339 kingfield stadium, woking (v reading u23s)

Ground number 339
Date of First Visit: 15th March 2019
Kingfield Stadium, Woking

Reading U23s 1
Newcastle United U23s 2 (Sterry, Allen)

FA Premier Cup round of 16
Attendance: 75 (estimated) includin at least 12 NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers!)

WHERE'S 'THE PUB'!???

Havin had just 3 hours 'shut eye' after mee usual night 'truck run ' to Manchester, it woz up at '6am bells' to catch the '7:29 bells' train to King's Cross in London and then onward to Woking in Surrey via Waterloo station for this cup tie at Reading's 'home' for U23 cup games!

Colonel Gadaffi (the one from Bracknell in Berkshire, NOT Libya!) was aalready there and and told us to gan to a pub near the station caalled 'The Pub'! (Unusual name for a pub?)
However! we couldnt find it and in desperation (coz we were 'gaggin' for a pint!) I phoned him to give us directions!
"Its down the road from the station past the statue!" he said.
But we still couldnt find it so he said that he would come ootside and wave to us!
He duly did, and we spotted him, but the pub he woz ootside wasnt caalled 'The Pub'---it woz caalled 'The POUND'! (ie: he's in hiz 70's and me 'finks' that senile dementia haz set in!😨)
NEE WONDER WE COULDN'T FIND IT!

THE PUB NAMED 'THE PUB'?

Anyway! After a quick 'gargel' it woz time to heed for the groond where we gained free admission with a 20% discount (so the guy at the entrance telt us!)

The game kicked off at '1:00pm bells'and a sparse crowd woz in attendance.
The Toon's 2nd string torned oot in wor blue and maroon hooped strip and straight away we went on the attack az we attacked the right hand goal from us!

NUFC took the lead in the 22nd  minute when Jamie Sterry hit a fine strike from 15 yards oot to ripples of applause from the 'Diehard Dozen' who had made the lang trek to Surrey!

Wor joy woz short lived however when the 'home' side equalised barely 3 mins later from a free kick from just ootside the box!

Wor lead woz regained in the 37th minute when Allen hit a shot from close range after a scramble in the box and we went in at the break 2-1 to the good!

There woz nee more scorin in the 2nd period although sub Sorensson nearly extended wor lead but woz denied by a brilliant one handed save from Readings keeper!

The win puts us into the draw for the last 8 with the possibility of more new groonds to add to wor never endin list!

Accordin to the team sheet

NUFCs number 2 is caalled

Steppy (Sterry)

It woz then 'homeward bound' (via 3 pubs) and aa got back yem at '11pm bells'---went straight to sleep "ZZZzzz!"----and got up at '4am bells' to catch the '5:26 bells train(s) to Bournemoooth for wor forst team game there, via Kings Cross again (13 hours after leavin there last neet!)
(A match report on that game to follow on Sunday!)

More to follow tomorrow when av had a rest az I am truely 'cream crackered' az I have had anly 3 hours sleep in the last 24!

*The 100 away pub crawl challenge woz extended by 3 to 103

The Dolphin,Kings Cross

London

The Pound Bar, Woking

McGlynns, Kings Cross, London

MAD-SAD MAYHEM!

Posted '2:48pm bells' Thorsday 14th March 2019

KINGFIELD STADIUM, WOKING FC

'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' face a hectic 2 days on Friday and Saturday, when forst we heed to Surrey where wor U23s are playin' Reading U23s in the 'U23s Premyaa Leegue Cup last 16' at Woking FCs Kingsfield Stadium and then onward to Dorset on Saturday where we face Bournemoooth in a Premyaa Leegue encoontaa at Dean Court! (aka Vitality Stadium)

The handful of groundhoppers deein the 2 games are stopping doon on the Friday neet for the relatively short trip between the 2 groonds!---BUT aa cannit and MUST come back on the Friday evenin, az I'm on one of those '2 must travel together tickets' for Bournemoooth and mee mate 'Big Al' (NOT the sheet metal workers son!) iz anly deein the Bournemoooth game and would face a heavy penalty charge (ower £100) if aa wasn't travellin with him! (The venue for the Reading game wasn't announced til last week AFTER we'd bought wor 'non returnable' Bournemoooth train tickets!)

SO! my 'itinerary' iz----catch the 7:29am bells' train to London from 'The Central' (station) on Friday mornin---heed for Woking to see wor U23s on a new groond (KO '1:00 bells') and then heed back to London to catch the '7:30pm bells' train from King's Cross and get yem around aboot '11pm-ish bells'---grab a few hours sleep "ZZZZzzzz!"---and heed back to 'The Central' on Saturday morning and catch the '5:26am bells' train back to King's Cross---and then onward to Bournemoooth for wor forst team game, which kicks off at '3:00 bells'---stop owerneet in London on the way back and then heed for King's Cross yet again to catch an orly Sunday mornin' train back to The Toon! (I hope yoo are followin' aall this!?) 
A total jorney of 1,300 miles by train by the time aa finally get back on Sunday!

They divvint caall me 'The mad-sad groundhopper' for nothin'!

PS: 'Geordie Times' match reports on both games will be done on mee 'mobile' on the train(s) back from London on Friday neet (Reading U23s game) and Sunday mornin' (Bournemoooth game)

*Beware of plenty of spelin mistayks az the train ride iz a bit bumpy!

LIFE BEGINS AT 40!

Posted '2:04pm bells' Wedinzday 13th March 2019

"THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!"

With just 8 games to gan til the end of the season, NUFC are 6 points above the drop zone and we have a suprerior goal difference to aall the othaa teams aroond us!

Rafa the Gaffa reckons 2 more wins from those 8 games will be enough, which would take us to the 'magical' 40 points mark, which will surely be enough to stay up!

With both 'uddersfeeeld and Fulim virtually certain to be relegated, it leaves the final relegation place the one to avoid!

Cardiff look the most likely to faall through the 'trapdoor' az they have tough games against Chelski, Man C, Liverpool and Man U still to play!

Games to play against (so caalled) 'big six' of Man C., Liverpool, Sporz, Arsenal, Moan U and Chelski

Cardiff 4 out of 8
Brightin 4 out of 9
Bornley 3 out of 8
'uddersfeeeld 3 out of 8
NUFC 2 out of 8
Fulim 2 out of 8
Palace 2 out of 8
Bournemoooth 1 out of 8
Sooothampton 1 out of 8

Wor next trip iz away to Bournemoooth on Saturday and if we win we will gan above them into 12th place in the table!

    

THE TOON U23S 0 THE HAZBEENZ AND VILLAINS U23S 3 ***FA PREMIER LEEGUE DIVISION 2

Posted '3:00pm bells' Tuesday 12th March 2019

BLUE FLAMES

"RESORVES IN REVERSE!"

Last neet at Blue Flames (aka Whitley Park) wor second string lost 3-0 to Aston Villa in a game played in strong winds in front of a sparce crowd of 235!
This dented wor bid for promotion to the top flight with just 4 games to gan!
We sit 5th in this 6 team leegue and anly the play offs are possible now!

THE TOON 3 THE TOFFEE NOSES 2 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2018-2019

Posted '10:29am bells' Sunday 10th March 2019

PEREZ (on the right) HITS THE WINNER PAST A DISPAIRIN PICKFORD!

*(GEORDIE TIMES EXCLUUUSIVE 'BLURRED' PICTURE!)

"WOW!"---JUSTICE IZ DONE!"

The main talkin' point of the game iz that 'Pickford the mackem' in the Everton goal should have been sent off after a rugby tackle in the box on Rondon after spillin an easy baall!---a clear sendin' off!
The ref Lee Mason gave the penalty but amazingly didn't send Pickford off---or even book him! (Even TV detective 'Perry' Mason would have sent him off!)

2 VIEWS OF THE RUGBY TACKLE ON RONDON!

Wor visitors were 1-0 up at the time through a Calvert-Lewin heeder at The Gallowgate End and Matt Richie stepped up to take the penalty but hit the baall low doon the middle and the 'SMB lover' saved it with hiz legs!---JUSTICE had NOT been done!

The Toffee Noses then went up the field and scored a second goal, when Richarlison hit hiz effort past Dubravka in the Toon goal and the game looked lost!
News that Cardiff were winnin 2-0 in the 2nd half filtered through to the crowd which would meen that they would anly be 3 points behind us in the last relegation place!

A corner to NUFC at the end of the 1st half woz somehow torned into a goal kick, which completely baffled and angered the crowd and ref Mason came off to loud booos at the interval!

And then the comeback!---a neet one-two between Perez and Rondon in the box gave Rondon a free hit, and he put the baall beyond Pickford to reduce the deficit!

The crowd were reeeely up for it and the equaliser followed soon after when 'butter fingers' Pickford spilled the baall after a great shot by Almeron and Perez woz on hand to hit the baall into the net to send the crowd crazy! (apart from the 3,000 Toffee Noses in The Leazes End 'gods' that iz!)

We were reeely gannin for it now and the winner came near the end when  a lob by Hayden into the box eventually foond Perez and he blasted a left footer past the dispairin Pickford to lift the roof off the stadium!
5 Toon players were offside but the officials missed it and the goal stood!---JUSTICE HAD BEEN DONE!

5 nail bitin minutes of stoppage time followed before 'Perry' Mason blew for time az the players took the plaudits on the pitch az the mackem man we love to hate heeded dejectedly doon the players tunnel----one hour later than he should have done!

A crucial 3 points and wor FIFTH home win on the spin lifted us to 13th in the table and just 3 points behind wor opponents in the table!
Brightin, Cardiff and Sooothampton aall won az well to keep us 6 points above the drop zone!
Its still aall to de, but the games are now startin to run oot (8 left) 

Toon team: Dubravka, Yedlin, Schar, Lascelles (Dummett 46), Lejeune, Ritchie (Kenedy 73), Perez, Hayden, Ki (Shelvey 79) , Almiron

Attendance: 52,242 (3,000 p*ssed of Toffee Noses!)

JUSTICE FOR 'BUTTER FINGERS'!

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FOR THE 5th HOME GAME IN A ROW HAPPY FANS LEAVE SJP!

EVEN 1960's TV DETECTIVE PERRY MASON 
WOULD HAVE SENT PICKFORD OFF!

ANOTHER VIEW OF

PICKFORD'S RUGBY TACKLE!😨

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

Posted '2:05pm bells' Friday 8th March 2019

THE CLUB CREST ON 'THE PEARLY GATES'

Tomorrow afternoon at the unusual time of '3 bells' we take on The Toffee Noses of Everton in the Premyaa Leegue at SJP and we will be attemptin' to win 5 games in a row at home for the forst time in 15 years! (since 2004!)

Saun Longstaff looks az though he will be missin' for the rest of the season with a cruciate ligament injury, which iz devastatin' news for him and aall NUFC fans! 
The Morseysiders sit in 10th place in the table, 6 points above us and have won 4 drawn 3 and lost 7 of their away games so far this season!

We will of course bring yoo, wor loyal subjects a full Geordie Times match report on Sunday!
Az per usual "Watch this space!"

"ATTENTION AALL NUFC MAD-SAD GROUNDHOPPERS!" *** "NEW GROOND! *** NEW GROOND"!

Posted '1:00pm bells' Thorsday 7th March 2019

"WOKING WOE!"

News reaches us from the Readin' website that wor Premier Leegue Cup tie v Readin' U23s will take place a week tomorrow on Friday 15th March at KINGFIELD STADIUM, WOKING, Surrey at '1:00pm bells!
A groond we have never been tee before!
"YAAHOOO!"😀

The logistics of gettin' there will prove a headache though, az we play Bounemoooth away in The Premyaa Leegue the day after.
The sensible thing to do iz stay the night in Woking and travel to Bournemoooth the next day, az it isn't far away!

HOWEVER! I am NOT a sensible person!---az I MUST travel back yem after the Woking game, az I have a train ticket where 2 people must travel together to Bournemoooth and aa will drop mee mate 'Big Al' 'in it' if aa don't travel doon with him!

Az the train fares are horrendous that Friday (£120 plus at least!) I will probably drive to Woking and back (roond trip 600 miles), gan to bed for a few hours---"ZZZZzzzz!" and heed for 'The Central' on the Saturday mornin' to catch the orly '5:26 bells' train to London and then onward to Bournemoooth---wor langest trip of the season at 700 miles for the roond trip!---That's 1,300 miles in total for the 2 games!
Footnote: I have foond a cheaper price for a retorn train jorney to London which iz £83 on the Friday---and then onward to Woking and back via tube and anothaa train! (£25?)---So train it iz!

Remember!  Yoo read aboot wor trip to Woking forst in 'The Geordie Times'--- and nee where else!😨

MORPETH HIGHWAYMEN 2 THE TOON U23s 0 *** NORTHUMBERLAND SENIOR CUP SEMI FINAL

Posted '2:03pm bells' Wedinzday 6th March 2019

"HIGHWAY ROBBERY!"

Wor U23s lost 2-0 against 10 men Morpeth in the Northumberland Senior Cup last neet at Craik Park in front of a 1,456 crowd!
We simply didn't get 'oot the blocks' and the home keeper had hardly out to dee in the entire match!
The Morpeth goals were scored by Henderson and Walton (pen)
Then the home side had Taylor sent off for a bad tackle on Matty Longstaff (the bruvva of 'Saun') but we couldn't make the numerical advantage pay! 
The Highwaymenz' reward iz a place in the final against  North Sheeeldz at SJP on a date to be conformed!

NUFC MAD-SAD GROUNDHOPPERS NEWS! **** POSSIBLE NEW GROOND!

Posted '2:05pm bells' Tuesday 5th March 2019

KINGFIELD STADIUM, WOKING F.C.

Wor U23s 'reward'? for getting to the knockout stages of the Premier Leegue Cup iz an away tie at Reading U23s!

Wor U23s played Reading last month in a leegue game which woz played at Wycome Wanderers FC! (a groond we have been tee before!)

HOWEVER!--in Leegue Cup games Reading have been usin' Woking FCs groond in Surrey (where we have never been!) and we have nee idea just where it will be played!? 

It could aalso be played at their main Madjeski Stadium groond!? (where of course, we have been az well!)

To put a 'spanner in the works' the game will be played between  Thorsday 14th March (before wor away game at Bournemoooth on Saturday 16th March) and Sunday 17th March the day after the Bournemoooth game!

It could aalso be played on the same day az we play Bournemoooth!

The best case scenario iz for the game to be played on the Thorsday or Friday at Woking before the Bournemoooth game---or at their main stadium or Wycombe, meenin' we can 'miss it' az we have been there before!

--And the worst case scenario iz for it to be played on the Saturday or Sunday at Woking's groond, az we will be forced to miss it because of the Bournemoooth 1st team game on Saturday! and because we travel back from Bournemoooth on Sunday mornin', so any game at Woking those days will be a non starter, az we need to get back on the Sunday!

We of course will let yoo know just when and where we will play the game az soon az we find oot!

"AALL REET MEE OLD CHINA!"

Posted '5:05pm bells' Munday 4th March 2019

News that NUFC are (allegedly!) to play in a pre season tournament in Shanghai in China haz reached 'The Geordie Times'!

It's caalled 'The Asian Premier League Trophy' and othaa teams involved will be Man City, Wolves and West Ham and the games are due to take place in July.
It comes az a surprize, az 'Rafa the Gaffa' iz known not to be in favour of long-haul pre season trips! (ie: Will he still be here then?) 

There iz NEE confirmation of this from NUFC (yet!?) and we await any forthaa news when we get it!

Az per usual watch this space for forthaa developments!