EUROPEAN QUALIFICATION---AZ IT STANDS!

Updated '9:55pm bells' Tuesday 8th May 2012

THE AMSTERDAM ARENA---"WILL WE BE HERE IN MAY 2013???"
(WHERE THE EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL IZ BEIN' PLAYED!)
"OR!---IZ THIS 'WISHFUL THINKIN'-PERHAPS!???"

Results ower the weekend mean that we must now win wor last game away to 'The Toffee Noses of Everton' next Sunday to have any chance of qualifyin' for the Champions League.
This will now anly happen if we win and eetha 'The Arse' lose their final game away to WBA, or! Spors drop at least two points at home to 'The Jackson Jivers of Fulham'

'The OAPs of Chelski', meeenwhile, lost 4-1 away to 'The Liverbirds' toneet and cannot now finish above us!


THE PREMYA LEEGUE---AZ IT STANDS @ '9:55pm bells' Tuesday
(4 Champions League places and 3 Europa League places up for grabs!)


1 The Blue Moonies---
played 37---points 86---goal difference +63--- Champions League place guaranteed

2 The Cockney Reds of Salford---
played 37---points 86---goal difference +55---
Champions League place guaranteed

3 The Arse---
played 37---points 67---goal difference +24--- Champions League? or Europa League?

4 Happy Harry's Hotspors---
played 37---points 66---goal difference +23---
Champions League? or Europa League?

5 THE TOON---
played 37---points 65---goal difference +7---
Europa League? or Champions League?

6 The Kings Road OAPs of Chelski---
played 37---points 61---goal difference +18---
Europa League? or Champions League? (cannit now finish above The Toon and can anly qualify for The Champions League if they win the final in Munich!)

7 The Toffee Noses---
played 37---points 53---goal difference +8--- 
cannit qualify for Europa League or Champions League

8 The Liverbirds---
played 37---points 52---goal difference +8---
Europa League qualifiers by virtue of winnin' the League Cup---cannit qualify for the Champions League

THE TOON 0 THE BLUE MOONIES 2

Posted '8:50am bells' Monday 7th May 2012

"WEBB OF DECEIT!"

THE TOON ATTACK THE LEAZES END (1st half)

Whey!---we gave it wor best shot!---didn't we!?
A game that waz winable, lost in the last 20 minutes through a Toure Yaya 'brace', the last one comin' in the final minute to send us to a 2-0 defeat and The Blue Moonies closer than ever to the title.

The ref Howard Webb didn't help wor cause with soft bookins against first, Ben Arfa orly on and then Tiote and Perch, which meant that they aall had to be very careful not to get a 2nd yellow and dismisal.
Aall three yellows were for trivial offences and the record crowd in the rebuilt St James' Park (by one!), let their feelins known to him by loud booin' and whistles! (it waz a shockin' display from the man in black!)

Wor three strikers never reeely got goin', although we did have chances to tek the lead with the visitors lookin' very nervy from the start. Ben Arfa's effort for example, which looked like gannin in, was torned roond the post by Hart in the Blue Moonies goal.

It waz 'even stevens' 'til the deadlock waz broken and even a defeat didn't entirely finish off wor Champions League aspirations az we could still de it on the final day of the season next Sunday @ Goodison Park az anly TWO POINTS seperate us from The Arse and Spors in third and fourth! (both The Arse and Spors could anly draw ower the weekend, droppin' valuable points!)

Aa naa av said this before!---but who would EVER have believed that we would STILL have a chance of qualifyin' for the Champions League 'holy grail' by the last day of the season!???

Toon team: Krul, Perch (Ferguson 74), Williamson, Coloccini, Santon, Ben arfa (Shola Amiobi 74), Cabaye, Tiote (Ryan Taylor 82), Gutierrez, Cisse, Ba

Attendance: 52,389 (3,200 Blue Moonies)
(A record crowd at rebuilt groond, beatin' the SMBs crowd by 'one'!) (where was he/she at that game!?)  

'THE GEORDIE TIMES' 100 PUB CRAWL CHALLENGE!---ONE HUNDRED AND TWO! DOON!---NONE TO GAN!

Final update: 9:00am bells' Monday 7th May 2012

A Toon fan stands with his arms ootstreached in the doorway of   'The Newcastle Arms' after 'The Fiorentina flood fiasco!'

"Iz it still rainin'?---Like?"---he asks!

Forst of aall!---can aa say a very special 28,000 thank yoooz to wor regular and 'loyal' bloggers from the 124 countries and territories that have now visited us from the fower corners of the globe (and beyond!) (Rwanda in Africa bein' wor latest visitors!)

Az most of yiz aalready naa, 'The Geordie Times Tipplers' attempted to de sommik that we think nebody had ever done before!?--- to visit 100 pubs and clubs within 20 minutes waalkin' distance of St James' Park<("and aalways will be!") on matchdays this season and drink a pint of  'lush liquid lubricant' in each and every one of them! 

To be porfectly honest with yooo!, we HAD ne idea if there WERE 100 within waalkin' distance of the groond---SO!---there waz anly one way to find oot!---wasn't there!----and there WAZ! (easily!)

The participants/plonkies! were as follows!
'Fink the mad-sad groundhopper', 'Grumpy Stumpy' and 'Norman the Cowboy Plumber' (pictured above in a soakin' wet hooped 'T' shirt!) (he's 'hard' yi naa!)


We visited another 2 new 'liquid lubrication locations', before and after the Stoke game on Saturday 21st April to complete the list, and history waz made in 'The Star' when wor ONE HUNDREDTH! 'Tonsil Ticklin' Tavern' was chaalked off in just TWENTY GAMES! (an average of FIVE new boozers a game!)
The most expensive waaterin hole waz 'Bar 28', which iz where the old 'Blackett' pub waz @  FOWER POOND FORTY a pint! ('Grumpy Stumpy' got them!) ("ha! ha!")
The cheapest, by the way, iz 'The Bee Hive'  and 'Pumphreys' doon 'The Bigg Market @ £1.45 a pint! (aa got those by the way!---a'm not f*****' daft!)

For the shear 'hell of it' we did another 2 waaterin holes before wor final home game against The Blue Moonies of Manchester yesterday to take wor seasons total to 102 visited!

The records there to be broken next season lads and lasses!


"AND NOW YOOO'D BETTER BELIEVE US!"

'THE GEORDIE TIMES' ROUTE TO THE SUMMIT!---
VIA THE GREEN LINE!

If we were climbin' Moont Everest we would now be at the summit!
However!---we have to tell yoo that we have absoluteleee NE intention of deein' this in the foreseeable future as there are NE PUBS? on this Himalayan ootpost!----so wots the point of climbin' it!????



It shud be noted that EVERY drinkin' den visited  waz  within a 20 minute waalk of St James' Park with 'The Waaterline' on the quayside the furthest away! (and 'Shearers' the closest!)

We have now completed a century of 'waaterin holes' and this 'historic moment' came at preciseleee '6:30pm bells' on Saturday 21st April in 'The Star' on Westgate Road! 


PUBS & CLUBS VISITED IN THE 100 PUB CRAWL CHALLENGE----102! (final coont!)

Match number 1---
The Toon 0  Fiorentina 0---
Friendly (match abandoned!---pitch flooded!)

001 THE MONKEY BAR (MARKET LANE)
002 LADY GREY (formerly THE ADELPHI)
003 THE WELLY (DUKE OF WELLINGTON)
004 THE COMPANIONS CLUB (formerly THE LABOUR CLUB)
005 THE STRAA'BERRY (THE STRAWBERRY)
006 THE TOON ARMS (THE NEWCASTLE ARMS)

Match number 2---
The Toon 0  The Arse 0----
Premier League

007 POPOLO'S
008 THE BACCHUS
009 FITZYZ (FITZGERALDS)




Match number 3---
The Toon 2  The Jackson Jivers of Fulham 1
Premier League

010 THE UNION ROOMS
011 THE BEE HIVE
012 BUTLERS
013 THE CLOCK (DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND)
014 SOHO
015 FLUID BAR & KITCHEN


Match number 4---
The Toon 3 Tandoori Chicken Takeaway Rovers 1
Premier League

016 THE BODEGA
017 TILLY'S
018 ASPERS CASINO BAR
019 THE LABOUR CLUB
020 THE THREE BULLS (KNACKERS!)


Match number 5
The Toon  2   Harry's Hotspurs  2
Premier League

021 THE HOTSPUR
022 THE CROWS NEST
023 SGT. PEPPERS
024 THE JUNCTION 
(formerly 'OLD ORLEANS')
025 ROSIE'S BAR (formerly 'THE DARN CROOK')


Match number 6
The Toon 1  The Blue Wigs  0
Premeir League


026 O'NEILL'S (Originally THE VIC & COMET or 'THE SPIT & VOMIT' as the regulars affectionately used to caall it!)

027 THE HEAD OF STEAM
028 THE LANG BAR (THE LONG BAR)
029 YATESY'Z (YATES WINE LODGE)
030 THE ROSE & CROON (THE ROSE & CROWN)
031 SHARKS CLUB GASTRO BAR
032 THE PORCY (THE PERCY ARMS)


Match number 7
The Toon 2   The Toffee Noses 1
Premier League

033 THE BLACK GARTER
034 THE PADDYS CLUB (THE IRISH CLUB)
035 THE TRENT HOOSE (TRENT HOUSE)

"SANCTUARY!"

036 ITALIAN ATTITUDE (since renamed BAR LOCO)
037 LANDMARK
038 MADDISONS
039 HYENA COMEDY CAFE & BAR
040 GOOSE


Match number 8
The Toon 0  The Kings Road Pensioners 3
Premier League

041 SHEARERS
042 THE BLACK BULL
043 FLEET STREET (formerly THE PRINTERS PIE)
044 THE LOUNGE (formerly THE GEORDIE PRIDE)
045 GOTHAM TOWN
046 RAFFERTYS (formerly THE NORTH BRITISH)


Match number 9
The Toon 0 Swanzee 0
Premier League

047 THE CENTURION

048 NEWCASTLE HERO

049 THE DOG AND PARROT (formerly THE GOLDEN FLEECE)
050 ECLIPSE (formerly THE DURHAM OX)


Match number 10
The Toon 2  The Baggie Troosers 3
Premier League

051 THE FORTH
052 TOWN WALLS
053 THE MILE CASTLE
054 No. 28 BAR




Match number 11
The Toon 3  The Cockney Reds 0
Premier League


055 THE KEEL ROW
056 INDIGO
057 BANNATYNE
058 OPERA
059 BEYONDMatch number 12
The Toon 2  Tandoori Chicken Takeaway Rovers 1
FA Cup 3rd roond

060 THE VILLA VIC(TORIA)
061 THE MARLBOROUGH CLUB
062 RENDEZ VOUS
063 TOKYO
064 THE BRIDGE HOTEL


Match number 13
The Toon 1  Steptoe & Son Rangers 0
Premier League

065 THE FIVE SWANS (Formerly LUCKYS BAR)
066 PACIFIC
067 LYH
068 THE NORTHUMBERLAND ARMS
069 TIGER TIGER
070 THE OLD GEORGE


Match number 14
The Toon 2 
The Spanish 'Villa' Holiday Home XI 1
Premier League

071 PUMPHREYS

072 CITY VAULTS
073 SAM JACKS



Match number 15
The Toon 2   The Wounded Wolves 2
Premier League

074 THE QUAYSIDE
075 BOB TROLLOP

076 CHASE
077 THE SLUG AND LETTUCE
078 RED HOOSE (RED HOUSE)
079 COSY JOES



Match number 16
The Toon 1 The SMBs 1
Premier League

080 SINNERS
081 PLAYERS BAR
082 MOOD
083 THE CHARLES GREY
084 STAND


Match number 17
The Toon 1  The Canary Custard Crumbles 0
Premier League

085 THE PITCHER AND PIANO
086 LA TASCA
087 THE WAATERLINE (THE WATERLINE)
088 THE EYE ON THE TYNE
089 BROAD CHARE (formely THE BALTIC TAVERN)
090 AKENSIDE TRADER
091 BABUCHO




Match number 18
The Toon 2 The Liverbirds 0
Premier League

092 THE HANCOCK

093 NORTH TERRACE                   

094 BARLUGA

095 CROWN POSADA



Match number 19
The Toon 2  'Ne where near Bolton', Wanderers 0
Premier League

096 THE TELEGRAPH       
097 JALOU
098 REVOLUTION

Match number 20
The Toon 3  'The Pullis P*ss Potts of Stoke 0
Premier League

099 ALVINOS                                        
100 THE STAR 




Match number 21 
The Toon 0  The Blue Moonies2
Premier League

101 BROWNS
102 LAS  IGUANAS                                             



FOR PHOTOS OF AALL THE 'LIQUID LUBRICATION LOCATIONS' VISITED, 'CLICK' ONTO---

 '100 PUB CRAWL CHALLENGE PHOTOS'  AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE! 

286 brockhall academy blackburn

(Ground number 286)
Date of First Visit: 5th May 2012

Brockhall Academy, Brockhall Village, Near Blackburn

BLACKBURN ROVERS U18s  2

NEWCASTLE UNITED U18s  0

National Play Offs semi final

Attendance: 120 (estimated) (6 Toon saddos!)

“LOONY TOONS!”

The convoy of cars from Tyneside arrived in Brockhall Village near Blackborn for this Under 18s semi final clash @ Blackborns trainin’ ground complex for the prize of a place in the National final.

(“Er!”—the ‘convoy’ consisted of ‘The Caped Crusaders’ ‘Batmobile’ and ‘Blondie Alan’s’ Ford Fiesta with six saddos inside in total in the two vehicles!) (includin’ little ol’ me!)

The game waz bein’ played on the site of a former lunatic asylum! and the ‘six sick saddos’  were here to clock up a new ground to add to wor ‘list’ on the never endin’ trail!

So Brockhall Academy waz indeed a VERY appropriate new ground to add to ‘the MAD-sad groundhoppers list! (sic!)

A bit of useless information!: >One of wor number, namely, Michael, had even travelled back from a months holiday in India for this one (“er!”—he actually got back a week before!) and he telt us that he did a boat trip up the sacred river Ganges where dead body parts were floatin’ past az they made their way upstream (whey!---the body parts wouldn’t be alive---would they!?)

ANYWAY!---The game started @ 12:30 bells and The Toon kicked off in the direction of the changin’ rooms where the old asylum used to stand (so we were telt!)

At the other end there waz a smaall hill behind the goal where Peter Beardsley and some of the coachin’ staff positioned themsels for a better view (behind some nettin’!)

However! The Toon Under 18s never got oot of the blocks and the home side took the lead after just two minutes play when Toon goalie Jonathan Mitchell dropped the baall after wot looked like a foul on him, but the officials waved away any protests az O’Sullivan tapped the baall into the empty net for the home side.

They then dominated for lang periods and doubled their lead through O’Sullivan again just before the half time interval, with The Toon havin’ ne answer in reply, az we had precisely NE shot on target in the entire half az they attacked ‘The Nut Hoose End’!<(it had to be folks!)

The 2^nd half waz played oot with Blackborn again makin’ most of the play, but with ne fortha score they progressed to the National final where they will play Fulham.

The jorney yem waz spent listenin’ to the results comin’ through on ‘Radio 5 Live’ where the commentator telt us that Hereford (the team we aall love to hate for obvious reasons!) were relegated from the Futbaall Leegue thanx to Barnet’s win at Burton!

THREE CHEERS FOR THEM!

“HIP HIP HORRAY!---HIP HIP HORRAY!---HIP HIP HORRAY!”

©Fink™ (The mad-sad grJundhJpper!)

THE TOON v THE BLUE MOONIES---TODAY!

Posted '9:15am bells' Sunday 6th May 2012

ST JAMES' PARK FROM BARRACK ROAD

Aall eyes will be on Geordieland @ '1:30 bells' this afternoon az the most important game of the season gets underway in front of a 'packed to the rafters' St James' Park<(and aalways will be!)

Championships and Champions League qualification iz at stake and I'm sure we will give it wor best shot!

Shud the miracle happen and we win!, then for a brief period at least, we will sit in THORD place az Spors kick off half an hour later, away to Villa and we can but hope that they can de us a favour and get at least a draw?

The pressure iz aall on wor visitors however and a'm sure a certain red nosed Glaswegian Jock will be norvously watchin' events unfold on the telly before they play Swanzee @ '4 bells'!

The eyes of the world will be on us---let battle commence!

We continue wor pub crawl even though we've done the '100 challenge' and hope to de three or fower more this afternoon to end the season on a high! (for photos of the 100 waaterin holes we have visited, gan to top of page and 'click onto '100 pub crawl challenge')

Full match (and of course!) pub crawl report ot follow much later on Monday when we sober up!

BLACKBORN U18s 2 THE TOON U18s 0---YOUTH NATIONAL SEMI FINAL

Posted '9:50pm bells' Saturday 5th May 2012

LOONY TOONS!---
(Brockhall Academy---ground number 286)

The convoy of cars from Tyneside arrived in Brockhall Village near Blackborn for this U18s semi final clash @ Blackborn's trainin' groond today for the prize of a place in the National final.("Er!"---the 'convoy' consistin' of The Caped Crusaders' 'Batmobile' and 'Blondie Alan's' Ford Fiesta! with six saddos inside in total!) (includin' little ol' me!)

The game waz bein' played on the site of a former lunatic asylum! and the 'six sick saddos', were here to 'clock up' a new groond to add to wor groonds list on the never endin' trail!
So Brockhall Academy waz indeed! a very appropriate new groond to add to the 'MAD'-sad groundhoppers list! (sic!)

However!---The Toon U18s never got oot of the blocks and the home side took the lead after just two minutes play when Toon goalie Jonathan Mitchell dropped the baall after what looked like a foul on him, but the officials waved away any protests az O'Sullivan tapped the baall into the empty net for the home side.
They then dominated for lang periods and doubled their lead through O'Sullivan again just before the half time interval with The Toon havin' ne answer in reply, az we had precisely NE shots on goal in the entire half!

The second half waz played oot with Blackborn again makin' most of the play, but with ne fortha score they progressed to the National final where they will play eetha Fulham or Leicester.

Attendance: 120 (approx)

The jorney home waz spent listenin' to the results comin' through on 'Radio 5 Live' and with 'The Arse' anly gettin' a 3-3 draw against 'Delias Custard Crumbles of Norwich', we have the opportunity of gan up to THORD PLACE in the premya leegue shud results gan wor way tomorrow afternoon.

There's the little matter of beatin' Man City forst of course to de this---(with Spors aalso not winnin' in the process!)----but dafter things have happened! (wor 2-0 win at Chelski in midweek for example!)

OH!---and YES!-----to roond off wor day---Hereford (the team we aall 'love to hate' for obvious reasons!) were relegated  from the futbaall leegue thanx to Barnet's win at Burton!

THREE CHEERS FOR THEM! ---
"HIP!--HIP!---HORRAY!--HIP!--HIP!--HORRAY!--HIP!--HIP!--HORRAY!"

Full 'mad-sad groundhoppers' match report on the above game to follow later on this week! 

CONVOY TO BLACKBORN!---BLACKBORN U18s v THE TOON U18s---TODAY!

Posted '8:30am bells' Saturday 5th May 2012


"CONVOY!"

There are two massive games ower the next two days with the forst one takin' place this afternoon!---And NO! a'm NOT! taalkin' aboot the FA Cup final @ Wembley between 'The Liverbirds' and 'The Chelski Pensioners'---a'm taalkin' aboot wor Under 18s 'semi final play off' game against Blackborn @ eetha their Brockhall trainin' groond OR! their academy @ 12:30 bells this dinnertime! (we'll find oot when we get there!)

???

Beware of huge traffic jams doon the 'A1M' and 'A66' from '9 bells' onwards az a 'convoy' of cars iz travellin' ower the Pennines for this one in the shape of --Er!--'The Caped Crusaders' 'batmobile' and 'Blondie Alan's' Ford Focus! and we hope to arrive in good time for the kick off where a huge crowd of 100 plus iz expected!

Then!--of course, tomorrow dinnertime we take on 'The Blue Moonies' in 'Title Decider Day' @ St James' Park<(and aalways will be!) where a win for us would cement wor claim for a Champions League place. (or not az the case may be!?)
The whole of the red half of London will be rootin' for us az well (er! that's 'Man U'---NOT! 'The Arse'!) and shud wor visitors 'nick it', then it will be them who will surelee snatch the title from their arch rivals!
Sunday will certainleee be a very interestin' day!

A selloot crowd of 52,000 plus, will be there to witness it of course and if the groond waz big enough, 100,000 plus would be present, we are sure! 

THE WINO WONDERS!---WOR NEW AWAY STRIP!

Posted '8:45pm bells' Friday 4th May 2012
(aboot five hours late!---like!---"hic!")

"AARRGGHH!"---"IT'S WOR NEW AWAY STRIP!"
"IT'S ENOUGH TO DRIVE YOO TO DRINK!"

The Toon have just released the design of wor new 'wino wonders' away strip, which we presume will be worn in wor final away game against 'The Toffee Noses' of Everton' in the final game of the season on Sunday week!

The Geordie Times iz a canny few hours behind other NUFC websites that published this a few hours ago, but wor excuse iz simple!---we've been oot on the hoy this afternoon and have just staggered ("er!--sorry!") 'retorned' (completeleee sober--by the way!---"hic!") to wor heed office back yem to give you this exclusive? news 'second hand first' az per usual! 

"PASS THE CORKSKREW PLEEEEZE!"  ("Hic!")

BRENDAN FOSTER 'TIME (waist!)LINE'----SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!

Posted '2:15pm bells' Friday 4th May 2012

On this day in 1974 we played in the FA Cup final against The Liverbirds @ Wembley.

Before the match and at approx '2:15 bells', Toon fan and Olympic gold medalist distance runner Brendan Foster won a race aroond the Wembley track in a black n white striped vest given to him by David Bedford, an arch rival at the time.


After hiz win and with huge cheers from the Toon fans he hoyed hiz shirt into the jubulant crowd!
THAT!---waz the anly thing we won that day and the rest az they say iz black day in wor history!  

Az coincedence would have it, Brendan waz spotted in the concourse by The Geordie Times chief paparazzi photographer at half time durin' the Chelski game on Wednesday neet and took this 'exclusive photo below!
(aalso see match report below)

Spot the difference between the 1974 photo and the 2012 photo!

"THEN!"
IN HIZ NUMBER 10 VEST

"AND NOW!"
10 STONE HEAVIER!

THE KINGS ROAD OAPs 0 THE TOON 2

Updated '7:30pm bells' Thorsday 3rd May 2012

Forst of aall, apologeeez for the late postin' of this match report!
This iz because we have just got back from London after last neets brilliant result and are still slightly 'comotosed' with the hootch!

THE TOON ATTACK THE SHED END.
VIEW FROM THE 'CHEAP SEATS'
(FIFTY QUID!)

CISSE (on the left just inside the box) volleys home hiz
forst goal @ The Matthew Harding End

Papiss Demba Cisse opened the scorin' for The Toon in the 19th minute of the forst half with a sweet left footed volley on the edge of the box from a Santon pass which gave Cech in the home goal ne chance and we went in 1-0 up at the interval.

It's the half time interval and celebrity Toon fan
Brendan 'I've got a canny gut now' Foster
enjoys a pint of 'liquid lubrication'!

Then in the second period a bad heed injury to Cheick Tiote ten minutes into the half held the game up for ten minutes and he waz replaced by Ryan Taylor after lengthy treatment.
We held wor own after this, with the home side bombardin' The Toon goal for the equaliser, but we held firm and then in the 100th minute (10th minute of stoppage time due to Tiote's injury) Shola Ameobi chested a baall doon into the path of Cisse, and he hit an unbelievable and unstoppable 'goal of the season' shot with a right footed volley this time, from ootside the box, which 'flew like a bullet' into the Chelski net at the Shed End, where we were housed.

CISSE (bottom of picture) volleys home his second
'wonder goal' @ The Shed End

And there were wild celebrations in wor section az Papiss 'danced' a jig of delight in front of us! (even Chelski's Didier Drogba applauded the wonder goal!)

Much more to follow on this when aa get mee breath back!---"YAHOOOO!"

(Deep breath!)-----Unfortunatelee Spors aalso won and we remain in fifth place behind them on goal difference and anly one point behind The Arse with anly two games to gan in the fight for the Champions League. The OAP's of Chelski are now fower points adrift of us in sixth place.

Toon team: Krul, Perch, Santon, Williamson, Simpson, Coloccini, Tiote (Ryan Taylor 63), Gutierrez, Ben Arfa (Obertan 87), Cabaye, Ba (Shola Ameobi 75), Cisse

Attendance: 41,559 (2,000 or so delighted Toon fans!) 

* CORRECTION!: Apparentlee Cisse's 2nd goal was scored in the FOURTH minute of injury time and not the TENTH minute az reported above!------and 'The Geordie Times' 'excuse for gettin' it  wrang???----WE BLAME THE DRINK AZ USUAL!!!

In other news---the resorves lost 3-0 @ Blackborn's trainin' groond this afternoon in their last game of the season ('2 bells' start)
Unfortunately we could'nt get there az wor train didn't get back from London in time!