LATEST FROM LEIGH! *** FT *** MOAN U U23S 2 THE TOON U23S 1

Posted '9:03 pm bells' Friday 10th January 2020

Spot the Moan U 'faithful flags' behind the left hand goal!

Moan U U23s 2 v  The Toon U23s 1 (Elliot Anderson)
Anderson scored a last minute goal with a powerful shot that went in off the post, but it woz tooo late to avoid defeat!

 special thanx to

'NUFC mad-sad groundhopper' 

'Glennn from Ashington' 

for pix!

*Attendance: 1,700

WOLVERHAMPTON WANABEEZ V THE TOON *** TOMORROW AFTERNOOON!

Posted '1:40pm bells' Friday 10th January 2020

We heed for the delights of 'the black country' in the mornin, where will be playin Wolves at Molineux in a '3:00 bells' ko

Havin lost wor last 3 Premyaa Leegue games, we reely must try and get sommik from a high flyin Wolves team who sit in 7th place in the table, compared to wor 13th place and now just 5 points above the drop zone!
We actually have a very good record at Molineux, havin' been undefeated in wor last 5 visits here, and have NEVER lost here in the Premyaa Leegue era---wor last top flight loss comin 43 years ago in 1977!

A proven striker iz needed for certain in the January window, but we fear (yet again!) that wor absent owner 'The Fat Controller', will just "suck hiz thumbs" and "hope for the best!"

Dummett, Gayle, Almiron and Carroll are available and Saint-Maximin iz said to be in contention for a much needed retorn to the fray!

NUFC have sold wor entire allocation of 3,000 tickets for The Steve Bull Stand!
Mee forst ever visit to Molineux woz way back in 1968 and a match report from that game from nearly 52 years ago, iz reprinted below this article! (ground number 005)

Meeenwhile, tooneet wor U23s travel to Leigh Sports Village in Lancashire where we take on Moan Us equivalent and 'Glennn from Ashington' will send us match pix etc from the game (We've been to Leigh before in 2011!)

A full Geordie Times match report on the Wolves game will appear here sometime on Sunday, plus a brief match report on wor U23s game!
Az per usual, "Watch this space!"

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005 molineux wolves 1968

(GROUND NUMBER 5)

Dateline: 23rd NOVEMBER 1968

MOLINEUX, WOLVERHAMPTON

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 5

NEWCASTLE UNITED 0

(OLD) DIVISION ONE

ATTENDANCE 25,425

"WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF!"

It was ‘six bells’ on the Saturday mornin’ when mee mate Billy, who lived in the next street ,  knocked on mee front door. At forst aa did’nt recognise him as he was sportin’ a brand new  skinheed haircut, a pair of ‘Doc Marten’ steel cappers and was wearin’ ‘his braces slack’ (as the aad song gans!) He looked a reet ‘hard case’ and was the ‘forst kid on the block’ to join the new skinheed craze that was sweepin’ the nation!

“Howway!”, he said, twangin’ his new braces with his ‘tom plumbs’, “Wor Paul’s gannih give wi a lift ower the Toon!”, he added, pointin’ towards an ‘old two tone banger’ parked ootside with it’s engine revvin’. (the ‘two tone’ bein’ manky blue and rust!)

And so ‘it came to pass’ that me and mee mate, ‘Billy The Hard Case'  (as he was now known!) travelled doon tih Wolves by supporters bus from Morden Street in the Haymarket.

It was Billy's 15th borthday and we were convinced that the Toon would win easily and on the way doon, wih stopped off at a motorway services for an hours break and heeded straight for the 'tool shed' for a 'gypsies kiss' as we were ‘burstin’ by this time.

Bein' 'hard cases', (Er!---aa was Billy’s ‘lieutenant’!) and after wi’d had wor ‘gypsies’, wih noticed that aall the bogs were empty as aall the doors were ajar. (so wih thought!)

There were aboot six bogs in a row, so wih decided tih kick aall the doors open, just for 'the shear hell of it!'.

Billy kicked the forst one with his new 'steel cappers' ---------the door hit the waall and nearly came off it's hinges!.

Ah kicked the second door, and so on. Wih got tih the last bog, and decided tih kick the door together.

Wih kicked it as hard as wih could and the door swung back and wih heard a loud crack!--there was a slight pause---and then there was a very loud high pitched scream!---which went something like---"AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRHHHHHHH!!!!"

There for aall tih behold, was a gadgie sittin' on the pan, gettin' a 'dynamite!', with his strides aroond his 'Hans Crankels'.

He obviously had’nt locked the door properly and he sat there  holdin' his 'Vesta Tilly' in one hand, and his 'toon halls' in the other!.

He was in agony, an' wih just stood there, 'rooted tih the spot!'. and it did’nt take a genius to  work oot that the edge of the bog door had hit him in a very ‘delicate’ area!)

He was built like the brick s***hoose he was sittin' in!, (very appropriate!) and he had a face 'a dog would'nt lick'!

 When he'd regained his composure, he just 'eye-baalled' us!, torned 'bright red' with rage!, (bog rage perhaps?) an' shouted at the top of his voice!-

"YER LITTLE BASTARDS!---I'LL KNOCK YER F***** HEADS TOGETHER, WHEN I GET A HOLD OF YIZ!!!"

Ah just looked at Billy!-------and Billy looked at me!-------

'PANIC STATIONS!!!'---Luckily for us, he had'nt 'finished!', and the fact that he still on ‘the pot’ with his troosers doon by his ankles meant that he could’nt chase us!---SO!  (az yi de!) wih 'legged it' as fast as wih could tih the 'tool shed' entrance, pushin' each other oot the way, in the 'mad scramble' tih try and get oot the door forst!.

Wih ran aroond the corner and hid behind some rubbish bins, until it was time for the bus tih leave. Wih sneaked onto the bus by the emergency exit, prayin' that he would'nt 'clock us', and---after what seemed like an age, we eventually drove off---phew!---we were safe!.

Wih had a great laugh aboot it (and still de!) and telt everybody on the bus what had happened, not mentionin' of course, that wih ran off, scared oot wor wits!------after aall, we were 'hard cases'---WERE'NT WE!?.

"THERE'S A FLY IN MEE PIE!"

An aad gadgie on the bus aged aboot thorty five, gave Billy a pork pie. (when yih anly fourteen, thorty five IZ aad!)  As he was tekin' the second bite oot of it, he noticed sommik black, baked in the middle.

The gadgie took one look and telt him it looked like a deed fly which had met a horrible death by bein’ baked alive in the pie!

This was too much for Billy, and he promptly ‘hoyed up’ aall ower the back seat and doon the bus window!

(SO!---Just like his dodgy 'scabby eye',  his fifteenth borthday celebrations, WOR'NT! ‘gannin' doon well’, eeetha!)

We arrived at Molineux aroond an hour before the kick off, tih be 'greeted' by aboot 200 Wolves fans who were waitin’ to ambush the away coaches, and they charged at us doon the hill, next tih the 'South Bank End'.

So!---wih had tih'leg it' again!. (It certainly keeps yih fit, bein' a Toon fan aa thought!)

Wi'd arranged tih meet Billy's older brother Alan, who lived doon there, and, as luck would have it, we were runnin' in the reet direction, and bumped into him next tih the main entrance.

Wih quickly decided that the safest place tih be, would be inside the groond, and headed for the turnstiles at the 'South Bank'.

This end of Molineux was massive and was aboot fower times the size of the 'North Bank' opposite, where the Wolves 'Kop' was and we were telt that it held 30,000! (more than half the groonds capacity!)

The 'Molineux Street Stand', tih the right, had a multi-span roof and was a weird lookin' thing. It was twice the height at one end than the other, and it looked lop-sided and ready tih faall doon!.

However, it was the Toon's defence that was 'lop-sided' and we were two-nowt doon by half time!. The second half was even worse, and before lang we were fower -nowt doon, and Newcastle goalie Willie McFaul looked 'as sick as a pig!'.

(So were we, Willie, so were we!)

Billy and Alan wanted tih gan, but aa insisted on stayin' 'tih the bitter end', and mee 'loyalty' was rewarded, when Wolves scored again, just before 'the death'.

NOT!, the result wi'd expected!,or the borthday present that Billy had wanted!.

(Yih could say, 'we were thrown to the Wolves'!) (sic!)

On the final whistle, wih heeded for Alan's hoose for some 'tea and sympathy', before catchin' the bus yem, prayin' that wih would'nt be stoppin' at the same motorway services on the way back!.

(JUST IN CASE!)

Aaltogether now!

♫Mee boots are Dr Martens, aa wear mee braces slack!♪

♪And if aa eat a dodgy pie, aa’ll ‘hoy up’ at the back!♫♫

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NUFC 2020 CALENDER BLUNDER! *** "YI COULDNT MAKE IT UP!"

Posted '6:15pm bells' Thorsday 9th January 2020 at Trowell services truck park, M1 south

News haz reached The Geordie Times that NUFC have released their new calender, which features THREE player who nee langer play for us!

Ayoze Perez takes pride of place in the 'January 2020' page of the calender and there are aalso photos of Kenedy and Rondon!
Aall 3 left The Toon last summer!

To rub salt into the wounds, Perez actually scored AGAINST US on New Years Day, in Lestaa'z 3-0 win at SJP!!!

UNBELEEEVABLE!----But it just gans to show wot a shambolic state wor great club iz in, which seemingleee iz run by lunatic asylum inmates!

MOAN U U23s v THE TOON U23s *** TOMORROW NEET IN LEIGH!

Posted '12:52pm bells' Thorsday 9th January 2020

A POSTER FROM THE BLEAKBORN GAME IN 2011

Before wor forst team game v Wolves away on Saturday, wor U23s have a game at Leigh Sports Village, in deepest Lancashire, where we are takin on Moan U U23s.
The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers have been here before in 2011, when we played Bleakborn Rovers resorves, who were the resident home club back then!
Leigh RLFC aalso play here!

A Geordie Times match report on that game nearly 9 years ago iz printed below!

278 leigh sports village stadium blackburn

(GROUND NUMBER 278)
DATE OF FIRST VISIT: 11^th APRIL 2011
LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE STADIUM, LEIGH


BLACKBURN ROVERS RESERVES 4
NEWCASTLE UNITED RESERVES 4 (Phil Airey(2)(1pen), Ryan McDonald, James Perch)


FA PREMIER RESERVE LEAGUE
ATTENDANCE: 416 (at least 150 Toon fans)




"WOT'S THE SCORE---LIKE!?"

The 'batmobile' left Tyneside at 'one thorty bells' with meesel and 'The Caped Crusader' on board and wor forst 'port o' caall' was 'The Farmhoose' boozer at 'Middleton St George' near Darlo to pick 'Alex of St George' up. After a 'swift gargel' in 'The Farm' to lubricate wor tonsils!, (Er!-not! 'The Caped Crusader'---he waz drivin'!) it was off to the 'A64' slip road on the 'A1' to pick 'Dave from York' up to complete the 'fab foursome'?


Thankfully this game wasn't behind closed doors like the resorve game at Great Barr six days orlier against West Brom, so we didn't have to mek 'prior arrangements' to get into this one (see ground 277 )
On wor way ower the 'M62' Alex spotted seven tower blocks in a town on the right hand side of the motorway and asked where it was. "Rochdale!" aa replied as we sped past at 90 mph.
Dave then butted in!----"I once had a weeks holiday in Rochdale when I was 17!", he said, as a deathly hush desended ower the car.
"ROCHDALE!"---we aaall said in unison after a short interlude!—and then he explained?
"A mate of mine back then (many many many moons ago!) had an auntie who lived in Rochdale and as he was gannin' to visit hor for a week, he asked me to gan to keep him company and so I did!"



"Wish you were here!?"

Nuw divvint get me wrang!---a'v never ever been to Rochdale in mee 'natch' and I'm sure it's a very nice place? , (or NOT as the case may be!) and aa must have past it a thoosand times travellin' back and forth across the M62 through work and futbaall--- BUT!--- to ADMIT! gannin' there for a WEEKS HOLIDAY???
(A message to 'Dave from York'!---you should never had told me this!---now 5,352 people (last coont on the page views) in 84 countries across the globe from Rochdale to Reykjavik and Rawalpindi to Rio, naa aboot this, through 'The Geordie Times' and I naa a 'very good' psychiatrist if you need one, who does a 'great line' in straight jackets!)


ANYWAY!---enough of that!---we sped on to Leigh and after getting' lost a couple of times (aa was the navigator!) we eventually foond the groond by followin' the signs to 'Leigh Sports Village' (would you believe!?)
After parkin' up we made for the ticket office where we purchased wor 'prized bits of paper'? and made for 'The Legends Bar' which was built into the back of the main stand and it opened at '5 bells' which was good timin' by us as we arrived just as they were aboot to open the doors!


Dave (now known az 'The Rochdale Cowboy'!) asked for fower pints of Tetley's Bitter as there was a notice pinned to the waall which said that there was a 'four pints for three' offer. The barman said that the notice shud have been taken doon as this was a 'happy hour' price but promised us that we would get that deal as long as we stopped there. He then took the notice off the wall so nebody else could get the same 'deal'!
("cheers mate!")
The fact was that it was virtually desorted outside until an hour before the desegnated kick off @ '7 bells' when, forst, 'Glennn from Ashington' torned up and then his 'sidekick' 'Byzy' appeared a few minutes later and the forst thing they did was complain aboot the price of their pints (ower three quid!)
Wors on the other hand worked oot at just ower TWO quid a pint with the discount!




"er!-aa foond this one on the floor!"

To compensate for this they nicked two posters off the waall for souvenirs which advertised the match and they carefully rolled them up, so as not to 'damage them' and put them into a carrier bag! (it's gettin' REEELY SAD NOW!

<--isn't it!?)

As it torned oot nebody else came into the bar, which is sommik that a'v never seen before and in total we had 18 pints between us! If we hadn't been there the bar takins would have been ZERO!
It was nearly kick off time so we left and heeded for the tornstiles a few yards away---no queues—nothin'!


Opened in 2009 by hor majesty 'The Queen' ne less!, 'The Sports Village Stadium' which is home to 'Leigh Centurions Rugby League Club' is quite smart with red covered seats on three sides and a covered standin' terrace behind the left end goal from us with an electronic scoreboard tucked into the far corner of the groond.
My estimate of the crowd was around the 350 mark, with at least 150 Toon fans present as the game kicked off, and they were dotted around the main stand which was the anly stand open.
Blackburn is some 17 miles distant from Leigh with Wigan and Bolton and Manchester much closer, so a low crowd was always gannih be the case as this isn't their 'territory'


The Toon took the lead in the 20^th minute when Ryan Donaldson was shoved ower in the penalty area and Phil Airey convorted the resultin' spot kick (1-0 to us)
The lead anly lasted anly 5 mins though, when Rochina chipped Tim Krul in the Toon goal (1-1)
The home side went forther aheed when Diouf rounded Krul to sidefoot into the empty net (2-1 to them)
8 mins into the 2^nd half Blackburn increased their lead with a dubious 'was it ower the line'? goal from Rochina (3-1 to them) and at this point the tannoy announcer telt us that ---'Rochina was the goal scorer and that NEWCASTLE! were nuw 3-1 up!', much to the merriment of the crowd.
(Aa wonder if this is anythin' to de with the fact that Leigh's stadium manager is called 'a' Mr TOON!)◄(honest!---it's true!)
To forther confuse matters the scoreboard operator gave the score as 2-2! on the electronic scoreboard! ("HELP!----a'v had too much to drink!") This was corrected to '3-1' to Rovers 5 minutes later to ironic cheers from the crowd!




"KINDERGARDENHOPPERS RULE OK!"

"THE FRIENDS OF NEWCASTLE UNITED!"

Ryan Donaldson then pulled one back for us in the 70^th minute with a mazy run from his own half before pokin' the baall past Kean in the Blackburn goal (3-2 to them)
The equaliser came in the 77^th minute when Phil Airey got his 2^nd as he turned the baall in from a centre by Tavernier (3-3)
This goal was greeted with high pitched shrills from a group of nursery kids who for some reason had just appeared in the corner of the stand and they started singin' in ear splittin' tones, "NEW-CAS-EL" ---"NEW-CAS-EL!" (aahh the little darlin's!)
Divvint ask me why they were supportin' 'The Toon' as I divvint naa the reason and aa havvent got a clue why??? (perhaps they were the members of the NUFC Kindergardenhoppers Branch!?)
An amazin' last few minutes saw The Toon gan into the lead when James Perch heeded home from a few yards oot to surely win the game! (4-3 to us!)
But NO!---the home side were not to be denied when Potts 'potted' the baall with a 20 yard curler to end this pulsatin' eight goal thriller in Leigh (4-4 final score!)


Just to summerize ---the score sequence went as follows (deep breath!) Newcastle score forst: 1-0 1-1 1-2 3-1!? 2-2!? 1-3 2-3 3-3 4-3 4-4! ("Er!---aa think that's reet!??")


With 'the batmobile's' 'rocket boosters' on full power we heeded back ower the 'M62' and sped past 'Dave from York's' ("er!-sorry!"-'The Rochdale Cowboy's'!) favourite holiday resort?  once again and were back yem 'before we knew it', with another groond chalked off the neva endin' list!


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ITS THE ROCHDALE COWBOYS NEXT TUESDAY NEET!

Posted '6:35pm bells' Tuesday 7th January 2020at Trowell services truck park,M1 south!
Updated Wedinzday at 'high noon bells' (on Tyneside!)

Comin' soon to SJP!

Its finally been confirmed that we will play Rochdale in the FA Cup 3rd roond replay at SJP next Tuesday neet the 14th January at '7:45 bells'
The game is NOT on the telly and the winners will progress to the 4th roond where they will play Oxfaad at home at the end of January!
'The Cowboys' have been given 5,000 tickets for The Leazes End level 7, but we still expect a low crowd of roond aboot 20,000.
Ticket prices are less than half of wot Rochdale charged NUFC fans last Saturday and are £10 for big kids and a fiver for sprogs and zimmerframeites ('Big kids' were charged £27 at Rochdale!) 

If we can't beat 2 Leegue One clubs at home, to reach the 5th roond, then we NEVER will!

It is now 14 years since we got past January in the FA Cup!
Since 'The Fat Controller' bought wor club in 2007, we have NEVER got past the 4th roond!

"February!--February! here we come!???"😳

FA CUP 4th ROOND DRAW TOONEET

Posted '12:45pm bells' Munday 6th January 2020
Updated '9:01pm bells'

SIXFIELDS STADIUM, NORTHAMPTON---POSSIBLE NEW GROOND!

NUFC are very lucky to be in tooneet's draw for the 4th roond of the FA Cup, az The Rochdale Cowboys missed a very easy chance at the end of Saturday's game at Spotland to win it!

We are baall number 7, so lets hope its a 'lucky' home draw when the baalls are picked oot of the hat at '7:35 bells' tooneet (live on BBC 1)

The Rochdale replay will take place next week on eetha Tuesday or Wedinzday. (for live telly nee doubt!)

MEMORIAL STADIUM, BRISTOL ROVERS---POSSIBLE NEW GROOND!

We've had a look at the teams we could face in the next roond and the bad news for 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' iz that anly TWO teams are left in the draw who's groond's we have nevaa been tee---namely The Memorial Stadium, Bristol Rovers (who drew 2-2 with Coventry) and Sixfeeelds, the home of Northampton Toon(who won 4-1 at Burton), shud we get an away tie!

Indeed!---after wor forst ever visit to Spotland, there are now anly 8 leegue groonds that we have still to visit watchin The Toon----and they are:
Northampton, Bristol Rovers, Forest Green, Newport, AFC Wimbledon, MK Dons, Salford and Fleetwood Toon!
The latter 6 are oot of the FA Cup and so they are "no go!"

The Geordie Times will of course bring yoo news on the draw and replay date az soon az we find oot!
Az per usual---"Watch this space!"

Updated '9:01 pm bells at Redditch in Worcestershire

UNIVORSITY CHALLENGE

IT'S OXFAAD,THE TEAM FROM THE UNIVORSITY CITY, IN THE 4TH ROOND AT SJP IF WE BEAT ROCHDALE IN THE REPLAY (NO DATE FOR THAT YET?)

346 spotland, rochdale

Ground number 346
Date of First Visit: 4th January 2020
Spotland (aka Crown Oil Arena), Rochdale

Rochdale 1
Newcastle United 1 (Almiron)

FA Cup 3rd round
Attendance: 8,593 (3,200 Toon fans)

VIEW FROM ROW 'J', SEAT '93' OF THE WILLBUTTS LANE STAND

"OH NO JOE!--I DON'T 'FINK' SO!"

After many years of hopin' that one day we would get to Spotland in Rochdale for a game, it finally happened in the 3rd roond draw of the FA Cup!
A leegue groond av wanted to 'tick off mee list' for many a year, had finally happened, but az wor record in any of the domestic cups iz woeful against lower leegue clubs (23 defeats against lower opposition since world war 2!) I woz excited, but apprehensive aboot yet anothaa 'disaster day' to add to the record books!

Aalso, on my part, a'd never been to Rochdale on any occasion before, so to get a chance to visit new boozers woz aalso an added bonus! (a'd actually passed through it a few weeks ago on the train on the way to and back from Bornley for a Premyaa Leegue fixture!

We arrived in Rochdale at 10:00 bells after leavin 'The Central' at '6:55 bells' and heeded for a real ale bar which we'd been told aboot, called The Flying Horse where we had a 'nose bag' (brekkies) washed doon with a pint of the local brew!

We stopped there for the duration and left 45 mins before kick off to catch a bus to the ground which iz 3 miles from Rochdale toon centre in the suburb of 'Spotland' (Hence the groond's name!)

Actually, its now caalled 'The Crown Oil Arena', but I like to gan by original names, so 'Spotland' it iz for me!
We had the entire Willbutts Lane Stand on the side of the pitch, which held 3,200 enthusiastic Toon fans!

1st HALF ACTION AZ 'THE ORANGEMEN'

 ATTACK THE RIGHT HAND GOAL!

Can yoo spot the Rochdale mascot on the far touchline?
Its Desmond the dragon!!!
(Looks more like Bugs Bunny to me!)

Playin' in wor aall orange change strip, we went for 'the jugular' straight away, az we attacked the goal to wor right and had several chances to take the lead and finally the breakthrough in the 17th minute, when Miggy Almiron fired home a left foot drive to send the Toon fans into rapturous over the top celebrations! (we were anly playin a Leegue One club after aall!)
Instead of killin' the game off, we missed chance after chance to extend wor lead, most notably, wor 40 million poond number 9 Joelinton who missed at least 3 glorious chances to double wor advantage!------Somehow Rochdale survived and they went in just 1-0 doon at half time!

2nd HALF 

Again, in the 2nd half we went 'for broke' and again Joelinton missed chances to add to hiz one solitary goal in 22 games!
The frustration from the Toon fans woz loud, az he lumbered aboot!

The turnin point came with just 11 minutes left on the clock when Joelinton lost possession and the home side raced doon the pitch!

The baall fell to 40 year old Rochdale forward Wilbraham and he made nee misstayk from close in with a left foot shot, which beat Dubravka in the Toon goal!
Disaster had struck and az the Rochdale fans celebrated the Toon fans torned on Joelinton and he got some horrendous stick for hiz blunder and oweraall performance!---We'd finally 'snapped' and 'Joe' woz the scapegoat!

The home side then went to win the game and if it wasn't for Dubravka makin' some heroic saves near the end, we would surely have lost this game!
Loud boooing and heckling from the travellin' contingent followed at the final whistle, az we left the groond to drown wor sorrows back in Rochdale toon centre! 

In the end, we were lucky to get an unwanted replay, but should have sown the game up lang before half time!---Humiliation and disaster once again, but not az bad az the 3-0 hammerin' by Leegue One Oxfaadd  3 years ago!--(Thank god for smaall mercies!)

We then caught a train to Leedz where several more 'sustenance' in the followin' 3 'liquid lubrication locations', before heedin back to The Toon via York!

"WE MADE A 'PIG' OF WORSELS IN THIS BAR!"

Team line ups and more pix later az its time to 'gan on the hoy' in The Toon for a few 'liquid lubrications'!

Toon team: Dubravka, Yedlin, Krafth, Ferandez, Hayden, Atsu, S Longßtaff, M Longstaff, Almiron (Ritchie 64),Muto (Ki 53), Joelinton


Attendance:8,593 (3,200 exasperated Toon fans)

"WE'RE ALL GOING ON A SUMMER HOLIDAY!"

"ROCHDALE!--ROCHDALE---HERE WE COME!"

On a lighter note, many, many years ago, when he woz anly 17, septuagenarian 'NUFC mad-sad groundhopper' 'Dave from York' went for a weeks holiday in---wait for it!---ROCHDALE!

Hiz mate's family lived there and he woz invited to stay for a week in this bleak and desolate toon, with its smoked filled cotton mill chimney's pollutin the atmosphere with thick black smog and grime!

A'v said to him 'many a time', that if we ever played in Rochdale, he would get some horrendous stick in 'The Geordie Times'!

Surely Rochdale would be in your top 10 list of places to send your muthaa in law for hor holidays, behind that God forsaken place, pennywell in sun'lind, the acrid smelling chemical works in middlesbro and central Beirut!

"AALTOGETHER NOW!"

"We're all goin on a sum-mer holiday!
No more workin for a week or two!
We're off to Roch-dale for our summer holiday!
Smoke poll-ution for a week or two!
For me and you!"

"We're goin where the sun don't shine!
We're goin where its cold and blue!
We've seen it on Crime-stoppers!
Now lets see if its true!"





  

THE ROCHDALE COWBOYS V THE TOON *** FA CUP 3RD ROOND TOMORROW

Posted '12:55pm bells' Friday 3rd January 2020

8 OF 'THE NUFC MAD-SAD GROUNDHOPPERS' WHO ARE 

VISITIN' ROCHDALE FOR THE FORST TIME EVER!

Tomorrow 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' will break new groond when we visit Spotland, in Rochdale!

'Yours truly' haz passed Rochdale a million times or more (slight exaggeration!) on the A62/M62 in visits to other groonds in this area since the 1960s and in mee job az a truck driver since the 1970s

We actually passed through it a few weeks back on the train on wor way to and from Bornley for a Premyaa Leegue fixture!
I've wanted to cross this groond 'off mee list' for years az it woz the anly Lancashire Leegue groond at the time where a'd never seen The Toon play!

Since then 2 more Lancashire clubs have been promoted from non leegue in the last few years, namely Fleetwood and Salford, but Rochdale is the one for me!---and at last I will get the chance, come the '12:31 bells' kick off time for live telly!
NUFC have sold wor entire 3,200 ticket allocation for The Willbutts Lane Stand which runs the full length of one sideline

We are on the 6:55 bells' train to Manchester in the mornin' and then onward to the delights of Rochdale train station (and the surrounding boozers!)
Az it's a orly kick off we wont have much time for 'tonsil ticklin' before the game---but plenty of time afterwards!🍺

At the time of writin', we have 11 crocked 1st team squad players, so a few reserves and kids, might--just might, make the starting line up!  (I am sure aall Rochdale fans will be delighted by this!)
In wor U23s game at Little Benton this afternoon (Won 3-0 v Fulim U23s (Longelo, Toure, Fernandez), we have left oot strikers Tom Allen and Elias Sorensen, plus defenders Lewis Cass and the delightfully musically named Ludwig Francillette (Nee relation to composer Ludwig van Beethoven!), which meenz they could be included in the forst team squad at Spotland!

FACTFILE: NUFC have never played Rochdale in a competitive game, mainly due to the fact that we have never played lower than the 2nd tier of Inglish futbaall and Rochdale have never played higher than the 3rd tier!
We HAVE played them in  Wartime Cup games in 1941, when we lost 2-1 at SJP, but won 3-1 at Spotland---Yoo would have to be at least 85 years old to have been to these games, which in effect were friendlies!
CONCLUSION: Not ONE of the 3,200 Toon fans who will be there tomorrow, will have been there before to watch us!

A full 'Geordie Times' match report on the game and 'booze cruise' pix will appear here sometime on Sunday!

Let's hope we are in the draw for the 4th roond, but as NUFC have lost a staggerin' 23 times to lower leegue and non leegue sides since the 2nd World War, divvint haad yet breath!😵