'UDDERSEEELD v THE TOON *** TOMORROW AFTERNOOON!

Posted '1:58pm bells' Friday 14th December 2018

WE heed for deepest Yorkshire tomorrow afternoon for wor game against 'uddersfeeeld and 3 points iz wot we want and desperately need!
This iz wor shortest away trip this season in The Premyaa Leegue (91 miles by train via York) and we leave on the '8:58 bells' train in the mornin' from 'The Central' (station) and shud arrive in good time for plenty 'liquid lubrications'!
Snow iz forecast ower the Pennines, so wrap up in warm clothin' if yoo are gannin!                        ↓↓↓↓↓

Wor opponents lie below us in the table and have won just ONE home game this season, scorin' just THREE goals in the process!

Schar iz available after suspension but Yedlin iz banned after hiz 'sendin off' v Wolves last week!
Shelvey and Fernandez are not expected to 'make it', but Dummett could retorn to the fold!
Aall away tickets have been sold.
(Tickets for wor away games against The Liverbirds and Wotfaad have aalso sold oot!)

'Yours truly' will actually be passin 'uddersfeeeld on the M62 on the way back from mee Manchester 'truck run' in the orly hours of Saturday mornin' (for the 10th time this week!) ---and then after a brief 'shut eye' "ZZZZzzzz!!!!"--I'm up again to catch the '8:58'!
"It's aall go!"


NUFC v HTFC history lesson:
The forst ever meetin' took place @ SJP nearly 99 years ago, on 31st January 1920---'uddersfeeeld won 1-0 in an FA Cup 2nd roond tie in front of a 46,462 crowd.

The last meetin' took place, again at SJP, on 31st March this year, where NUFC won 1-0 with Perez scorin' the anly goal of the game in front of 51,261

Full record: Played 64, Won 27, Drawn 15, Lost 22

A full Geordie Times match and boozer report will appear here sometime on Sunday---az per usual!

"SMBs TAKIN' THE P*SS!"

Posted '2:00pm bells' Thorsday 13th December 2018

News reaches us that wor U21s resorve game against the mackems 1st team at The SOS in The Checkatrade Trophy will be played on Tuesday 8th January with a '7 bells' kick off!

The SMBs are chargin' fans FIVE TIMES az much to get in compared to their previous Checkatrade Trophy home game!

They charged £3 the last time and they are chargin' NUFC fans a ridiculous FIFTEEN QUID to get in!

This iz ne doubt in conjunction with the Northumbria Dibble Brigade to try and deter fans travellin' from Tyneside!

Their excuse iz that they will have to open more than ONE STAND to accommodate us! (Extra Dibble and steward costs etc!)
"WOW!" --- "TWO STANDS OPEN OOT OF FOUR!"

sund'lind owner 'Donald the Duck Egg' said this on Twitter:
"Opening one stand for a low risk game has a completely different cost base to a game against our biggest rivals who want their full allocation regardless of who is in their team."


Their own fans will AALSO be charged £15, az they must charge the same for both sets of fans!

In the FA Cup replay v Waalsaall they charged £10 and £5 and got a 'massive' 8,212 tornoot, which included 201 Waalsaall fans! (Anly the East Stand woz open to home fans with Waalsaall fans in one corner behind the goal at pitch level, where Toon fans used to be accommodated)

This pricin' policy iz a disgrace, but WONT stop up to *4,000 Toon fans from travellin', (az they'd hoped), and it will badly backfire on them for sure! (If anything---it will make us even more determined to gan!)

*4,000 iz wor normal allocation! 

SPORZ NEW STADIUM *** WILL NUFC BE 'FIRST FOOTING'?

Posted '2:04pm bells' Tuesday 11th December 2018
Updated Thorsday '3:45pm bells'

SPORZ NEW STADIUM *** THIS PHOTO WOZ TAKEN 2 DAYS AGO

News reaches 'The Geordie Times' from wor 'little sister' 'The Times of London', that there iz a possibility that wor game away to Sporz in orly February might be the forst competitive game at their new stadium! (see below)
Sporz had pencilled in their game v Moan U in January and hoped that would be the forst game at their new abode, but that now looks in doubt! 
'GEORDIE TIMES NEWSFLASH!' (Thorsday)
Sporz game v Moan U WILL be played at Wembley!

We will of course keep yoo---wor loyal reeeders, informed of any forthaa developments!
Az per usual---"Watch this space!"

AND FROM 'THE SUN'

AND THIS IZ WHERE 'SKY' FINKS THE GAME WILL BE PLAYED!

THORSDAY'S GUARDIAN

LIVE TELLY GAMES FOR FEBRUARY IMMINENT!----"ER! NEXT WEEK!" (PERHAPS!?)

Posted '3:00pm bells' Wedinzday 12th December 2018
Updated '2:55pm bells' Thorsday

The telly fixtures for February WERE due to be announced YESTERDAY.
However!---we have been informed that this will be delayed for 1 week til after The Champions Leegue draw next Munday!

The NUFC games that could be changed are az follows:

Currently Saturday 2nd: Sporz, away at eethaa Wembley or their new stadium?

THIS IZ WHERE 'SKY' FINKS THE GAME WILL BE PLAYED!

Currently Saturday 9th: Wolves, away

Currently Saturday 23rd: 'uddersfeeeld, home

Currently Wedinzday 27th: Bornley, home

We will let yiz naa az sooon az we find oot!

Az per usual---"Watch this space!"

THE TOON 1 WOLVERHAMPTON WANABEEZ 2 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2018-2019

Posted just after 'high noon bells' Munday 10th December 2018

1st HALF ACTION (Photo by Jamie aged 9)

"SICKENER SUNDAY!"😨

NUFC's sickenin' home record went to 7 defeats so far this season against a very average Wolves side who we should and could have beaten!

The ref Mike Dean didn't help matters eetha, but he wasn't to blame for the forst goal in the 17th minute when an unmarked Jota had the simple task of beatin' Dubravka in The Toon goal to put the visitors 'one up' @ The Leazes End!

PRE MATCH 'WARM UP'  AT THE GALLOWGATE END

It didn't take lang for us to get back on level torms when a Rondon free kick from the edge of the box hit the underside of the bar and rebounded to him---he then sent a cross in for Perez to get on the end of it and prod into the corner of the Wolves net!

Mike Dean the ref didn't help us one bit az several crunchin challenges from wor visitors went unpunished!

2nd HALF ACTION AT THE LEAZES END

The 2nd half started az we attacked The Leazes goal, but within 5 minutes of the restart the 'game changer'!
Yedlin lost the baall and with the Wolves player clear on goal Yedlin pulled him back and there woz anly one outcome az Dean produced the red card and we were doon to 10 men for the rest of the match!

Perez woz elbowed in the face in the penalty box (a clear penalty), but az he lay prostate in the box the blind ref waved 'play on' and Wolves nearly scored, but Dubravka saved the day by putting the baall oot for a corner!---Anly then did Dean saunter back to the opposite penalty box to see if Perez woz ok!

He wasn't and had to gan to the halfway line for treatment, meenin we anly had nine players on the field of play az Wolves went for the winner!

Perez wasn't a 'happy bunny' but came back on and The Toon had their best period of the game az WE went for the winner!

And then the 'Sunday Sickener'!----havin held oot for virtually the whole of the 2nd half with 10 men, Wolves scored in the 4th minute of injury time when Perez lost possession of the baall and a Jota shot woz saved by Dubravka, but he anly palmed it to Doherty and he had the easy task of heedin the baall into the unguarded goal to break wor hearts! (yet again in a home game!)

We remain in 15th place after the weekends results and then
we heed for 'uddersfield next week in a '6 pointer', az they are anly 3 points behind us in thord bottom place!
It's definatly 'squeeky bum time' folks!

Toon team: Dubravka, Yedlin, Lascelles, Fernandez (Manquillo 46), Clark, Atsu (Kenedy 89), Diame, Ki, Ritchie, Perez, Rondon (Joselu 86)

Attendance: 50,233 (3,000 very happy 'Wanabeez' in level 7 of The Leazes End)

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THE TOON v WOLVERHAMPTON WANABEEZ *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2018-2019

Posted '11:00am bells' Sunday 9th December 2018

This afternoon @ '4 bells' we face newly promoted Wolves @ St James' Park---and a win would propel us to 6 points above the drop zone after yesterdays results!  (4 of the 6 teams below us, lost--- Bornley and Cardiff won) 

We're not sure if Rafa will rotate the squad again, but with some tough games comin' up in the next month we reeely must get sommik oot of this game!
Schar iz suspended after reachin' 5 yellow cards and Hayden iz oot injured. Matt Richie retorns from suspension and both Dummett and Kenedy have returned to trainin'!

The Magpie Group have called off the planned boycott of the game because of takeower talks---but we 'fink' that not many would have took part anyway! (Certainly NOT me!)

NUFC v Wolves history lesson:
The 1st ever game between the 2 clubs took place ower 120 years ago in February 1898 @ St. James' Park, where Wolves won 4-2 in an old Division 1 game  (Jock Pendle scored both NUFC's goals)---20,000 attended

The last time we met woz 20 months ago @ Molineux, where NUFC won 1-0 in a Championship game. Mitrovic scored the anly goal in front of 24,876

Full record: Played 94, Won 39, Drawn 23, lost 32  

A full Geordie Times match report will appear here tomorrow---providin' mee laptop's still workin'! (Aa couldn't get it to work yesterday---but for some reason, unbeknown to man or beast, it haz decided to work today?)

HT 1-1  Perez for Toon
FT lost 2-1😨

IT HAD TO HAPPEN!😨

Posted '2:45pm bells' Saturday 8th December 2018

The Checkatrade Trophy draw haz been made and wor resorve side have been drawn away to sund'linds forst team!

Its a draw the mackems certainly didnt want az its a 'ne win situation for them!

Can you imagine if WE win!?
The ultimate humiliation!

The match iz due to be played in the 2nd week of January!

PS: Mee laptop iz workin itsel again, so av got to de this blog on mee mobile phone until I can get the problem fixed!

PPS: Managed to get laptop workin' again---a day later!

THE TOFFEE NOSES 1 THE TOON 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2018-2019

Posted '10:30am bells' onwards on the train from Liverpool to The Toon! Thorsday 6th December 2018

"A HARD EARNED POINT!"

Havin dragged meesel oot of bed after the previous nightshift to Manchester (see Macclesfeeeld report below this one) it woz off again to 'The Central' (station) to catch the '1:30 bells' train to Liverpool, arrivin' in good time for a few 'gargels' before kick off in 'The Excelsior' and 'The Ship' next door!
It woz then a taxi ride to Goodison Park, some 3 miles from the centre of Liverpool!

A hard earned point woz the outcome of this game played in heavy rain for most parts.
We took the lead in the 19th minute at The Park End when a Murphy cross foond Rondon who wellied the baall past Pickford (the man we love to hate!)

NUFC held on to the lead for 20 mins and then Evertin equalised through Ricalison who fired past Dubravka at The Gladys Street End!

It looked at this point that we would get beat but we are made of sterner stuff these days and held on in the 2nd half to claim the valuable point and propel us up one rung on the ladder to 14th place!
This meenz that in the last 6 games we have won 3,  drawn 2, and lost 1!
Not bad for a team in crisis!

After the match we heeded back to the centre of Livepool for a few gargels in 'Ma Egertons' before retiring for the neet in wor hotel near Lime Street station "ZZZZZzzzzz!"

Next morning we heeded for 'The Fall Well' for some 'breakies' (washed doon with a pint of 'Smiths') before catchin the '10:30 bells' train back yem!
And of course---anothaa 'night truck run' back to Manchester!--------"Its aall go-go-go!"

TOON FANS AND PLAYERS CELEBRATE AT THE END!

Toon team: Dubravka, Yedlin, Schar, Lascelles, Fernandez, Manquillo, Atsu, Ki, Diame, Murphy (Perez 64), Rondon (Joselu 73)

Attendance: 39,350 (1,700 Toon fans)

PUB CRAWL PIX FROM LIVERPOOL 

THE TOON U21s 1 MACCLESFEEELD 1 (TOON WIN 5-3 ON PENS)

Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 5th December 2018

"I'M JUST A HALF TIME SUPPORTER!"

The Toon's youngins progressed to the last 16 of The Checkatrade Trophy when we beat bottom of the Futbaall Leegue side Macclesfeeeld 5-3 on pens after the score woz level 1-1 after 90 minutes

Yours truely saw the forst half from the middle section of The East Stand and then listened to the 2nd half on mee truck radio az aa had to gan to work at 8 30 bells and drive to Manchester! (honest!)

NUFC took the lead through Elias Sorensen who toe poked home at The Gallowgate End followin a cross from Liam Gibson to send the 1,000 plus Toon fans into raptures! (Whey polite applause, anyway!)

'The Big Maccs' had a noisy followin' and numbered aboot 50 who were stuck in the Leazes/ East Stand corner of the groond! (Below in the far corner)

Az soon az the half time whistle sounded aa rushed to the exit gate az aa had to gan to work for '8:30 bells'---and then onward across the Peninnes!

The game woz live on Radio Newcasil and former Toon 'dinosaur' John Anderson woz the co commentator!
Aroond aboot the Darlington area of the A1M, Macclesfeeeld equalised in the 85th minute through Scott and penalties beckoned after 90 minutes!

Luckily for me the radio crackled on az I approached Scotch Corner and 'Ando' told us that Harker had blocked Maccs 2nd penalty---we scored aall 4 of wors through Bailey, Roberts, Gibson and Watts and it woz left to Sangre to score the 5th penalty to send us into the next roond!

A very strange evenin for me ---watchin the forst half and listenin to the 2nd half!
But aa HAD to 'show mee face' az a'd nevaa seen The Toon play Macclesfeeeld before!
The last team to play at St James' who aa hadn't seen there woz Linfield way back in 1966 in a friendly, which we won 7-2!
That's why aa HAD TO GAN!---even if it woz just for half a game!

Aa got back from 'Manc-land' at '4 am bells', grabbed 5 hours kip and then got up again to de 'this piece' and heed for Liverpool on the train at '1:30 bells' for wor game at Evertin tooneet---Its 'aall go' ---Isn't it just!

To be continued!---watch this space!

TOONEET *** U21s v MACCLESFIELD *** TOMORROW *** THE TOFFEE NOSES v THE TOON

Posted '3:00pm bells' Tuesday 4th December 2018

'The Geordie Times' faces a hectic 3 days tryin to fit work in aroond 2 fixtures this mid-week!
Forst of aall, wor U21 resorve side face Macclesfield's forst team in The Checkatrade Trophy tooneet and Everton away in the Premyaa Leegue on Wedinzday neet!

The anly problem iz that av anly got ONE days holiday from work left, which a'm takin tomorrow, which meenz a'm gannin to the resorve match tooneet at SJP and then will have to gan to work for 9 pm bells for mee usual truck run to Manchester.

Then on Wedinzday aa will have to drag meesel oot of bed after the previous nightshift and catch a train to Liverpool at '1:30pm bells' for wor game with The Toffee Noses!
Then!--after an owerneet stay in central Liverpool a'v got to catch an orly train yem to gan back to work on Thorsday neet!---back to Manchester!

Normally aa would just miss the resorve game, BUT! av NEVAA seen The Toon play Macclesfield before and so it iz a "Must gan game!"
And of course there iz "Ne way!" that aa can miss a forst team game eethaa!

Will let yiz naa how aa get on in due course!

 Footnote:
"HERE WE GAN AGAIN!"
News that 'The Fat Controller' iz aboot to sell up iz great news--- 
IF ITS TRUE WOT HE SAYS!---IF NOT! we are in for yet anothaa winter of discontent!