THE TOON V MOAN U *** LEEGUE CUP FINAL WEMBLEY ON SUNDAY!

 Posted from '1:35pm🔔 bells', onwards, Friday 24th February 2023

Whey! The big day iz aalmost upon us az the norves start jangling 2 day before the game!

Hord reports from mee mate 'Davy the Silver Fox' that the trains to King's Cross this morning are rammed!

We are travellin doon tomorrow in mee 9 seater tranny van and are stoppin in Aylesbury, then catchin a direct train from there to Wembley which takes aboot an hour!

There iz 'nee way' that we would be gannin anywhere near KX coz it will be manic on Saturday and Sunday, with and estimated 30,000 travellin with nee tickets! Add on the 33,000 who dee have one and yoo can see where 'we are comin from'!

Some of the media have aalready got us beat and on Wedinzday az aa listened to the Livaapoool v Real Madrid game on mee truck radio the Commentator said: "Alisson ( the Livaapoool goalie) has made a horrendous misstayk for Real's 2nd goal! ---I wonder if Loris Karius iz watching!" (Wor 4th choice goalie who will play in the final az Pope of course iz suspended after gettin sent off v Livaapoool last week!)  The question on everybodys lips iz!----Why the hell would he mention that???

Aye! Moan U are odds on to beat us az we are the underdogs yet again for a cup final! 

But The Toon are made of sterner stuff theeeze days and hopefully Karius haz a blinder and the rest torn up az well!

There are nee injuries to report and we are 'up for it' for sure!

Block 126, row 36, here we come!

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE IN THESE 2 WEMBLEY PROGS!

 

BEFORE NICK POPE GOT SUSPENDED

AFTER NICK POPE GOT SUSPENDED!

OTHAA NEWS!

Shud be ashamed of himsel--A former Toon player az well!😬

Footnote: Moan U manager Ten Haag iz moaninin already, sayin that we are annoying holding the game up and wastin time and asks the officials to crack doon on any time wastin by us!

And the game hazzint even kicked off yet!--- Now yoo know why we caall them 'Moan U'!

Match and boozer report on Munday! -- let's hope it's a good one!🙏

NUFC TELLY TIMES FOR APRIL RELEASED!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Thorzday 23rd February 2023

*FIVE oot of wor 7 fixtures for April have been changed for the telly  and are az follows:

*Both the Moan U and Sporz game cud be changed if they are still in the FA Cup or Europe!

*PS: There will be a Wembley preview in The Geordie Times tomorrow----Az per usual: "Watch this space!"

THE TOON 0 THE LIVERBIRDS 2 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2022-2023

 Posted 'high noon bells' Sunday 19th February 2023

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BOBBY ROBSON'S 90th BORTHDAY THIS WEEK AND 'WOR FLAGS' HAD A SPECIAL FLAG MADE FOR HIM!

"A CATCH 22 SITUATION!"

Tributes were made to former player Christian Atsu who tragically died in the Turkey earthquake--and to Bobby Robson with a giant flag in The East Stand----

It aall started off so well az NUFC attacked The Leazes End in the forst half with Miggy Almiron missin a great chance orly on!

Totally against the run of play Livaapoool took the lead through Nunez from their forst attack, when he ran through to beat Nick Pope in The Toon goal after 10 minutes!--VAR looked for a possible offside, but after a couple of minutes the goal woz given!

7 mins later and it woz 0-2 to wor visitors when a Mo Salah through baall foond Gakpo for fired home!---VAR again looked for a possible offside but sadly the goal stood!

And then total disaster in the 22nd minute when Nick Pope caught the baall ootside the box az Salah tried to get it off him!

He woz duly sent off and the forst thing the old guy who sits beside mee said woz, "He'll miss the cup final next week!"

Martin Dubravka took Pope's place in goal, but HE iz cup tied coz he played in a Leegue Cup tie while on loan at final opponents MAN U!  Yi couldnt make it up!----A 'catch 22' situation for certain! (sic!)

With Karl Darlow on loan at Hull, this meeenz that Eddie Howe haz the limited choice of resorve keepers Mark Gillespie and Loris Karius to play at Wembley next week, in from of 90,000, when they are used to playin in front of a few hundred at resorve games, or non at aall in practice games! 

With just 10 men we fought hard and had quite a few chances to pull a goal back, but chances went 'abeggin'

Wor best chance came in the 82nd minute az we attacked The Gallowgate goal when subs Anthony Gordon and Callum Wilson combined, but somehow Wilson's shot woz put wide by The Liverbirds goalie's trailin' leg!

The defeat meenz that wor lang unbeaten run iz ower---havin last lost to Livaapoool way back in August!----Indeed Livaapoool have inflicted wor last 3 defeats, gannin back to last April!  Just 3 defeats since then in the Premyaa Leegue---and aall of them to The Mickey Mousers!

*Attendance: 52,271 (3,200 Mickey Mousers)

  

THE TOON V THE LIVERBIRDS*** TEATIME SATURDAY ("TELL MEE MAA, MEE MAA, AA WON'T BE HOME FOR TEA!")(AGAIN!)

 Posted 'high noon 🔔 bells' Saturday 18th February 2023

SJP FROM GALLOWGATE.    NOW THE CLUB HAVE BOUGHT THE LAND BACK, WE WILL HAVE THIS STUNNIN' VIEW OF THE GROOND FOREVER MORE!                                 (ie: Nee ugly tower blocks in the way to spoil the view!)

"WE WANT REVENGE!"😬

The Liverbirds are the anly team to beat NUFC this season!

A disallowed 'offside' goal from Isak when  he woz 'onside' and a ridiculous 8 mins stoppage time winner from them cost us the game way back in August! (Klopp had wined on to the officials to add extra time---and they did!)

They were aalso the last team to beat us at home way back (again) to last April!---"WE WANT REVENGE!"😬

A win would put us 12 points clear of them in the race for a Champions Leegue place next season, but defeat would close the gap to just 6 points!--A '6 pointer' for certain!

Again we will be withoot Bruno who iz serving the last of a 3 game suspension, but Callum Wilson looks set to start!

Aalso available are Miggy Almiron and St. Max who have resumed trainin after nigglin injuries!

A full Geordie Times match report will appear here on Sunday!--Az per usual  "Watch this space!"

PS  A 'WOR FLAGS' TRIBUTE TO BOBBY ROBSON WILL BE UNFURLED BEFORE THE MATCH, CELEBRATIN' WOT WUD BE HIZ 90TH BORTHDAY!

FOOTNOTE: Some very sad and terrible news!----Former Toon player Christian Atsu haz been foond dead underneath the rubble in the city of Hatay, followin the Turkey earthquake!

RIP CHRISTIAN! 🕇

There will be a minutes silence before the game which kicks off at '5:30 bells'

And here iz one of Christian's last ever tweets!

"HE'S ONE OF OUR OWN!"

EXETER CITY GET 12 TICKETS FOR LEEGUE CUP FINAL!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 15th February 2023

The team who play at another St. James' Park have been allocated 12 tickets for the Leegue Cup final!  Wot possible interest iz there from their fans when NUFC and MUFC fans are desperate for tickets!

Both clubs have received just under 33,000 tickets each, which iz not enough of course---even for some who are season ticket holders!

It's not just Exeter of course, az the other 90 Leegue clubs get exactly the same allocation az well!

Thats 12 X 90 = 1,080 tickets to non participatin' clubs, plus another 24,000 or so to Wembley Stadium bond holders, corporate guests, etc! 

Nee doubt that those 25,000 tickets will be gannin for £1,000 plus to Toon fans who were unsuccessful in the ballot and desperate to gan!

IT'S SCANDALOUS!

A WEMBLEY MESSAGE FROM 'WOR FLAGS'

 Posted 'high noon 🔔 bells' Valentines Day 💝 Tuezday 14th February 2023

BOURNEMOOOTH 1 THE TOON 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2022--2023

 Posted on the way back from Bournemoooth on mee mobile telling bone from '10:30am 🔔 bells' onwards Sunday 12th February 2023 (BRIEF REPORT!)

"BEFORE THE LORD MAYORS SHOW!"

A thoroughly depressing performance from NUFC who played in wor white and green change kit!

From the word 'go' there were misplaced passes from wor lot and we just couldnt get oot of the blocks az we attacked the far goal to wor right!. 

The home side had scored just ONE solitary goal since the World Cup restart, while we had the best defensive record in the Leegue!

So guess wot?---Bournemoooth opened the scorin(of course!) in the 30th minute when a corner woz floated in and ended up at the feet of Senesi who fired home from close range!

We huffed and puffed and just az it looked az though we would gan in one-nil doon at the break, up stepped Miggy Almiron to hit a sweet shot across the box from a deflected Longstaff shot, to levels things, bang on half time!

The 2nd half woz just az bad and The Toon were lucky not to concede near the end, when a back heal from a Bournemoooth forward woz cleared off the line by Trippier to save the day!  

Another game undefeated, 17 now!, but we were p*ss poor to be honest!

The Liverbirds are next at SJP and then the 'Big one' at Wembley in a fortneets time in the Leegue Cup final v Moan U!

Attendance: 10,419 (1,300 Toon fans)

PS: Toon fans paid tribute to former player Cristian Atsu, who iz unaccounted for in the Turkey earthquake 

THE PUB CRAWL WOZ OWER 2 DAYS AZ WE STOPPED IN CASTLE DONINGTON HALF WAY TO BOURNEMOOOTH TO SPLIT THE LANG JORNEY UP ON FRIDAY NEET 

AND BOURNEMOOOTH ON SATURDAY!

NINE DRINKIN DENS IN TWO DAYS

RUNNIN TOTAL FOR THE SEASON NOW 110!

BOURNEMOOOTH V THE TOON *** TEATIME TOMORROW! ("TELL MEE MAA, MEE MAA, AA WON'T BE HOME FOR TEA!")

 Posted '3:00pm🔔 bells' Friday 10th February 2023

*We make wor langest away trip of the season tomorrow at '5:30 bells' (live on SKY) when we face 'Steady Eddie's old team Bournemoooth at their place! (720 miles, roond trip!)

We are travellin by 'jam jar' coz the trains are manic ower the weekend with replacement busses etc and lang jorney times! (Plus we didnt naa if there would be any train strikes!)

Of course everybodys mind iz on Wembley in just ower 2 weeks time in the Leegue Cup final against Moan U--and in total contrast to that, there will be just 1,300 diehard Toon fans present in Bournemoooth's tiny Vitality Stadium groond, compared to near 33,000 at Wembley, plus an estimated 30,000 travellin with nee tickets of course!!!

Bruno iz still suspended but £40million signin' Anthony 'Flash' Gordon iz set to start, az iz record signin' Isak, who missed wor last game through a concussion heed injury!

NUFC are unbeaten in wor last 7 away games, while Bournemoooth havvint won since the restart after the World Cup break, scorin just ONE goal in the process and concedin' 11!---and are in the 2nd bottom relegation place!

Moan Us failure to beat Leeedz in midweek meeenz that IF we win, we gan back above them into 3rd place on goal difference!

A Geordie Times match (and booze!) report will appear here sometime on Munday, coz, like aa say, we are travellin back by 'jam jar' on Sunday and tryin to dee a match report on mee 'telling bone'  in the back seat will be ny on impossible!

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

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"IT'S GOOD NEWS WEEK!"

 Posted '12:46pm bells' Wedinzday 8th February 2023

"IZ THAT THE TYNE BRIDGE?---LIKE?"

Aa got me Wembley ticket on Munday and more good news for me iz that mee 3 grandsons managed to get Wembley tickets today!

They are ower the moon!

*More good news reaches 'The Geordie Times' that NUFC have bought back the land behind 'The Gallowgate End', which meeenz we can expand the stadium at this end and make it a 'mirror image' of 'The Leazes End', with plans for a 'fan zone' az well!---This really IZ good news indeed! Not sure wot the capacity will be, but it will be aroond aboot 60,000 when completed!

The East Stand shud then be knocked doon and rebuilt az its an eyesore compared to the rest of the stadium!

 

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