Wednesday, 2 August 2023

WHY CHANGE SOMETHING THAT WORKS PERFECTLY OK?

 Posted just before ‘high noon bells’ Wedinzday 2nd August 2023



News that the new digital ticket system has encoonted problems even before it’s started, reaches The Geordie Times!

Corporate hospitality fans have received the above e mail!—- But NOT the riff-raff like us!---"YET!"

And suppose yoo don’t have a printer? Like little old me???

The old system , where yoo had a plastic credit card size season ticket or a paper ticket to enter the stadium worked perfectly OK-so why change it for something that is prone to signal or electrical failure!?

We await with bated breath to see if wor phone tickets work this weekend for the Sela Cup and next week against Villa in wor first premyaa Leegue game!???


PS: Just hord that there will be CASH TORNSTILES in operation!!!!

Tuesday, 1 August 2023

TAXI FOR MAXI!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Tuezday 1st August 2023



News that we aall expect that Allan Saint Maximin haz been transfered to Saudi club Al Ahil for a reported £23million haz finally happened!

He loves The Toon and in a farewell message on social media, he said that he iz heartbroken to leave!💔

We will miss hiz mazy dribbles, acrobatics (and crazy hair duwz!) and we wish him aall the very best with hiz new Saudi club (and very fat pay check!)

Maxi’s brilliant message to Toon fans!




Monday, 31 July 2023

FAN-PARK TO OPEN BY NOVEMBER

 Posted 5:20pm bells 🔔 Munday 31st July 2023


NUFC have said that a fan park will open behind The Gallowgate End by the end of November in conjunction with ‘STACK’ pub chain and will show live NUFC games home and away on a big screen in the complex! Great news for those who cannot get into games because of the massive demand!

More to follow when we find oot!

As per usual “Watch this space!”

Saturday, 29 July 2023

THE TOON 2 BRIGHTIN 1 *** USA SUMMER SERIES

 Posted just after 'high noon bells' onwards Saturday 29th July 2023



2 goals from Elliot Anderson late on, sealed this victory in The Red Bull Arena in wot can anly be described az a 'faall asleep game'!

This line up woz completleee different to the line up in Atlanta 2 days before az 'Steady Eddie' made full use of the squad he had taken across the 'pond'! (See the different line ups below)

The forst half woz aaaful and coz of the '12:30am bells' kick off aa woz faallin asleep in a relations hoose az aa watched on the big screen after a heavy drinkin session in The Toon! HT 0-0

"ZZZZzzzzzz!"

The 2nd half started off with Brighton attackin wor goal on the right of the screen and within 4 minutes when a Nick Pope save foond Welbeck and from 2 yards oot he had a simple tap in that your great granny could have scored!  1-0 to 'them'

Just when it looked az though we would lose the game az time ran oot up stepped Elliot Anderson in the 88th minute who woz put through by Jacob Murphy and he hammered the baall home from 6 yards oot to level the tie! (This 'sort of' woke me up!)

A 3rd draw in a row in The Summer Series looked on the cards, but Anderson won the game for us deep into stoppage time az he fired home a low shot into the net to send the 3 of us watchin on into wild celebrations!---So wild that aa nearly knocked ower the bottle of Dog aa woz drinkin onto the carpet!

There woz hardy time to restart the game and 10 seconds later the ref blew for full time! 2-1 to 'us'

The result meeenz that we have a chance to win the tournament, dependin on othaa results on Sunday!---Az per usual "Watch this space!" to find oot if we did!

Attendance: 26,150

COMPARE THE LINE UPS FROM THE LAST 2 GAMES 
TOP v BRIGHTIN *** BOTTOM v CHELSEE


Again, special thanx to 'Paul the Inglishman' for boozer and stadium pix!🤪👍🍺
Safe flight(s) back lads n lasses!✈🛩


























Friday, 28 July 2023

THE TOON v BRIGHTIN *** USA SUMMER SERIES

 Posted '1:00pm bells' Friday 28th July 2023





Tooneet in America (or here in the orly hours of Saturday) NUFC play Brightin in the last of the 'USA Summer Series' games!

We've drawn the previous 2 against Villa and Chelsee, so we are hopin for a '3rd time lucky' win to roond off the series!

This time the game iz in the 25,000 capacity Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey (near New York) with the temperature set to hit the 35 degrees mark when the game kicks off at '12:30am bells GMT (Geordie Meeen Time!) The game iz a complete selloot!

Again we are relyin on 'Paul the Inglishman' to send us some photos like he haz done for the previous 2 games! (Cheers Paul!)

Az per usual "Watch this space!" for a match report and pix, sometime tomorrow!



Thursday, 27 July 2023

THE TOON 1 THE CHELSEEE PENSIONERS 1 *** USA SUMMER SERIES

 Posted just after 'high noon bells' (onwards!) Thorzday 27th July 2023

ALMIRON'S GOAL (ARROWED)

The second draw in a row for NUFC in the 'Summer Series', this time in Atlanta's unreal stadium with a closed roof and air conditionin'!

"THE STADIUM HAZ LANDED!"----"IZ THERE ANYBODY THERE!?"

We went behind in the 12th minute against the run of play when Chelseee'z Jackson scored the opener!

Miggy Almiron equalised deep into forst half stoppage time when Anthony Gordon fed the baall to him with a fantastic pass and he made nee misstayk with hiz shot!---Miggy actually played here 4 years ago and he got a great reception from the 71,000 selloot crowd!

There woz nee more scorin in the second period and this woz a good workoot for the team!  We used 16 players will wor opponents used 19












Special thanx to 'Paul the Inglishman for photos from the game etc! 🤪👍





Wednesday, 26 July 2023

THE TOON v THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS **** USA SUMMER SERIES *** '1:15am BELLS' THORZDAY

 Posted '1:00pm bells Wedinzday 26th July 2023

MERCEDES BENZ STADIUM, ATLANTA

In the orly hours of Thorzday mornin we take on Chelsea in Atlanta in the 2nd of the 3 series games in the USA

Hopefully 'Paul the Inglishman will be able to send The Geordie Times some pix of the game----We await with baited breath!

Az per usual "Watch this space!"




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