This website iz dedecated to the Newcastle United groundhoppers who follow the fortunes of the team aroond the world (and beyond!) The ground totals include competitive and friendly forst team, resorve team, junior team and Newcastle United X1 games that 'the mad-sad groundhopper' has attended, aall for Newcastle United games only, in the last SEVEN decades*** cheers!***'Fink' (the mad-sad groundhopper!)***last count 379 (380 inc Motspur Park outside)
Posted from '12:30pm bells' onwards, Munday 14th Novembaa 2022
Wor U21s play in Bristol today in a Premyaa Leegue Cup tie at their trainin groond in half an hours time and 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' will be represented by 'Glennn from Ashington' who haz travelled there by overneet bus!
Glennn haz sent a team sheet and some photos aalready and he will send us a match update later!
Az per usual: "Watch this space below!"
Latest: HT Bristol City winnin 3-0!
Latest now 4-0!
FT a 4-0 defeat!🥶
Posted from 'high noon bells' onwards, Remembrance Sunday 2022
A stunnin' 30 yard screamer from Joe Willock sealed the 3 points for The Toon from a Miggy Almiron run, meenz that we have an amazin 30 points from 15 games, which averages oot at 2 points a game!
Just 2 points behind current champions 'The Blue Moonies of Mancland' in 2nd place and 7 behind The Arse who are top of the tree!----Even the most optimistic Toon fan wouldnt have predicted this----not even us at The Geordie Times, who said at the start of the season that a 7th place finish woz just aboot possible!
Again we played well and fought for every baall with a 'high press', which Chelseee couldn't cope with!
The goal came near the mid-point of the 2nd half at The Gallowgate End, which nearly took the roof of the stadium az the noise woz deafenin'!
NUFC are now unbeaten in 10 Premyaa Leegue games!
Lang may it continue az we reach the World Cup break and a guaranteed Champions Leegue 3rd place for Xmas Day! (We were rock bottom last Xmas!)
If we are still in that 3rd position or just one lower by the January transfor window, then 'Steady Eddie' will have an ace card to persuade quality players to join us in a push for Champions Leegue qualification ---whereaz last January aall he had woz a joker card to persuade players to join a relegation battle!
Happy days indeed for The Toon Army, the players and the owners of wor great club!
Attendance: 52,264 (3,200 p*ssed off Chelseee fans!)
Posted 'high noon bells' Saturday 12th Novembaa 2022
NUFC gan into today's last game before the World Cup break, lookin for a 6th win 'on the spin' to consolidate wor 3rd position in the Premyaa Leegue table til Xmas at least!
We are unbeaten in wor last 10 games in aall competitions, with just one undesorved loss in the last 18 games (Includin the last 2 games from last season!)
Callum Wilson iz sufferin from illness and most likely won't feature and record signin' Isak iz still injured!
Since 'Steady Eddie' took the reins just ower a year ago, The Toon have lost just 3 home games---against Livaapoool, Man City and "er!" CAMBRIDGE in the FA Cup!!! (And just 2 this calendar year!--Livaapoool and Cambridge!) So! Livaaapoool are the anly team to beat us in a Premyaa Leegue game at SJP in 2022! (ONE defeat in 16!)
It's a '5:30 bells' kick off for live telly and it will be a tough game against the P*ss Potter's X1, which of course iz a complete selloot!
A full 'Geordie Times' match report will appear here sometime on Sunday!
Az per usual "Watch this space!"
Posted '5:00pm bells' Friday 11th Novembaa 2022
Posted '1:01pm bells' Friday 11the Novembaa 2022
THE TEAM BEHIND THE TEAM!---"THE FAB 44!"
Posted just after 'high noon bells' onwards, Thorzday 10th November 2022
"NO POPE IN ROME, COZ HE'S SAVIN' PENALTIES AT WOR HOME!"
'The Pope' woz the unlikely hero at 'The Cathedral on the Hill', az he produced a 'miracle' by savin' a hat-trick of penalties at The Leazes End last neet in a game that woz best forgotten and the worst display from an NUFC team this season in front of a record crowd of ower 51,000 for a Leegue Cup home tie!
Az expected there were a raft of changes in the startin line up from wor MAGnificent 4-1 win at Sooothampton last Sunday!
NUFC lost the toss and attacked The Leazes End in a forst half that would send yoo to sleep, it woz that bad!
The 2nd half woz nee different, but from the 65th minute onwards 'Steady Eddie' sent on FIVE cavalrymen, in the shape of Trippier, Botman, Bruno, Willock and Almiron,---but it did nee good az the jinx of the 'cups' hit us once again! (In wor last cup game at SJP we lost to 'The Boat People' of Cambridge last January!)
Chris Wood scores***1-0 to NUFC
The Pope saves Milivjevic penalty***1-0 to NUFC
Kieran Trippier scores*** 2-0 to NUFC
Hughes scores***2-1 to NUFC
Joelinton scores***3-1 to NUFC
Ward scores***3-2 to NUFC
Sven Botman's penalty saved***3-2 to NUFC
The Pope saves Mateta penalty***3-2 to NUFC
Bruno chips baall ower the bar***3-2 to NUFC
The Pope saves Ebiowei Penalty to complete hiz hat-trick of 'miracle' saves to send the players and crowd wild with delight! Final score 3-2 to NUFC
*Beleeeve it or not, this woz the forst time ever that NUFC have won a penalty shootout at SJP! (We had lost the previous 8 (EIGHT!)
Attendance: A record Leegue Cup crowd at SJP of 51,660 (Just 562 diehards from Palliss)
*Record breakin' fact file:
Record crowd for a Leegue Cup tie at SJP!
The forst time ever that NUFC win in a penalty shootout at SJP!
The forst time ever that an NUFC goalie haz saved 3 penalties in a shootout!
*The draw for the 4th roond takes place after the Moan U v Villa game tooneet!----There iz anly ONE team left in the competition where 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers' have never been tee! MK DONS----If we divvint get them away, then hopefully a home tie against a lower leegue side pleeeze!
'The Geordie Times' will publish just who we have drawn at aroond aboot 'midneet bells' tooneet!
Az per usual "Watch this space!" 🠟🠟🠟
It's BOURNEMOOOTH at SJP in week commencing Decembaa the 19th
Posted '2:22pm bells' Wedinzday 9th November 2022
Tooneet at SJP we play Cristil Palliss in the 3rd roond of the Leegue Cup at '7:45 bells'!
After Sundays brilliant 4-1 win at Sooothampton we are unbeaten in 9 games and just one undersorved loss v Livaapool in 15 games in aall competitions!
We expect a raft of changes, az we play Chelsea on Saturday in wor last game before the World Cup break to hopefully consolidate wor 3rd place in The Premyaa Leegue!
The game iz a complete selloot and it will be a record home crowd of 52,000 plus for a Leegue Cup tie, beatin the previous record of just under 50,000 v Sporz in a semi final tie in 1976!
There are nee replays (thank god!) and if the scores are level after 90 minutes, it will gan straight to a penalty shootout!
The draw for the 4th roond will take place on Thorzday neet after the Moan U v Villa game!
A full Geordie Times match report will appear here sometime tomorrow! Az per usual "Watch this space!"
Posted '6:00pm bells' Tuezday 8th November 2022
We were rock bottom of the Premyaa Leegue with nee wins in 14 and were odds on favorites with the bookies to gan doon! If that had happened, then we would be playin 'donkey derby's' against the SMBs this season!
A year on and we are now in 3rd place and joint 3rd favorites at 50/1 to WIN the Premyaa Leegue, with just 1 undeserved defeat v Livaapool in 14 games!
Wor prediction of a 7th place finish at the start of the season woz wildly optimistic to say the least! (How wrang were 'WE'?)
Never in wor wildest dreams did we fink that we had an outside chance of the title!
But az we are just 7 points behind top placed Arsenil, it's a very unlikely scenario, but we can still dream!
'Steady Eddie' haz done miracles with the players, especially Miggy Almiron and Joelinton, who look unrecognizable from a year ago!
"A VERY HAPPY 1ST ANNIVORSARY EDDIE!"
Posted from '1:55pm bells' onwards Munday 7th Novembaa 2022
"JUST CHAMPION!"
Coz of the train strike (which woz caalled off at the last minute!) it woz too late to change wor arrangements to drive to Sooothampton and so it woz a 700 mile plus roond road trip to the south coast in mee 'canny tranny' 9 seater van (Mee alone to Reading and 3 passengers from there!---its a lang story!)
Anyway!---a'd left wor hoose at '1:00pm bells' on Saturday and eventually arrived at wor Sooothampton hotel at '9:30pm bells'!
After hoyin wor bags into wor hotel rooms it woz time to 'hoy' some drink doon wor necks after the exhausting road trip!
Aftter several 'liquid lubrications' we retried to wor rooms for a good neets kip! "ZZZZzzzz!!!"
Next day woz match day and we managed 2 'liquid lubrication locations' before the '2 bells' kick off at St. Mary's.
And wot a day it torned oot to be!----
The game kicked off in brilliant sunshine and pourin rain, then sunshine again az we put Sooothampton 'to the sword'!
The goal sequences were az follows:
35th minute: Miggy Almiron jinks through the home defence to fire home a glorious shot into the corner on the goal, to send the 3,200 Toon fans behind it into raptures!
58th minute: Chris Wood takes advantage of a loose baall to torn and fire home to double wor lead!
62nd minute: A fantastic through baall from Kieron Trippier finds Joe Willock who cooly places a precision shot into the corner of the net!
89th minute: A late consulation goal for 'The Simon Tempar Mob' through Perraud woz witnessed by just 10,000 home fans---the rest had left by then! ('The Simon Templar Mob'---an explanation: The 1960s cult TV series 'The Saint' starred Roger Moore az the detective Simon Templar. Sooothampton's nickname iz of course 'The Saints'---get it???)
91st minute: Bruno completes the rout by hittin a belter from the corner of the box az topless Toon fans showed of their MAGnificent physiques to the world, az they danced in the sun and rain! (It woz that kind of day!)
The win lifts us up to 3rd in the table and meeenz that whatever happens against Chelsea next Saturday, we will still be in a Champions Leegue place by Xmas Day!
"JUST CHAMPION!"
Attendance: 30,402 (3,200 very happy Toon fans!)
*After the match we heeded back to pick mee canny tranny up from the car park next to wor hotel at '4:30 bells'---It took nearly an hour to get oot of Sooothampton and then anothaa hour to get to Reading where aa dropped 'Sarnie Steve' off (he woz workin doon there) then onward to 'Donny' (Doncaster) to drop 'Mal the Inglish Skool Teachaa' off (he lives there!) and then to Durham sorvices to drop 'Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer' off (he lives nearby!) and then finally to drop 'Big Al' off near hiz home near Newcasil racecourse! (NOT the sheet metal workers son!) before finally gettin to mee Tyneside abode at '1:00am bells' on Munday mornin and 707.6 miles after leavin there at '1:00pm bells on Saturday!---totally knackered by this time of course!
Woz it worth it????----"YOO BET IT WOZ!"
5 Liquid Lubrication Locations visited
(All in Sooothampton)
