's not my surname!) stabbed the baall home @ The Gallowgate End to gan in one-nil at the break.

Level 7 wasn't open for this game and there were large gaps in the lower section az well, not helped by the fact that Blackborn had anly brung a pathetic 300 or so to the game! (many decided to boycott it, in protest at the Indian board (who famously own a chain of tandoori chicken takaways!) and (of course!) because of their beleagered manager Steve Keen!---great supporters---"EH!?")

Things livened up in the second period followin' a 56th minute substitution which saw Shola replace Obertan who was oot of sorts and he made a difference straight away.
However!--it was a Ben Arfa wonder goal in the 70th minute that saved the day, when he he beat aboot six Rovers players and hit a left footed 'rocket shot' which flew past their keeper to level the scores.

THE BLACKBORN TEAM LINE-UP!
(AFTA THE MATCH!)

And then deep into injury time when a replay looked certain, and just like in the comic book stories, SPIDERMAN popped up (Gutierrez) and after a 'one-two' with Leon Best he chipped the baall into the corner of the net to finally 'fry' The Tandoori Chickens of Blackborn and send us wild with relief!---and into the fourth roond draw!

It cud anly happen to us!

Toon team: Krul, Simpson (R Taylor 60), Williamson, Coloccini, Santon, Gutierrez, Abeid (Gosling 87), Cabaye, Obertan (Shola Ameobi 56), Ben Arfa, Best  

Attendance: 30,876 (300 Tandoori Chickenites!)

'Geordie Times 100 Pub Crawl Challenge' update to follow later!

TWENTY ONE TODAY!

Posted '10:00 pm bells' Saturday 7th January 2012

FORST OF AALL"!----We came back from 1-0 doon to win 2-1 in a (less than!) thrillin' FA Cup tie this afternoon!
Yi'll have to excuse me---but a'v had rather tooooo much 'liquid lubrication' this afternoon on wot haz torned oot to be a very special day!
Full and comreeehensive match report to follow tomorrow mornin when aa sober up! 
In the meeentime we have anotha landmark to celebrate? in The Geordie Times latest 'attendance' figures!
(see below!)

The Geordie Times haz 'come of age' az we have just received wor 21,000th hit and we (yet again!) thank aall of you for 'bloggin in' to this site

Recent visitors include: TANZANIA---ALGERIA---COSTA RICA and JORDON---"HELLO! TO AALL OF YOO!"

THE TOON v THE TANDOORI CHICKEN ROVERS

Posted '8:50 am bells' Saturday 7th January 2012

CAN WE REPEAT WOR FA CUP VICTORY FROM 102 YEARS AGO!?
(The dogs name iz 'REX' by the way!)

Today @ '3 bells' we face the bottom club in the premya leegue in the FA Cup 3rd roond @ St James' Park.
Nuw yoo might think we are tekin' the p*ss by caallin' them the above name, but it just gans to show that if you get the wrang owners runnin' your club you're in deep! deep! trouble az the relegation bound Rovers of Blackborn will ne doubt testify!

The Indian based 'Venkys Tandoori Chicken Takeaways', who own their club (hence wor new name for them!) havvent got a f*****' clue aboot futbaall and they even admitted that they'd NEVA even been to a futbaall match in their lives!, before they bought Blackborn, which sez it aall aboot just who iz runnin' wor clubs theeeze days!

Indeed board meetings are conducted from somewhere on the Indian sub continent by 'video link' and az we aall naa, the fans? arnt happy with the 'Jock manager' they appointed, when they sacked Big Fat Sam ower a year ago!

Level 7 iz shut for this game az a smaallish crowd iz antisipated, with the visitors expected to bring up less than 1,000 diehards, who will ne doubt slag of their beleaguered manager at the forst opportunity!

Many Rovers fans (sorry!--Tandoori Chickenites!) are plannin' to boycott the game and follow cash-strapped local non leegue side Chorley instead! (great supporters!--"EH!?")

On paper, we shud win, BUT! this iz NUFC and the FA CUP! we are taalkin' aboot, so we'll take nowt for granted!---Lets just hope we are in the 4th roond draw on Sunday!

Ne news of wot the team might be, yet!?


'The Geordie Times100 Pub Crawl Challenge' today, will start off @ 'The Villa Vic' in Rye Hill, which iz off the beaten track a bit, but STILL within the 20 minute waalkin' distance limit from the groond. (Rules are rules!---every pub we visit MUST be within 20 mins of the groond!)

We havvent been in this pub for at least 30 years! and ne doubt it will have changed a bit since the last time we were here!? (Aboot 'six bob' a pint back then!---me thinx?) (30 pence!)
This will be waaterin' hole number SIXTY incidentleee!) (hope it's still open!?)

Match and pub crawl report to follow much later toneet az usual

THE TOON 3 THE COCKNEY REDS of SALFORD 0 !

Updated '12:30 pm bells' Thorsday 5th January 2012

An absolutleee brilliant performance and result from 'the black 'n' whites' who (literally!) BLEW  'The Cockney boys' away in the gale force conditions!.
Wearin' wor new 'Virgin Money' logo on the front of wor shirts we kicked off towards The Leazes End and it was obvious from the word 'go' that we were gannin for 'the jugular'

Demba Ba (centre of picture) volleys home

Who else but wor hero of the moment Demba Ba to open the scorin' with a fantastic forst goal on the half hour mark. He hit a thunderous volley that gave Lindegaard in the visitors goal 'ne chance' az the baall rocketed past him into the net! 

Yohan Cabaye (2nd Toon player from right) scores 2nd goal

A Yohan Cabaye free kick orly in the second period @ The Gallow-gate End doubled wor advantage az the wind howled and rain came 'doon in buckets'!
His superb effort from the edge of the box hit the underside of the bar 'Geoff  Hurst style' and ricocheted ower the goal line to give us breathin' space. (divvint naa if the linesman was Russian?---but he gave it!)

'Hair Transplant Man' Rooney and the rest of the Man U team looked totally devastated and their misery was completed in the final minute with a brilliant heeded own goal by Phil Jones, which left Lindegaard stranded az the wind blew the baall into the empty net! The look on hiz face said it aall---("Will Fergie EVER pick me again!")

Phil Jones heeds past his own keeper for The Toon's 3rd goal 

Lang before the end there were huge empty gaps in the Cockney Reds Supporters Club seats in Level 7
(It's a lang way to London and Cornwall yi naa!) and their normally noisy support was reduced to deathly silence and anly aboot 1,000 of them remained 'til the final whistle!

If a'd telt you before the match that we would win 3-0 you would have said that I was 'VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS'!

Toon team: Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, Santon, R Taylor, Cabaye (Perch 79), Tiote, Gutierrez, Ba (Obertan 90), Shola Ameobi (Best 75)  

Attendance: 52,299 (3,000 unhappy Londoners/Cornishmen/Welshmen/etc/etc!)

The front page of toneets 'Ronny Gill' sez it aall!

THE TOON v THE COCKNEY REDS of SALFORD

Updated '3:15 pm bells' Wednesday 4th January 2012

STRAWBERRY PLACE***THE STRAWBERRY PUB
& THE GALLOWGATE END  @ NEET!

In a few hours time we face Man U toneet @ St James' in a '8:00 bells' start, which iz live on Sky.
A selloot 52,000 plus crowd will be in the groond includin' aroond 3,000 from 'god naaz where' to follow The Salford Boys in level 7 of The Leazes End.


Toon probable team line up: Krul, Simpson, Coloccini, Williamson, Ryan Taylor, Obertan, Tiote, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Ba, Best

There have been some crazy and unexpected scorelines durin' the Xmas period, not least the bottom club Blackborn's win against toneets opponents @ 'The Theatre of Muppets'

News that we cud have a new sponsor on the front of wor shirts toneet have reached us by carrier pigeon and we understand that the 'Northern Rock' logo cud be replaced by the 'Virgin Money' logo instead! (better that!, than a certain sports company brand that waz rumoured---"EH!")

'The Geordie Times 100 pub crawl challenge' continues @ Lloyds Bar in 'The Gate', if anybody wants to join us in wor thirst quenchin' quest this afternoon (bar number 55 on the list!)
(Click onto '100 pub crawl challenge' @ top of page for photos of aall the 'liquid lubrication locations' visited so far!)

Match and pub crawl report to follow much later!

NEWSFLASH!

Updated '1:15 pm bells' Tuesday 3rd January 2012

The Geordie Times can exclusivleee reveeel (second hand!) that toneets resorves game @ Blue Flames, Benton against 'The Cockney Reds of Salford' haz been POSTPONED!---SO!---divvint gan!
We can anly assume that it's because of the gale force winds that are sweepin' Tyneside az I write this, az I look across 'the sacred river'!

More on this to follow later, when we find oot why? (second hand of course!)

Updated '1:40 pm bells'
Just foond oot that A WAATERLOGGED PITCH iz the reason the match haz been caalled off!

Northern League toneet!
'The Bad Blue Boys' v 'The Bay City Rollers'  

Coz the Toon resorve match haz been caalled off we've decided to take in 'The Bad Blue Boys v 'The Bay City Rollers' derby between Dunston UTS (The Fed) and Whitley Bay toneet instead @ Federation Park, (aka UTS Park) Dunston (on the way to the Metro Centre from the A1)

A good crowd is antisipated az 'The Bay' aalways bring a good followin'
Kick off iz @ '7:30 bells', so get yerselz alang if yiv nowt better to de! (admission is a fiver and half price for concessions)

Posted '10:30 pm bells'
Full time: The entertainin' derby match ended 'one's a piece' in front of an estimated 250 crowd, played in freeeezin' conditions!

GEORDIE TIMES STATS FOR 2011

Posted '1:30 pm bells' Monday 2nd January 2012

The Geordie Times had 18,293 pageviews in 2011 givin' us an average of 50.11 per day, which we think iz not bad for a 'nonsense--no nonsense' website like wors!
We are just ordinary fans who gan to extraordinary lengths to watch The Toon and visit new groonds, aalthough az the years gan by it gets harder and harder to de new groonds once we've ticked them off the list.

Last year anly seven new groonds were visited by 'The mad-sad groundhoppers' watchin' the resorves and juniors and NONE! were for  forst team games!

The last new groond for a competitive forst team game was way back in August 2010!, when we played Accrington Stanley away in the Leegue Cup game!

Wor 'Google' world rankin' haz went up az well from 24,085,426 to 16,960,611 now, in the space of just three months (up 7,124,815) and wor 'target' iz to get into the top 15 million by the end of the year! (There are (apparently!)---156,000,000 websites worldwide)
To celebrate this?--and because there are ne matches to watch this afternoon, we're off on the hoy in The Toon!

Once again thanx for your support wherever yoo may be!

MAN U AND FULHAM GAMES ARE SELLOOTS!

Posted '1:50 pm bells' New Years Day 2012


"ST JAMES PARK SINCE 1880---AND AALWAYS WILL BE"!---
FULL MOON NEET TIME VIEW FROM LEAZES PARK














Not suprizingleee wor home game against 'The
Cockney Reds' on Wednesday neet iz a complete selloot, az iz wor allocation for wor London sortie to Craven Cottage, home of 'The Jackson Jivers' on the 15th of this month!

Tickets for wor forthcomin' away leegue game @ Blackborn on the forst of Feb are aalso on sale @ £29 for grown ups, £15 for zimmerframeites and just £7 for sprogs!

THE LIVERBIRDS 3 THE TOON 1

Posted '10:00 am bells' New Years Eve 2011

AT 44 QUID A TICKET--A VIEW NOT! TO DIE FOR!

You just KNEW it wud aall gan wrang when wor manager 'I Beg Your Pardew' said in the 'Ronny Gill', "WE'RE ALSO  ONE OF THE BIG BOYS", comparin' us to the Man U's and Liverpool's of this world and of course it went 'tits up' @ Anfield! 

Haris Vuckic was a suprize inclusion in the Toon's line up at the expense of Leon Best in midfield.

For the forst 20 minutes it was a dull affair with both teams findin' their feet, but then in the 25th minute a 'miracle' happened!----WE SCORED!
Attackin' The Anfield Road End where the Toon fans were housed, Ryan Taylor hoyed a great cross in for Yohan Cabaye to heed on and it looked as though Demba Ba aalso got a touch as the baall flew into the net for wor forst goal here for ower SEVEN YEARS!

It was awkward to see from wor crap vantage point in row 31 in the corner of the stand (see photo) as the sight lines are not very good here, but the stadium annooncer conformed that Demba had got wor goal!---or so we thought? (later to be given as an own goal)

Anyway!--The Toon fans were still celebratin' when just fower minutes later @ 'The Kop End', one of wor three ex players in the Liverbirds side, knaan affectionatally to Toon fans az 'The Poison Dwarf' (NO!--not Andy Pandy!--he's ower six foot taall!) scored the equaliser to dampen wor 'Chris'miss spirit'!
It was one's each at half time

The home side piled on the pressure in the second period and this paid off for them when a dodgy lookin' free kick from 30 yards oot was taken by 'The Poison Dwarf' and his effort deflected off Danny Simpson and into the net to put us behind!

Andy Pandy was gettin' some serious stick from the Toon fans and he responded to this by crashin' a heeder off wor cross bar, but thankfully it rebounded back into play!

It was game ower in the 78th minute when that curse of NUFC Steven Gerrard came off the subs bench and promptly sealed the match for them, with a shot across the box which flew into the corner of Tim Krul's goal!
(he aalways scores against us!)

Neva mind!--there's aalways that easy home game against another "One of the big boys!", Man U next Wednesday!--isn't there!? 
Toon team: Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, R Taylor (Santon 46), Obertan (Sammy Ameobi 84), Tiote, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Vuckic (Ben Arfa 65), Ba
Attendance: 44,372 (The Liverbird's lowest of the season, even though the match waz a 'selloot'?)(2,000 Toon fans)


PS: If yoo still cannit work oot just who 'The Poison Dwarf' iz, he once had an altercation with 'Big Al', wor record goal scorer and came off worse!
Does this ring a BELL!?

THE LIVERBIRDS v THE TOON---TONEET!

Updated '10:10 am bells Friday 30th December 2011

"IT'S A LOCKOOT @ ANFIELD!"
(View of The Kop from Venice Street!---spot the gondola!)

We're off to 'Mickey Mouserland' yet again toneet for wor last game of 2011 and are quietlee confident of gettin' a goal at least! (reeed on!)

The good news iz that Luis Suarez, who faces an eight game ban for racial insults iz aalso banned for this one due to leud hand gestures to Fulham fans orlier this month!

The bad news iz!---we havvent even scored a goal here since December 2004!---That's SIXTEEN goals for them and NONE for us! AND! a 'certain' Andy 'yee naa who'? will ne doubt replace Suarez in the Liverbirds attack!

We've (not suprizingly!) sold wor full allocation of anly two thoosand tickets for the Anfield Road lower tier and the game iz a complete selloot!

This TWICE rescheduled game iz live on 'Sky' and kicks off @ '7:45 bells'

Defender Mike Williamson has definatly made a big difference since he made his come back against Bolton and the probable? NUFC team line up iz az follows:
Krul, Simpson, Colocicini, Williamson, R Taylor, Obertan, Tiote, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Ba, Best?  (not sure aboot Ben Arfa, Davide Santon or Dan Gosling, who iz back from suspension?) (wait and see!)

We are leavin' at dinnertime in 'The Batmobile' and shud be in 'The Clock' dive bar just doon the road from Everton's groond at aroond 'fower bells'!? (That's if it hazzent been 'boarded up' since the last time we were here!)

Az usual, match report to follow much later when we get back! (sometime on News Years Eve!?)
Remember!---The Geordie Times will bring yoo the news, second hand,forst!