THE GEORDIE TIMES IZ BACK ONLINE!

Posted '10:13pm bells' Saturday 20th December 2014

Forst of aall!--- grovellin' apologies for not updatin' this site since last Tuesday, but we have had horrendous problems gettin' onto the internet!
'Virgin' have sent us a new router az the old one waz knackered and we will try and fill the backlog of games (Sporz away last Wednesday and Bolton U18s away today), A.S.A.P!

Pleeeze bear with us!---it iz of course 'derby weekend' and we will  be bringin' yoo wor loyal reeeders a compreeehesive match report on that sometime on Munday!  

SPORZ v THE TOON *** LEEGUE CUP QWAATAA FINAL

Posted 'high noon bells' Tuesday 16th December 2014

Tomorrow neet we heed back to London for wor THORD game there since Saturday (see article below!) and 2nd meetin' with Sporz doon here in less than 2 months!
We travel doon at dinnatime and shud be in N17 sometime later on for the usual 'liquid lubrications' IF we can find a boozer that iz open, hazzent been convorted to a coffee shop or bornt to the groond! <(It's a lovely place iz Tottenham!)

Not sure wot team we will put oot but the fact that 4,200 Toon fans are gannin doon for this one, meenz we can anly hope that it's wor strongest team? <(we shall see???)

More to follow on aall this tomorrow mornin'!

Meenwhile wor resorve side have a friendly against Bedlington Terriers tooneet at 'The Doctor Pitt' and kick off iz at '7:30 bells' for any mad-sad groundhoppers who have nevaa been there! <(it's a dump!)

PS just foond oot that wor FA Cup game against 'The Basil Brush Brigade of Leicester will take place @ '3 bells' on Saturday January 3rd  (Thanx to Rob and Biffa for lettin' me know!)

'3:00 PM BELLS', MILLWAALL U18s 1 THE TOON U18s 3 *** FA YOUTH CUP 3rd ROOND < "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!" > '5:30 PM BELLS', THE ARSE 4 THE TOON 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2014-2015

(Ground number 314)
Date of First Visit: 13th December 2014 ('3:00pm bells')
The New Den, New Cross, London

Millwall U18s  1
Newcastle United U18s  3 (Roberts(pen), Longstaff, Drennen (pen)

FA Youth Cup 3rd round
Attendance: 507 includin' approx. 20 'NUFC mad sad groundhoppers!'  <(Some didn't make it to the Arsenal game!)


"MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!"

CALLUM ROBERTS PENALTY *** 1-0 UP!
(THE TOON ARE IN GREY)

The hardest day in mee 'NUFC supportin' life' started off @ 'The Central' where the '9:30 bells' train to King's Cross had been delayed by 15 minutes and would now not get to London til '1pm bells'! <(Great start!)
Az the Youth Cup game at Millwaall kicked off @ '3 bells' it didn't give me much time to grab a few 'liquid lubrications' and heed for 'New Cross'

Millwaall, yoo see, refused NUFC's request to bring the kick off time forward so the youngins could gan to Arsenal and watch the forst team in action.---"No one likes us--we don't care!", they sing and now we naa why! 

A'd arranged to meet 'Dave from York and hiz sidekick 'Alex of St George' in The Compton Arms boozer near Arsenal's groond, where a quick pint of 'Guzzler' reel ale waz consumed before departin' for wor epic two game attempt!

Off we set at '1:45 bells' from the nearest tube station where a 22 minute ride to sooth London waz undertaken and then after a 20 waalk from South Bermondsey Station through darkened alleyways and railway sidings, we eventually foond worsels in the Executive Suite of Millwaall's main stand! <(we paid 'a tenner' to get in so we could get a drink in the bar!)

2 TOON FANS 'RISK THEIR LIVES' WAALKIN' THROUGH
A DARKENED ALLEY ON THE WAY TO THE DEN!

A quick 'gargel' 'there' and it waz time to find wor seats where the usual NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' were congregated---a grand total of FIVE in aall! < (EIGHT plus us!)
Glennn from Ashington wasn't there but we heard that he waz in the lower 'cheap seats' (£5) alang with hiz mate Byzee <(Paupers!)
(We heard that there were aalso 10 othaa Toon fans who had made the 'pilgrimage' az well, who were in 'the lower tier'!)

VIEW FROM EXECUTIVE AREA! <"WE'RE POSH YI NAA!"

The Toon started off the better of the 2 sides and we took the lead in the 18th minute @ 'The Cold Blow Lane End' when Callum Roberts waz fouled in the box and he got up to take the resultin' penalty, which he scored from! (To light applause from the Toon faithful assembled!) (see top pic)

Wor lead waz soon doubled 10 minutes later when Sean Longstaff fired home past the Millwaall keeper---and that's the way it stayed til the break!----A quick half time 'gargel' waz then consumed in the executive bar before retornin' for the 2nd period!

Callum Roberts nearly made it 3 just after the restart when hiz shot rebounded off the post---but then the game waz made safe when a handbaall by a Millwaall defender in the box gave us a 2nd penalty---which Ben Drennen successfully took!

BEN DRENNEN PENALTY *** 3-0 UP!

Millwaall pulled a goal back through a 3rd penalty of the game to make the score 3-1 a few minutes later! 

Extra time however looked a lang shot now and so it waz decided to leave @ '4:30 bells' to try and catch the train back to Islington and make the kick off for the forst teamers game against 'The Arse'!

We just missed the '4:45 train, but the next one waz 7 minutes later and we arrived @ the away tornstiles az the game waz aboot to kick off!----After a quick visit to 'the tool shed' <(coz aa waz 'burstin'!) aa entered the terrace where the clock told me that 2 minutes had been played <(thankfully we hadn't missed much of the game!)
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THE ARSE 4  THE TOON 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE
('5:30pm bells') Emirates Stadium, Islington, London <(been here quite a few times before!)

"AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLEEETLEEE DIFFERENT!"

 ^JUST OWER AN HOUR LATER!^
 

Wor manager had just received the manager of the month award and this waz to prove 'the kiss of death' for us az we simply 'wornt at the races'!

A 4-1 defeat wasn't fair however! az the ref seemed completely biased towards the home side!
It didn't help that 'The Arse' were much the better of the 2 sides az well and they looked certain to score at some point soon!

They did in the 15th minute when Giroud heeded past 3rd choice Jak Alwick in The Toon goal (Krul and Elliot are still injured!)
Several Toon penalty claim were then torned doon by the ref who simply waved wor claims away!?

With the score at 1-0 at the break 'The Arse' went on aall oot attack and doubled their lead through Cazorla in the 54th minute when he lifted the baall ower Alnwick's heed!
Not lang after it waz 3-0 when Giroud again foond the back of wor net!---(game definatly ower!)


GOUFFRAN CORNER 2nd HALF
(View from 'The Cheap Seats'! * row 13, seat 641) <"BACK TO NORMAL!"

We pulled one back not lang after when Perez scored from a Colback free kick by heedin' past Szczesny <(hope av spelt that reet!?) in front of The 2,000 Toon fans!

'The Arse' restored their 3 goal lead when a penalty waz awarded and Cazorla lobbed the baall into the net!

We later foond oot that 'Glennn from Ashington' and 'Byzee' had stayed to the bitter end at Millwaall and had booked a taxi to take them to 'The Emirates' to make the kick off.
The taxi torned up 12 minutes late however and they missed the kick off by 6 minutes! <(they anly gave the taxi driver £20 instead of the £25 fare they had agreed beforehand and 'did a runner'!---The taxi driver waz NOT a 'happy bunny'!)
Everybody else who attended the 2 games had left Millwaall before the end and therefore NOT ONE Toon fan had seen both games in their entirety!

Toon team: Alnwick, Janmaat, Williamson, Coloccini, Dummett, Tiote, Colback, Gouffran, Perez (Armstrong 82), Sammy Ameobi (Cabella 86), Cisse (Riviere 56)

Attendance: 59,949 (2,000 Toon fans)

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"WE WAZ THERE!"

THE ARSE v THE TOON * plus! * MILLWAALL U18s v THE TOON U18s *** TOMORROW AFTERNOOON!

Posted '4:59pm bells' Friday 12th December 2014

THE NEW DEN WITH THE 'OLD' DEN AT THE TOP LEFT OF PICTURE

Tomorrow afternoon 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' are to 'attempt' to visit both The New Den AND The Emirates Stadium to watch The Toon's youngins and forst team respectively!

We are on the '9:30 bells' train to King's Cross in the mornin', which thankfully ISNT 'dry' this time, unlike wor last visit to 'the smoke' when we played at West Ham the othaa week!

Then it's a mad dash to 'South Bermondsey' station via 'London Bridge' to make the '3 bells' kick off @ The New Den in the FA Youth Cup! <(a groond we have never played at before!)
The plan iz to watch this game and hope that extra time doesn't come into play, az we will have to miss it to gan 'north of the Thames' to Arsenal, for wor forst team game which kicks off @ '5:30 bells' <(a groond we have been te a canny few times!)



We will probably miss the start of that game, but are willin' to take the chance to chalk anothaa groond off the never endin' list!

Az to how we will get between the two groonds iz anybodys guess!? (see 'London Calling' article below!)

Watch this space on Sunday to find oot how we 'got on'!?


Millwaall history lesson: We have never played them at any level @ The New Den, although of course the forst team have played @ The (old) Den before

'The Arse' history lesson:
NUFC have played Arsenal on THREE different home groonds in total!

Wor forst ever meetin' with them aalso happens to be both sides forst ever game in The Futbaall Leegue!
Woolwich Arsenal (az they were then known) played us 121 years ago on 2nd September 1893 @ The Manor Ground, Plumstead in an old 2nd Division game.
The game ended 2-2 in front of a 6,000 crowd. Wor goals were scored by Jock Sorley and Tom Crate.

Wor forst visit to Highbury occurred on 30th August 1919 when we ran oot 1-0 winners in front of a 40,000 crowd, thanx to a goal by James Henderson. This waz in the old 1st Division.

More recently we visited The Emirates Stadium for wor debut visit on 18th November 2006 when we drew 1-1 in the Premyaa Leegue with Keiron Dyer gettin' wor goal. The attendance waz 60,058

Archive 'Geordie Times' match reports can be foond in the right hand column (grounds 004 (Highbury) and 045 (The Den) 

"150,000 THANKYOOZ!"

Posted 'high noon bells' Friday 12th December 2014

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

Anothaa 'Geordie Times' milestone haz been passed this mornin', for we have just receeeved wor 150,000th pageview on this site!--and by coincidence we have received 'hits' from 150 countries and territories aroond planet Orth az well! <(plus Mars of course!)

Country by country 'milestones' have aalso been passed recently az well! (highlighted below)

The top ten table iz az follows:

UK: 70,571 (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales)
USA: 25,594
Ukraine: 11,349
Jawmany: 10,160
"Mee old" China: 3,893
Rushaa: 2,698
"Lost in" France: 1,260
The Israelites: 1,184
The Guinness Republic: 1,125
Torkey: 1,051

Once again we thank each and everyone of yoo from Marrakesh to Mars for loggin' into this NUFC fan blog!   

A LOYAL GEORDIE TIMES REEDER CLIMBS UP THE
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN NEW YORK
TO CELEBRATE WOR 150,000th HIT!

LONDON CALLING!

Posted '12:52pm bells' Thorsday 11th December 2014

This comin' Saturday 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' face the dauntin' task of tryin' to de TWO groonds between '3 bells' and '5:30 bells' in 'sarf' and 'norf Landan' respectivleee!

Wor youth team play Millwaall @ 'The New Den @ '3 bells' in the FA Youth Cup and then the forst team play 'The Arse' @ The Emirates Stadium just two and a half hours later in a Premyaa Leegue fixture!
The New Den iz of course a 'new groond' for us and iz a 'must gan game'!--Sadly, Millwaall  FC were very unhelpful and refused to change the kick off time to accommodate NUFC and 'The mad-sad groundhoppers'

We have THREE contingency plans to 'de' the two games!


Plan 'A'
'Dave from York' and hiz sidekick 'Alex of St George' (amongst others!) are gannin on a 'reconnaissance mission' and are heedin' for 'The Emirates' in the orly mornin' and backtrackin' by tube and train and shank's pony to the nearest rail station to Millwaall's groond, to see just how lang it takes!
And then devise a plan to get us from there to 'The Arse' withoot missin' tooo much of that game!--It won't be easy---but we wont be beaten!

'Biffa the Beer' <(no! this isn't a misprint--he likes a pint or 10!) iz contenplatin' gettin' between the two games by motorcycle courier az a pillion passenger, az of course a bike can weave in and oot of traffic on the congested London streets!

This haz given ME a 'brainwave' <(or shud that be 'brain-warp'?) and two great ideas to get the dozen or so 'mad-sad groundhoppers' across London, who aalso want to 'de' the two games!

Plan 'B'!

PLAN 'B'***'THE NUFC MAD -SAD GROUNDHOPPERS' PASS BIG BEN
AND THE HOOSES OF PARLIAMENT ON THEIR WAY FROM
MILLWAALL TO 'THE ARSE'!
(BUT CAN YOO SPOT SOMMIK AMISS?)
(AALL WILL BE REVEALED IN GOOD TIME!)

Plan 'C'


PLAN 'C' *** FORM A 'HELLS ANGELS GANG'
AND TERRORISE  MOTORISTS TO LET US PASS!

 

IT'S THE BASIL BRUSH SHOW!

Posted '11:35am bells' Tuesday 9th December 2014

The FA Cup thord roond draw haz (thankfully!) spared us a visit to Croft Park (Blyth) or Gatesheed Stadium and haz paired us away to 'The Basil Brush Brigade' of Leicester!

We cannit see this game bein' picked for live telly and think that it will be played on Saturday 3rd January @ '3 bells'!

There's ne doubt that Blyth, who have drawn Bormingham at home will be a live game, az will (more than likely) Gatesheed, who have been drawn away to 'The Baggie Troosers' of West Brom!

GEORDIE TIMES EXCLUUUSIVE! *** "JOSE GETS MAD COW DISEASE!"

Posted '10:18am bells' Monday 8th December 2014

NEWCASTLE TOWN MOOR NEXT TO ST JAMES' PARK
THE VENUE FOR THE VISIT OF CHELSKI NEXT SEASON!

Jose Moanrinho's latest comments aboot wor tactics against them on Saturday get more bizzare. Forst of aall he blames the baall boys for not givin' the baall back quickly enough when it gans oot of play and now he says that we played like there waz a COW on the pitch!????

Next time we shud play them on the Toon Moor where cows are allowed to graze freely!

Mee finx he haz sommik wrang 'upstairs' 
'Mad Cow Disease---Perhaps'!?

NORTH EAST'S 'BIG THREE' IN FA CUP DRAW TOONEET!

Posted '9:55am bells' Monday 8th December 2014

A 'PACKED'? 'LEAZES END CLUB' WATCH
'THE HEED' v WARRINGTON FA CUP TIE!

Tooneet @ '7 bells' on the Beeb and Radio 5 there iz the FA Cup 3rd roond draw and this of course involves the north east's 'Big Three', by which I meeen of course, 'The Toon', 'The Heedbangers of Gatesheed' and 'The Spartans of Blyth'! <(who else did yi think aa meant???)

'The Heedbangers' beat 'The Warriors of Warrington' 2-0 yesterday dinnaatime, to progress to the 3rd roond and 'The mad-sad Tellyhoppers' watched it in the warmth of 'The Leazes End Club' (aka 'The Companions') within the shadows of St James'!
In total there were SEVEN of us watchin' az 'The Heed' completeleee dominated the game, hittin' the woodwork on ne less than 3 occasions in front of a 2,800 plus crowd (includin' 1,200 'Warriors'!)

There are quite a few banana skins to avoid in the draw includin' the above two!---and personally---I will find oot on Radio 5 az aa drive mee truck to Halesowen, which iz to the sooth west of Bormingham.
Lets hope (and pray!) it isn't one of the othaa 'Big Three' mentioned or else there might just be a nasty crash on the 'M1', come '7:15 bells'!

We await with baited breath for the draw tooneet!

THE TOON 2 THE CHELSKI OAPS 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2014-2015

Posted '10:50am bells' Sunday 7th December 2014

"IT'S A LOAD OF BAALLS!, MOANRINHO!"

THE TOON KICK OFF!
(The North Sea iz on the horizon 8 miles away!)

We said yesterday that we would like to wipe the 'non smile' of Jose Mourinho's face and that's exactly wot we did az we ended 'The Invincibles' unbeaten run! <(he actually 'smiled' at the end of the match!)

Chelski started off the better of the two sides and had several chances to tek the lead az they attacked 'The Gallowgate End' orly on!
Jack Colback had the best chance for us a little later on when hiz shot waz blocked on the line and the teams went in' aall square' at half time!

THE TOON ATTACK THE LEAZES END (1st half)

"PAPISS TAKIN' THE P*SS!"

Both sides had chances to score orly in the 2nd period and the deadlock waz finally broken by 'super-sub' Papiss Cisse in the 57th minute when he latched onto a Sammy Ameobi pass to score from just 3 yards oot to send the crowd into raptures!

(A'd said to 'Norman the Cowboy Plumber' who sits next to me, that we had ne chance of beatin' them and just THREE seconds later Cisse scored!)

Cisse's 2nd came in the 78th minute when a cross from Sissoko foond hiz feet and he gleefully exepted hiz chance to bury the baall in the back of the net @ 'The Gallowgate End'
12mins to gan!---surely we'd won the game!?

THE TOON ATTACK THE GALLOWGATE END
(View from The Milburn Stand balcony)

But this iz NUFC! so we tried to 'push the self destruct button' when Steve Taylor needlessly got a 2nd yellow card and iz sent off in the 82nd minute. From the resultin' Chelski free kick, they score through a Drogba heeder to set the game on a knife edge!

Drogba then tried to bully Cisse into restartin' the game quickly, with wor centre forward hero havin' 'none of it' az he waved hiz arms in anger at him!
I then dropped a 'major bollock' by shoutin' praise for a great save from Rob Elliot in The Toon goal!
I then got a glarin' look from the 'old doll' who sits in front of me and she told me in no uncertain terms that it waz JAK ALWICK in wor goal and that he had replaced Elliot at half time (who had picked up an injury from a goal kick!) "HELP!"

Somehow we managed to get to the 90 minute mark when the 4th official put up SIX minutes of  'Fergie time' on hiz board, which brought howls of derision from The Toon faithful!

SEVEN? minutes of torture followed <(the ref foond anothaa minute from somewhere?) before he finally blew for full time az the roof lifted off St James'!
Chelski's unbeaten run from the start of the season waz ower---we have now beaten them THREE years in a row at home!
Who's 'invincible'?

P45DEW <(we still resorve wor judgement on him til Xmas!) said we had just beaten the best team in Europe and Moanrinho blamed the baall boys for hiz sides defeat?, az he claimed they hadn' given the baall back quick enough went it went oot of play!
UTTER TOSH! if yoo ask me and sour grapes for yoo, Jose!

We move up to 7th place in the table, just 2 points behind Man U in 4th!

"Arsenal!-Arsenal! here we come!" <(wor next game, next Saturday in London!)

Toon team: Elliot (Alwick 46) <(didn't notice he'd came on!)
Janmaat, Steve Taylor, Coloccini, Dummett, Tiote, Colback, Sissoko, Cabella (Cisse 53), Sammy Ameobi (Williamson 83), Perez

Attendance: 52,019 (3,200 'Invincible' followers!)

And finally!  Can we just wish Gatesheed the best of luck in their FA Cup tie against Warrington which kicks off @ 'high noon bells' today and iz live on BT Sports!  <(If they get through lets hope (and pray!) we divvint draw them or Blyth in the 3rd roond draw on Monday!)>>>>>>>>>>>>