WELLINGTON PHEONIX 0 THE TOON 1

Posted '9:38pm bells' Saturday 26th July 2014

The 2nd and final game of the ill fated 'New Zealand Tour' saw 'The Toon' run oot 1-0 winners in Wellington in the orly hours of this mornin', with the anly goal of the game comin' through Yohan Gouffran who scored just before the break, when he heeded home a cross from Vernon Anita!

Next up for the forst team iz the tournament in Jawmany next weekend, when we will be travellin' to Dusseldorf via Amsterdam----sadly withoot both 'Liam from the Lamp' and John 'The Undertaker', who were cruelly taken from us in the Ukraine nine days ago!

Again--a minutes applause waz given to both Liam and John in the 28th and 63rd minute---their ages!

Attendance: 30,968

Sorry if this iz a brief match report, but the tragic events of last week still haunt us!----We will be doin' some 'Geordie Times' archive ground specials in the next week in honour of both super fans!



Watch this space in the next few days!

PS: A NUFC X1 are in action @ Hillsborough this comin' Wednesday against Sheff Wed <(who else on a Wednesday!?)
Kick off '7:45 bells'    

WELLINGTON PHEONIX v THE TOON **** TOMORROW

Posted '1:40pm bells' Friday 25th July 2014

The second and final game of wor ill fated New Zealand tour teks place in Wellington tomorrow at the Westpac Stadium and 27,000 tickets have been sold for this so far. (32,000 capacity)

We will post the score 'on line' in due course when we find oot the result.
Liam 'from the Lamp' waz to send us a match report of this game az well! (wot can we say?)

MH17 *** A WEEK ON

Posted '1:00pm bells' Thorsday 24th July 2014

It seems like anly a couple of days ago, but a week haz now passed since the terrible events in the Ukraine last Thorsday!

We wornt the anly ones to suffer of course az 298 perished in this atrocity
3 families from Holland were completely wiped oot in an instant az well az wor two loyal friends John 'The Undertaker' <(he wore a black suit to games) and Liam 'from the Lamp' <(Liam lived in a block of flats in the 'Big Lamp' area of the Toon, which iz within qwaata of a mile from St James' Park)

We are meetin' in The Strawberry pub in the shadows of St James' on Saturday between 12 and 1 bells for anybody who feels the need to taalk aboot the tragedy

We can anly apologise for not updatin' this site on a regular basis like we used to, but the events of the last 7 days have completely 'knocked the stuffin' out of me and many who knew both of them!

'The Undertaker' and Liam will never be forgotten by us! RIP    

SYDNEY 0 THE TOON 4 (IN DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND)

Posted '12:20pm bells' Tuesday 22nd July 2014

MANAGER ALAN PARDEW AND CLUB CAPTAIN
FABRICIO COLOCCINI PAY TRIBUTE TO JOHN AND LIAM BEFORE THE MATCH

The Toon ran oot easy 4-0 winners in the Forsyth Barr Stadium but of course both Liam 'from the Lamp' and John 'The Undertaker' were sadly missin' from the 10,000 crowd.

Liam waz to e mail me pix of their time there, plus the match report for 'The Geordie Times', but tragically the Ukraine waz as far az they got

We've nicked the pic from anothaa site and it haz to be reported that a minutes silence waz impeccably observed in their memory

De Jong opened the scorin' for us in the 18th, hittin' the baall into an empty net

Riviere got wor 2nd 8 minutes later when he forced the baall home

A minute applause then followed in the 28th minute in memory of Liam who waz just 28 years old

Yanga then made it 3 in the 33rd minute through a wicked deflection

A 2nd minutes applause followed in the 63rd minute for 'The Undertaker' who waz 63

Adam Campbell got wor 4th and last goal in the 82nd minute, beatin' the Sydney keeper at the near post

RIP JOHN AND LIAM  YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN! 

FAIR PLAY TO THE MACKEMS!

Posted '9:00am bells' Monday 21st July 2014

News that Sund'lind fans have help raise ower £20,000 for John 'The Undertaker' and Liam 'from the Lamp' iz a magnanimous gesture from wor fiercest rivals!
This transends futbaall rivalry! fair play to them! and thanx from aall @ 'The Geordie Times' and Toon fans everywhere!

There's anothaa fund set up caalled "flag and funeral costs" which haz been set up by Toon fans!

See www.nufc.com for details of how to donate to both funds!

Family and friends are meetin' @ the Bobby Robson statue @ 12 today to show their respects to the loyalist of Toon fans---aall welcome!

RIP LIAM AND JOHN

JOHN AND LIAM RIP

Posted '12:30pm bells' Saturday 19th July 2014

The shockin' and tragic news that loyal supporters John 'The Undertaker' and Liam 'from the Lamp' lost their lives in the Ukraine air crash when their plane waz shot doon, haz stunned me and aall Toon fans!

They were just goin' to follow their team to New Zealand and paid with their lives!

I don't know wot else to say except that they were both great friends and will be sadly missed!

There waz a minutes silence last neet at Gatesheed Stadium when The Toon resorves took on Gatesheed. A game in which the home side won 2-0

'The Undertaker' (aka 'The Caped Crusader') waz a season ticket holder at BOTH clubs!

Today at Federation Park Dunston there will be anothaa minutes silence to both fans when Dunston play Whitby in a friendly.

Both John and Liam were at Dunston's away friendly last Saturday at Birtley

RIP JOHN AND LIAM

EMMANUEL'S THE MAN!

Posted '1:00pm bells' Thorsday 17th July 2014

Emmanuel Riviere became wor 5th signin' in the transfor window and things are startin' to look a bit brighter now for the new season.

He iz a much needed striker and haz signed from AS Monaco for an undisclosed length of time for an undisclosed fee!

Still ne official news of wethaa Dutch international defender Daryl Janmaat haz signed for us from Feyenoord---but fear not!---'The Geordie Times' will keep yoo posted when the deal gans through (or NOT az the case may be???) 

NUFC SQUAD 2014-2015 *** IN's AND OOT's! *** SO FAR! *** 5 IN! *** 11 OOT! ***

Updated  '1:00pm bells' Thorsday 17th July 2014

JACK COLBACK *** "R U WATCHIN' BLUNDERLAND!?"

"14 DAYS TIL THE CLOSE OF THE TRANSFOR WINDOW!"
("AND COOONTIN'!")

Emmanuel Riviere iz wor latest signin' and joined us from Feyenoord yesterday for an undisclosed fee



IN *** "FIVE!"

Joon 6th  *** Ayoze Perez from Tenerife for £1.5 million

Joon 9th *** Jack Colback from the SMBs for NOWT!

July 1st *** Siam De Jong from Ajax for £6 million

July 13th *** Remy Cabella from Montpellier for a reported fee of £12 million

July 16th *** Emmanuel Riviere from Feyenoord for an undisclosed fee

THAT'S IT FOR THE 'IN's so far!


OOT *** "ELEVEN!"

May *** Luuk De Jong back to Borussia 'Munchin'gladbach from hiz loan deal <(We've scored az many goals for The Toon az he did!)

May *** Loic Remy back to QPR from hiz loan deal

May *** Dan Gosling to Bournemooth for nowt

May *** Michael Richardson

May *** Conor Newton to Rotherham for nowt

May *** Jonathan Mitchell to Derby for nowt

May *** Steve Logan

May *** Brandon Miele

May *** Shola Ameobi

Joon 28th *** James Tavernier to Wigan for an undisclosed fee

July 1st *** Romain Amalfitano <(thank god we wont have to spell hiz name anymore!) to Dijon for nowt

  

("AA TOLD 'IM!") OLDHAM 2 TOON XV111 1

Posted '1:33pm bells' Wednesday 16th July 2014

"RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE!"

TOON FANS HEED THROUGH THE OLDHAM JUNGLE
IN A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR A BOOZER!

"IZ THAT A WAATERIN' HOLE IN THE CLEARING!?"
"SANCTUARY!!!"

The forst pre season friendly of the season took place at a very sunny Boundary Park last neet and it took wor new 'talisman' Siem De Jong just 14 minutes to open hiz goalscorin' account with a cracker from 20 yards after hiz initial free kick on the edge of the Oldham box reboonded nicely for him!

THE DE JONG FREE KICK WHICH LED TO THE GOAL
(NOTE THE TOON FAN AT THE FRONT AALREADY CELEBRATIN'!)

The thooosand or so Toon fans behind the goal celebrated wildly in wot looked like a 4,000 crowd in total! (later given az less than 3,000!?)
Othaa debutant Colback waz aalso on the pitch from the start az The Toon dominated for the forst 30 minutes of the game but then 'downed tools' for the rest of the match! (Perez made hiz debut in the 55th minute)


SOME OF THE 1,000 TOON FANS!


The last 60 minutes waz a lang drawn oot affair and only livened up again when the home sided heeded an equaliser in the 65th minute through Deing, who waz completeleee unmarked!
To be honest it waz hard to tell the teams apart sometimes in the glarin' sun, az Oldham played in dark blue and The Toon played in grey! <(surely a colour clash?)

"SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!"

The 'nail in the coffin' came 10 minutes before time when a Gross misteak by Jak Alnwick in the Toon goal let a shot by 'Gros' gan under hiz body and into the net!

Before the match we'd 'trekked'  through wot looked like a replica of the jungle near 'Manus' (where 'Ing-er-land' played in the World Cup! ) to eventually find a boozer called 'The Rifle Range', which waz bedecked in Oldham colours from the waalpaper to the curtains!---plus a tribute to Joe Royal!

The locals were canny enough and after a few 'liquid refresments' to quensh wor thorsts in the humid conditions,  it waz soon time to fight wor way back through the jungle in the tropical heat to Boundary Park on the othaa side!

In total EIGHTEEN players were used durin' the match (hence TOON XV111 !), most of them resorve and junior players!

Toon team: (ddeep breath!) Alnwick, Anita (Satka 55), Dummett (Bigiramana 70), Steve Taylor (Streete 63), Yanga, Colback, Aarons (Haidera 63), Armstrong (Perez 55), De Jong (Vuckic 64), Gouffran (Sammy Ameobi 46), Abeid

Attendance: 2,919 (estimated 1,000 Toon fans)

"AA TOLD 'IM" OLDHAM v THE TOON *** TOOONEET!

Updated '12:47pm bells' Tuesday 15th July 2014

Wor forst pre season game of the season teks place toneet and we will be settin' off from Tynside in mid afternoon for this '7:30 bells' fixture across the Pennines!

We expect that three of wor news signins will be playin, namely Colback, Perez and Seim De Jong but think that the rest of the team will be made up mainly of resorve players!

A full Geordie Times' match report will appear HERE on Wednesday!---Meeeenwhile!---we have 'dug up' an archive report from 'The mad-sad groundhopper's' forst ever visit here 35 years ago in 1979 (see below!)

"Fresh fish!" *** "Caught in the ocean this morning!"

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Meeeenwhile! the forst roond of live telly games have announced and we have got off lightly az far az Monday neet games gan!

Sun Aug 17th '4 bells' The Blue Moonies @ St James' on SKY

Sat 23rd Aug '12:45 bells' The Hazbeenz and Villians @ Villa Park on BT

MON 29th Sep '8 bells' The P*ss Potters @ The Brit Stadium on SKY

Sat 1st Nov '12:45 bells' The Liverbirds @ St James' on BT

Sun 9th Nov '1:30 bells' The Baggie Troosers @ The Hawthorns on SKY