USA GEORDIES ON THE SUMMER SERIES TOUR!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Tuezday 25th July 2023

THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING,        NEW YORK, USA

*FILIDELFEEAA <(Geordie Spellin'!), USA, MUNDAY 

NUFC 3 VILLA 3    Lincoln Financial Field

"Who's the ugly guy wearin' the hat!?"

*SPECIAL THANX TO 'PAUL THE INGLISHMAN' FOR THE PIX!

THE TOON 3 THE HAZBEENZ AND VILLIANS 3 *** USA SUMMER SERIES

 Posted 'high noon bells' Munday 24th July 2023

NUFC drew wor forst game of the USA tour 3-3 with Villa after bein 2 goals doon after 11 minutes, when defensive errors let in Watkins and Buendia to give them the lead in Fillidelfeeaa <(Geordie spellin')

The fightback came through Anderson who cooly finished in the 28th minute and then Isak scored deep into forst half stoppage time with a fine shot! HT 2-2

Villa retook the lead in the 48th minute through Buendia again, but we fought back when a Gordon shot rebounded off Villa's keeper to Wilson, who hit the baall sweetly into the back of the net!

In total both sides used 21 players includin new signin' Harvey Barnes who came on in the 70th minute!

FT 3-3

Attendance: 40,230 (includin a few Toon fans who flew from the UK and thoosands of American Geordies!)

Next up iz Chelsea in the orly hours of Thorzday!

PS: Special mention for former Toon goalie Shaka Hislop, who collapsed in California while deenin a TV interview yesterday!

"Get well soon mate!" 

"A BARNESTORMIN' SIGNIN'!

 Posted '10:30pm bells' Sunday 23rd July 2023

*Harvey will wear the number 15 shirt and a fee reported to be £38 million haz been mentioned for the 25 year old left winger!

"Welcome to The Toon mate!"

NUFC USA TOUR TELLY TIMES!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Sunday 23rd July 2023

*Above are the telly times and channels that yoo can watch NUFC in the USA in the orly hours of the mornin'!  3 games are to be played against Premyaa  Leegue opposition in the shape of Villa, Chelsea and Brightin on Munday mornin, Thorzday mornin and Saturday mornin!-----Take plenty of 'keep awake pills' by the telly!

'The Geordie Times' haz its own reporter there by the name of 'Paul the Inglishman', who will send us pix of the games and bars visited!

Az per usual "Watch this space for the scores!"

PS: Yesterday wor U21s lost 2-0 against Carlisle's forst team at Gatesheed Stadium!

DUNSTON 1 V GATESHEED 1*** MATCH ABANDONED *** HEARSE ON PITCH!!!!

 Posted 1:24pm bells' Saturday 22nd July 2023

Although aa wasnt there, a bizzare incident took place at Dunston's groond last neet when a HEARSE woz driven onto the pitch alang with a car at half time, which churned up the pitch and the game had to be abandoned! 

The hearse woz left in the middle of the pitch az the getaway cars mashed through some advertising boards to get oot of the groond!

Bizzare iz not the word! We've seen matches abandoned for waterlogged, and frozen pitches and thick fog and floodlight failures and injured players, but NEVER for a hearse on the pitch!

Dunston statement:

' The New York Post in the USA haz even reported it!

THE TEDDY BEARS 1 THE TOON 2 ***TESTIMONIAL

 Posted '10:00am bells' (onwards) Wedinzday 19th July 2023 on the train back from Scotland----Pub pix updated on Thorzday

"THE TEDDY BEARS PICNIC!"

Strikes from Miggy Almiron in the 16th minute and a Harrison Ashby heeder in the 87th minute sealed the victory at a packed Ibrox Park for Gers lang servin goalie Allan McGregor's testimonial!

16th minute: Elliot Anderson and new boy Tonali played a one-two and put in Amiron who fired home at The Copland Road End (the far stand from us)

NUFC were well on top and shud have been at least '2 up' at the break HT 1-0 to NUFC

64th minute: Lammers equalised for Rangers when he took advantage of a misstayk by Toon goalie Karl Darlow, whos clearance went straight to him  1-1

87th minute: Just when it looked az though the game would end aall square, up popped Isak who lobbed the baall to Harrison Ashby who headed the baall ower Gers goalie Butland and it seemed to gan in slow motion az it hit the back of the net in front of the 8,000 travellin faithful, who celebrated wildly! 🠟

Finally!---Darlow made up for hiz orlier misstayk when he pulled off an excellent save from Lowry to conform the well desorved victory!

FT: Won 2-1

Aa can feel a new song comin' on!---Aaltogether now!

"Oh az I woz walkin don the Barrack Road aa came upon 2 strangers!"

"And they said to mee, we're off to see, Newcasil beat the Rangers!"

"So aa travelled up to Ibrox Park, with mee Toon Army banner and a crate of Dog!"

"We had some fun, we won 2-1, The Geordies beat the Rangers!"

Attendance: 51,000 + (8,000 Toon fans)

"WE WOZ THERE!"

Footnote: Rangers are nicknamed 'The Teddy Bears'🐻

(Hence the heedline!)

PUB CRAWL PIX   8 visited in Edinburgh, Motherwell and Glasgow before and after the match!  Runnin total 12 

THE TEDDY BEARS v THE TOON *** ALLAN McGREGOR TESTIMONAL**** TOONEET

 Posted 2:00am bells' Tuezday 18th July 2023

McFaul saves a penalty at Ibrox Park in 1969----Aa woz behind that goal to witness it!

(A 0-0 draw)

This mornin we are heedin to bonny Scotland by train from 'The Central' (station) where we will play Rangers at Ibrox Park in a testimonial game for lang servin Gers goalie Allan McGregor at '7:45 bells'!

Aall 8,000 away tickets were snapped up az soon az they were available to season ticket holders with enough loyalty points!

We expect the debut of £50 million signin Tonali and 50,000 are expected to watch on from the stands!

It's 54 years since aa went to Ibrox for the Fairs Cup semi final and me and 2 mates took they day off school and hitchhiked to Glasgow in 1969-----We beleeve that we were the forst Toon fans to hitchhike to a European away game!

A match report of THAT game iz below this article---mee 10th groond watchin The Toon aged 14! (And 1st away European game!)

A match report from tooneets game will follow----eventually!

Az per usual "Watch this space!" 

Ground number 010 Ibrox Park

010 ibrox park, rangers

 (GROUND NUMBER 10)

Dateline: 14th MAY 1969

IBROX PARK, GLASGOW

RANGERS 0  NEWCASTLE UNITED 0

INTER CITIES FAIRS CUP, SEMI FINAL, FIRST LEG

ATTENDANCE 75,580

"THERE'S NO HOPE FOR YOU, LAD!"

Yet another 'forst' for me. The forst time a'd ever been 'abroad'? tih watch Newcastle.

O.K.!, O.K.!, Scotland is hardly what yih can caall abroad!, but---to a school kid like me, it might as well have been Outer Mongolia!, as far as ah was concerned!.

Ah can remember gannin tih school the day before the game (Tuesday) and showin' mee match ticket tih mee envious school mates. The teacher saw what was gannin on, and telt iz tih give him a look at the ticket.

"What's it for?", he asked, with a puzzled look on his face.

(Obviously NOT a futbaall fan!)

"It's for the big match in Glasgow tomorrow sir, between Rangers and Newcastle", ah said, as though he SHOULD have known aboot it!?. (Did'nt EVERYBODY know?---ah thought!)

"But what about school?!", he said, in an outraged voice!.

"F*** school!, a'm gannin tih the match!!", ah replied in a 'defiant' voice!.

As soon as ah said it, ah thought, OH, HO!, a'm in for it nuw, swearin' at the teacher!.

But his reaction amazed iz. He just gave me one of those, 'THERE'S NO HOPE FOR YOU, LAD!', looks---shook his heed!---shrugged his shoulders!!---and waalked away!!!.

Ah could'nt understand his reaction!?---Ah mean---what's ONE DAY off school, tih see one of the greatest games in Newcastle's history!??.

Three of us were gannin tih the match, meesel, a lad caalled 'Ginger' and another lad who's name ah can't remember nuw.

Wih could'nt afford the coach fare, so wih decided tih hitch hike tih Glasgow instead. Ah can remember gannin yhem and tellin' mee dad of mee plans.

"Faatha", ah said, "A'm hitchin' it tih Rangers tih see Newcastle!".

Mee dad, who was readin' the 'Ronnie Gill', just glanced up at iz, and said, "Aalreet Alan, (mee real name) aal see yer when ah see yer!", and went back to his paper.

(He knew that even if he'd said ah could'nt gan, ah would'iv went anyway!)

                                        

Wih made an early start the next day, and heeded for the West Road (in Newcastle) tih start hithin' a lift. There were loads of busses headin' for Scotland, with banners and scarfs hangin' from the windows.

Ah can remember one bus in particular, with loads of scarfs tied together, snakin' oot of the skylight of the bus, with a flag tied tih the end, which was nearly trailin' on the road behind the bus!.

After a while, wih got a lift an' we were on wor way!.

                               

Chapter Two:

"READY FOR WHAT?"

Several lifts later we arrived on the eastern ootskirts of Glasgow and decided tih waalk the rest of the way tih Ibrox. Wih foolishly asked a 'Wino' with greasy matted hair, who 'stunk the high heavens'!, how tih get tih the groond.

This was NOT! a wise move, as he was swiggin' a bottle of 'Meths' at the time!.

Ah said tih him, "Excuse me, could yih tell wih how tih get to Ibrox Park pleeze?".

The 'Wino', whos' 'dress sense' included a 'Rudolf the Reindeer' knitted jumper, (in MAY?) which sported several 'tab burn holes'.  A pair of shiny 'piss stained strides'!, (which were 'half mast'!) and looked az though they had'nt been washed for seventeen years!. PLUS! a very 'snazzy' pair of skeets that could 'taalk tih yih themselves'!, az the soles were hangin' off!

He could hardly stand up (or speak!) and he just 'eye-balled' us, an' in a very broad (and very slurred!) Glaswiegen accent, telt wih tih:

"F*** OFF YAA ENGLISH BASTARDS!"

Welcome tih Glasgow!, ah thought!.

Wih decided not tih pursue this line of questionin', and left him in his inebriated state!, mumblin' sommik aboot 'Bannockburn'?, and carried on waalkin'.

Nuw Glasgow, as wih foond oot, is a very big place indeed!, and it took ages tih get within sight of Ibrox. When wih finally got there, afta an hours 'trek', wih noticed that aall the Rangers fans, young and old, were wearin' their blue 'n' white club scarfs.

We did'nt have any colours on, and wih stuck oot like 'a sore thumb', and got some 'dodgy looks!'. Ah noticed the club crest on the main stand, which was a 'Lion Rampant', with the word, 'READY', underneath. Ready for what?, ah thought!.

'Ginger' did'nt have a ticket, but he bought one ootside the turnstiles at face value. Needless tih say, he was ower the moon!.

One Rangers fan had a huge orange banner held up by sticks, featurin' a 'gadgie' with a 'Led Zeppelin haircut', dressed like a muskerteer and ridin' a white horse?, with 'WILLIAM OF ORANGE' '1690' written underneath?? 

Wih did'nt have a clue warrit meant----BUT! it looked brill! (Explaination: For aall yeez 'young pups'---'Led Zeppelin' were the forst ever 'heavy' music band from the '60's)

On enterin' the groond, ah was amazed at the size of Ibrox. It was a huge bowl, and was certainly the biggest groond that a'd EVER! been tee. (Er!---this was mee TENTH groond aall-told!)

THE NUFC FANS WERE IN THE HUGE OPEN END

TO THE RIGHT

The capacity in 1969 was ower 118,000!, and with an attendance of 75,000 plus that neet, it meant that Ibrox was still 43,000 below capacity!. 15,000 Toon fans had made the journey across the border and were in good voice.

When the players came oot onto the pitch, the roar was deafenin' from both sets of fans. We were standin' near the back of the open end, and because the players were so far away, they looked like 'matchstick models'!.

Chapter Three:

"SAVE ALL YOUR 'KISSES' FOR ME!"

There was nee segregation, and the Toon and 'Gers' fans were mixed together.

Predictably, as the home team and with the vast majority of the crowd on their side, Rangers did most of the attackin', aalthough the Toon did have a few early chances, but neither team could break the deadlock.

Then, after aboot half an hour, disaster struck, when Newcastle goalie, Willie McFaul gave a penalty away. Andy Penman took it, and hit the shot tih McFauls right. Luckily, he dived the reet way and saved it, tih send the Toon fans into raptures!.

McFAUL PENALTY SAVE

 Wi'd escaped this time!, and Rangers had several chances after this, but could'nt put the baall away. This was thanks mainly to Newcastle Centre Half, John McNamee, who, was built like 'Frankensteins' monster!, and had been kickin' 'seven lumps of shite' oot of Rangers Centre Forward, one, Colin Stein!. (would you believe?)

An irate Rangers fan standin' a few yards away, was givin' him loads of 'verbal', and kept caallin' him a "DIRTY ENGLISH BASTARD!".

Ah politely pointed oot tih him, that McNamee was infact SCOTTISH!, alang with several other members of wor team, like Bobby Moncur, Jim Scott and Jackie Sinclair!.

Wor Scottish 'friend' who waz half mortal, WAS’NT! impressed!, and gave iz one of those, 'LADDIE, DEE YAA FANCY A 'GLASGOW KISS'!--stares!. Ah took the hint!, and did'nt bother him after that!.

There were loads of light blue invalid cars parked aroond the wide oval track which suroonded the pitch. (Not 'blue' coz they were Rangers fans, but because THAT was the standard colour!)

Unlike nuw, where disabled drivers have ordinary cars converted so they can drive them, back in the '60's AALL disabled drivers drove the same distinctive tiny one seaters 'death-traps'!. 

With aboot ten minutes tih gan they started leavin' by the one exit at the far end. Before lang there was a tailback of aboot twenty or so tryin' tih get oot!

This iz the forst and anly time that av ever seen a 'traffic jam' INSIDE! a futbaall stadium!

The Toon hung on for a NIL-NIL draa---AND!---wih managed tih cadge a lift straight back tih the Toon az well!.

Was it worth playin' the 'wag' from school for???----"CAUSE IT WAS"!

Wih went yhem very happy that neet---ah can tell yih!. And it was'nt lang before wih crashed oot on the back seat. Three very exausted and totally knacked school kids!---"ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz!!!!!" 

"ROLL ON THE SECOND LEG!"

                                          

Footnote:

The Toon won the return match at St. James' 2-0 with goals from Jimmy Scott and Jackie Sinclair.

(Riotin' Rangers fans had tried tih get the match abandoned by invadin' the pitch, and the game was held up for twenty minutes!)

Newcastle then went on tih lift the 'Fairs Cup' by beatin' Ujpest Dozsa from Hungary 6-2 on aggregate, in the two legged final.

Fink (the mad-sad groundhopper!) 

THE HEEDBANGERS 2 THE TOON 3 *** PRE SEASON FRIENLY

 Posted 'high noon bells' Sunday 16th July 2023

"GATESHEED THUNDER!"

Before the game aa heeded for Gatesheed toon centre for a few gargels before decidin to walk to stadium 20 minutes away!

Bad mistayk by me az aa got halfway there when the heavens opened and aa got drenched to the skin!----Mee light blue jeans were soon dark blue and mee waaterproof jacket ISN'T!

Aa woz like a drowned rat when aa got to the entrance---and of course mee digi ticket on mee phone didn't work, but the gadgie let me in az aa told him aa woz a season ticket holder! (Wot aa didnt tell him woz that aa woz an NUFC season ticket holder and not a Gatesheed one!)

Anyway! once inside aa heeded for the Old Goat's Bar under the main stand and a can of John Smith's and a thin plastic cup at an extorshanist <(Geordie Times spellin') £4 woz purchased az aa hung mee jacket on the back of a chair to try and dry it oot!

Soon it woz time to heed for the main stand and the kick off time of '12:30 bells' and aa foond a seat reet at the back near the corner!

The main stand woz supposed to be for Heed fans only, but at least 50% were of The Toon persuasion!---ie: Nee segregation needed! 

Toon in wor green away kit

Within 20 seconds of the start Matt Richie hit a shot narrowly wide to loud gasps from the large crowd of ower  7,000 (at least 5,500 Toon fans)

However it woz The Heed who took the lead in the 12th minute when a defensive mix up let in Dinanga and he cooly finished past Darlow in The Toon goal!

Anothaa mix up bang on half time and we were 2-0 doon when Wearne fired home!

HT 2-0 to The Heedbangers!

And then loud thunder claps and lightenin' enveloped the groond and The Toon fans got a good drenchin in the open seats and they soon scattered to the back to try and find some shelter from the storm!

(Gatesheed used to have a Rugby Leegue team caalled Gatesheed Thunder!---Now we naa why!!!)

The torrential rain woz that heavy that it looked az though the game could be abandoned az the pitch soon became waaterlogged!

Luckily aa woz in the main stand which had a roof----the anly part of the groond with one!

Thankfully the thunder and lightening moved away towards north Tyneside and the rain abated az the 2nd half started!

NUFC pulled one back in the 50th minute when Elliot Anderson fired in from close range!

Before lang we had drawn level when Saint Max dribbled roond the box and scored an excellent goal to loud cheers from The Toon fans who were in every part of the groond

Jay-Turner Cooke finished it off when Lewis Miley sent ower a pin point pass and he volleyed home to complete the comeback in the 81st minute!

FT The Heedbanger 2 The Toon 3 

SJP can just be made oot in the distance from The Main Stand at Gatesheed az the storm clouds gather!

Pub crawl pix    4 drinkin dens visited in Gatesheed

Inside THE NAGS