Ground
number 324
Date of
First Visit: 28th January 2017
Kassam
Stadium, Oxford
Oxford
United 3
Newcastle
United 0
FA Cup 4th
Roond
Attendance:
11,810 (1,787 Toon fans)
“CUP-ITULATION!”--
"AZ THE OXO 'GRAVY TRAIN' COMES OFF THE RAILS!"
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MITROVIC'S PENALTY MISS! (JUST ABOOT SUMS IT UP!)
(The Toon are in white) |
Lets be brutally
honest here!---this performance from NUFC’s 2nd string? waz az dire
az it gets!
When I saw
that Sels waz in goal (wor 3rd choice keeper) yoo just knew wot woz
comin’ next!
A line up with
9 changes from wor last game that had me ’finkin’ that a draw waz on the cards
and yet anothaa midweek replay---Aa shouldn’t have worried though az these
performances seem to be saved for the FA Cup and yet anothaa exit before
February haz come! (saves on expensive trips to Wembley in May!---eh!)
“WE’VE GOT
MORE FANS THAN YOU, NEW-CAS-IL!, NEW-CAS-IL!
The day
starterd off at 5:45 am bells’ when aa caught the forst bus to the Toon and
then onward by train to---DURHAM!
‘Jimmy the
Riddle’ woz pickin’ us up there (‘us bein’ me and ‘Adam (without) Aunt’ az the
train fare aall the way to Oxfaad waz a mouth waaterin’ £144! It cost me the grand total of £5.10 for a
retorn ticket to Durham and £30 for petrol in Jimmy’s Mag-mobile’ (see photo!)
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'THE MAG-MOBILE'!
"I told Jimmy in no uncertain terms that the only way I would travel to Oxfaad
by car would be in a one with black n white stripes!---
SO!--- he went oot and bought one!" |
A bit
cheaper than the train fare ‘aall the way doon’---so that waz the way we
travelled!
At the
Central there were loads of people wearin’ claret n blue scarves and hats and
not one person wearin’ any Toon gear?
Were they
Gatesheed fans heedin’ for Torquay (where The Heed were playin’ (Gatesheed’s 2nd
strip iz claret n blue) or some rugby club heedin’ somewhere?
Mee
curiosity got the better of me and aa asked one of them ‘who there were and
where were they gannin’?
“SOOTH
SHEELDZ!” came the reply---“We’re playin’ Solent from Sooothampton in the FA
Vase!”
The carriage
I woz in on the train to King’s Cross waz packed with them and not a Toon fan
in sight (£144 probably put them off!)
And then—just
before the train pulled oot one of mee travellin’ companions torned up, namely
'Adam (withoot) Aunt' <(he NEVA brings hiz aunty!)
We got off
at Durham az planned and Jimmy waz waitin’ in hiz ‘Mag-mobile’ to whisk us away
to Oxfaad!
On the way
we picked Adam’s daddy up at Northampton sorvices (he lives there) < (Eh!--Northampton
NOT the sorvices!) who woz caalled Brian and we sped off towards wor final
destination!
Oxfaad’s groond
iz some 4 and a half miles from the city centre and the ‘plan’? woz to park
there and get a bus into Oxfaad for a few ‘gargels’ with the lads who went aall
the way by train!
We parked up
next to the away end at ’high noon bells’and heeded for the bus stop, a 10
minute waalk away on the Blackbird Leys estate! <(where there were riots in
the 1990’s !)
The bus
jorney woz torturous az we made wor way through heavy traffic—passin’ several ‘drinkin’
dens’ on the way!—It woz takin’ ages and I suggested we get off at the next
boozer az time woz getting on (‘12:20 bells’ by this time) 'Jimmy the Riddle' woz
havin non of it!
“We’ll stay
on and meet the lads!” he exclaimed, addin’ that az HE woz the driver and couldn’t
drink anyway, he wasn’t bothered aboot the rest of us getting’ wor pre match
gargels! <(SELFISH B*****D!)
We eventually
arrived in the centre some 30 mins after getting’ on the bus!---but ended up a
lang way from where wor companions were drinkin’!---This woz because the
postcode they gave us to tell us where they were woz WRANG (OX1 1SU instead of
OX1 3SU!) so we decided that az it woz now ‘qwaataa to one bells’ to heed for
the nearest hostelry instead just around the corner from where we were!
The rest of
them eventually foond us (“HORRAY!”) and ‘Colonel Gadaffi’ said that there woz
a ‘hysterical’ pub alang the road caalled ‘The Chequers’ (see photo!) which woz
wor next ‘port o call’
We went
there but it wasn’t that ‘hysterical’—more ‘historical’ (‘The Colonel’ IZ getting’
on a bit!) and soon it woz time to heed back to the groond and face the
torturous 30 minute retorn jorney!
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| HISTORICAL OR HYSTERICAL? |
We made it
with a little time to spare and heeded for the away end where the 1,800 or so Toon
fans were housed!
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| "SING IN THE CAR PARK!" |
We needn’t
have bothered comin’ az Rafa sent oot a resorve team who didn’t seem to be ‘up
for it’!
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| THE TOON ATTACK 'THE OXO ULTRAS END' (1st half) |
Really we
shud have been aheed at the break but fluffed chances cost us and the 2nd
half woz a different story!
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| ACTION IN FRONT OF THE MAIN STAND |
With ‘The
Oxo Ultras’ fans behind the far goal and the home side kickin’ that way, they
were aheed barley 30 seconds after the restart when Hemmings scrambled the
baall into the back of wor net from a corner kick!
And then in
the 66th minute we had a bit of luck az Mitrovic woz bundled ower in
the box and the ref gave us a penalty. Mitrovic took it himself but
predictableee he missed it by placin’ the baall just to the right of their
keeper who managed to parry the baall away to cheers from The Oxo mob’
It woz soon
2-0 after this az wor heeds dropped! Anothaa corner which woz heeded in by
Nelson to ‘finish us off’!
The 3rd
and final humiliation came just before the end when Martinez heeded in from yet
anothaa corner to send many of The Toon fans to the exits!
Yet anothaa ‘’Disaster
Day’ for the faithful to endure and from a personal point of view this waz the
SEVENTEENTH TIME av seen NUFC lose to opposition from a lower division in the
FA Cup!!!!
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| "WE WOZ THERE!"---"UNFORTUNATLEEEE!" |
Toon (resorve!)
team: Sels, Gamez, Haidera (Richie 77), Hanley, Good, Hayden, Barlaser, Lazaar,
Perez, Mitrovic, El Mhanni (Gouffran 68)
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| "THE PREMYAA LEEGUE 'GRAVY TRAIN' IZ ALL THAT MATTERS'!" |
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!
'Adam (withoot) Aunt' in 'The Mag-mobile' to Oxfaad! ^^^^^^
'Adam (withoot) Aunt' in club in Blackborn! ^^^^^^
