Posted '12:50am bells' Thorsday 14th January 2021
We havvint commented much on the shambolic display at Sheffeeeld United!---we divvint need tee---The back page of 'The Ronny Gill' sez aall that needs to be said!
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Posted '12:50am bells' Thorsday 14th January 2021
We havvint commented much on the shambolic display at Sheffeeeld United!---we divvint need tee---The back page of 'The Ronny Gill' sez aall that needs to be said!
Posted 11:11am bells' Tuesday 12th January 2021 and will be updated aroond aboot '9:00pm bells' when the match has finished!
He's said that they will be a tough team to beat and that it will be a very hard game to win!? (They havint won aall season in the Leegue with 2 draws and 15 defeats!)
In othaa words Broken Nose Bruce iz gettin hiz excuses in, even before the game has kicked off! (With nee wins in 7, he's got the post match "We played well, even though we lost!" interviews, off 'to a tee'!)
If we carnt beat the worst team (by far!) in the leegue, them who the hell can we beat!???
Make nee misstayk, the result of this game will define wor season!
I will be drivin mee truck to Redditch once again in an hours time and will have listen to the live commentary on the radio, on the way back up the M1 instead of watchin on mee laptop (Am I lucky or wot?)
I will try and watch a bit of the game on mee mobile phone, but the last time the picture froze, so it is likely to be a radio commentary!
Az I carnt dee live updates while a'm drivin, the match report wont be forthcoming til aa stop at Woolley Edge sorvices truck park on the way back! (Brief report!)
Let's hope that it isn't a 'sheepish' report from 'Woolley' Edge!? 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
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NEE DEFENCE FOR THAT!
LOST 1-0 WITH 10 MEN BUT WE GOT WOT WE DESORVED FOR PLAYIN A DEFENSIVE PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE WORST TOP FIGHT TEAM IN HISTORY!
THE PEN MIGHT HAVE BEEN DODGY BUT WE WERE TERRIBLE! EVEN ON THE RADIO!
COMMENTATORS 'WILLED' SHEFFEEELD TO WIN!
TOTALLY BIASED COMMENTRY FROM RADIO 5 LIVE!
WE ARE IN A RELEGATION BATTLE NOW FOR CERTAIN!
Even though we played with 10 men in the entire 2nd half the possession stats make very sorry readin against the worst team in the Premyaa Leegue!
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Posted '6:09pm bells' Sunday 10th January 2021
"THE PUNISHMENT JUST GANS ON!--AND ON!---AND ON!"
Below are 'Broken Nose Bruce's 'excuses' for the last 7 winless games! Won 0 Drawn 2 Lost 5
The Arse lost 2-0
"We've got to dust ourselves down and go again!" (the umpteenth time he's said this!)
"In 18 months we've been to 2 quarter finals!" (WOW!)
"I thought Andy Carroll was fantastic!" (he missed 2 sitters!)
"We've got to roll our sleeves up!" (the umpteenth time he's said this!)
Lestaa lost 2-1
"We gave the ball away cheaply!" (VERY cheaply!)
"I can't fault the players effort!" (2 shots on target!)
"We have been punished!"
The Liverbirds drew 0-0
"We gave the ball away cheaply!" (see above)
"They put in a hell of a shift!" (27% possession at home, 2 shots on target!)
"It was a great performance!" (0-0?)
Man City lost 2-0
"We are where we are!" (near the bottom of the table)
"It is what it is!"---"The fans have got to accept it!" (that we will remain a mediocre team!)
"There was mass hysteria and histrionics after the Brentford game and the criticism in my opinion was unjust!" (Oh no it wasn't!)
"It was a decent performance!" (lost 2-0) (Man City had 88% possession in the 2nd half!) (2 shots on target)
"They rolled their sleeves up!" (see above)
Brentford lost 1-0
"We've got to dust ourselves down!" (see above)
"I am not one to make excuses!" (EH!)
"Progress was there for everyone to see!---we got to a quarter final!" (By beating Morecambe and Newport--after a penalty shootout!)
Fulham drew 1-1
"I cant fault the players effort!" (see above) (Despite playin against 10 men for most of the 2nd half, Fulham STILL had more possession!)
"We can perform better than we didn't!" (Whatever thats supposed to mean?)
"We'll dust ourselves down (see above) and get ready for Tuesday!" (Brentford away)
Leeedz lost 5-2
"Up til the 75th minute I thought we were comfortable!" (The game actually lasts for 90 minutes, Steve!)
"We cant make those mistakes we made here!" (But we DID!)
"We gave the ball away cheaply!" (see above)
"I'll leave it for other people to judge!" (👎)
Posted from '4:30pm bells' onwards, Saturday 9th January 2021
*Live goal updates az they happen! Plus any incidents, possession rates, shots on goal etc
Geordie Times predictions
25% possession and 4 efforts on target for NUFC
But we wont predict the score!🙏
Halfway through 1st half and amazingly NUFC have had 53% possession but nee shots on goal! The Arse have had 3 good chances but Dubravka in the Toon goal has come to the rescue!
*HT 0-0 possession doon to 35% still nee shots on target nee corners to us but The Arse have had 5
Hooray 52nd minute shot on goal from Carroll!
And from a Toon fans telly in Maynoooth, Ireland!
Spot the headless chicken?
*Halfway through 2nd half
40% possession and 1 shot on goal and still nee corners for us! (We predicted 4 shots, not lookin good for that!)
88th minute 1st corner to us "WOW!"
Stoppage time Carroll should have scored!--missed goal altogether! "Oh Carroll!"
FT 0-0 Extra time Wot have we done to deserve 30 minutes more of this!?
*HT extra time still 0-0 ( wor lass is gannin mad coz they've cancelled 'Casualty' az the futbaall haz overran!)
Still just 2 shots on goal from NUFC!--riveting stuff!
goal at last but it's for The Arse! 12 mins of extra time left!
1-0 doon!
goal 2-0 doon 117th minute and the season is dead already az far az trophies are concerned!
At least we cannit get drawn against Chorley in the next roond!
Full time!
After the match Broken Nose Bruce dug oot one of his tired old excuses after yet another defeat!
"We've got to dust ourselves down and go again!"
"ZZZZzzzz!"😴
Posted 'high noon bells' Saturday 9th January 2021
LONDON IN LOCKDOON CRISIS---BUT IT'S OK FOR NUFC TO TRAVEL THERE!
One in thorty Londoners are infected by 'the bat out of hell' virus, yet elite futbaall in the capital city carries on?
NUFC play The Arse at The 'Em' in north London, which iz live on 'the BEEB' at '5:30 bells' this evenin'---and we hear that we are to play a virtual resorve side az a consequence of wor leegue position (ie: play a weakened team in the FA Cup and 'rest the 'best' for wor crucial leegue game away to Sheff U next Tuesday)
A full Geordie Times match report on the game will given via live updates from mee livin room's telly!
PS: Normally I would have dragged meesel oot of bed at '5 bells' this mornin to catch a train to King's Cross---and then onward via a London tube train to the groond!
Instead I got up at '5 bells' to drive mee truck to Redditch in Worcestershire, az I've been asked to gan to work at short notice!
*I have scheduled this post to gan online at 'high noon bells'
I shud be back in good time for the kick off!
Posted '5:00pm bells' Friday 8th January 2021
News reaches The Geordie Times that wor manager is to change his tactics in an attempt to avoid the dreaded drop!
Posted '10:44am bells' Thorzsay 7th January 2021
News that up to 11 changes may be made for wor FA Cup thord roond tie haz reached The Geordie Times!
This doesn't reeely suprize us az staying in the Premyaa Leegue iz wor top priority now!The FA Cup iz a shadow of wot it used to be in the 1960s when aa started gannin to games!
It woz THE domestic trophy to win, even better that the Leegue title at the time!
For example, when we lost to little Carlisle at SJP in the late 1960s a crowd of 56,500 plus torned up to witness it!
Yet average leegue crowds at that time were aroond aboot 36,000---20,000 less than for that cup tie!
Now the exact opposite happens and crowds at FA Cup ties at SJP are usually 20,000 less than for Leegue games! (That's when they decide to let us back in, like!?)
We are now reduced to teams puttin oot a resorve X1 so az not to sustain injuries to their star players for Leegue games!
This is how far this once mighty cup compitition, haz fallen in the peckin order!
If it's TRUE that NUFC will play a virtual resorve side then a hidin' is likely to take place at The Emitates Stadium against The Arse on Saturday! (Live on the Beeb at '5:30 bells'
The cup that doesn't 'cheer' for certain now!
Posted from 1:21 pm bells' onwards, Sunday 3rd January 2021
Geordie Times predictions: NUFC 33% possession and 4 shots on target! (We never predict score!)
*Goals and major incidents az they happen on mee laptop!
The kick off looms az BIG Ted looks on az he rests on a bottle of Dog!11th minute, Vardy scores for Lestaa but goal iz ruled oot for offside!
18th minute weak Joelinton heeder, 1st effort on target from NUFC
Halfway point of 1st half
45% possession to us!
HT 0-0 44% possession
The ref has touched the baall 3 times which is more than the 2 teams have had shots on target!
1 solitary (weak) heeder from Joelinton!
"Oh no!--Have yoo seen the dodgy channel I'm watchin'! ☠(Alledgedly!)☠*goal: 54th minute to Lestaa Maddison shot!😳
Halfway point of 2nd half
41% possession NEE shots on target this period!
goal: 72nd minute 0-2 T'mans
Carroll shot (centre)GOAL! Super sub Andy Carroll fires home at the Gallowgate End there iz still hope!🙏
Wilson shot on target should have scored late on!
FT lost 1-2 2 efforts on target, 43% possession
Doon to 15th in table!
That's 5 "er! sorry" 6! games winless now and Lestaa have now won at SJP 6 (SIX!) times in a row!
Aalso the stats leegue table below doesnt make good readin' at aall for Toon fans or 'Broken Nose Bruce'!