364 brakel training ground, dortmund (v dortmund u19s)

 Ground number 364

Date of First Visit: 7th November 2023

Brakel Training Ground, Dortmund, Germany

Borussia Dortmund U19s  2

Newcastle United U19s  2 (Hethernan, Huntley)

UEFA Youth League

Attendance: 942 (A smatterin' of Toon fans)

THE REF GIVES A “HEIL HITLER” NAZI SALUTE! ONE OF MANY DURIN THE MATCH! (I THOUGH IT WOZ BANNED IN JAWMANY?)

"A DOUBLE HEEDER IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!"

We decided to dee this U19s game on the other side of Dortmund to the main stadium to tick off another groond in the never endin list!

To get there we travelled from wor base in Dusseldorf by train, had a few pints in Dormund centre and heeded for the game by undergroond, tram and bus!----It took quite a while to get there but thankfully we just made the 2 bells kick off! (The main game at the Signal Park in The Champions Leegue didn't kick of til '6:45 bells' local time, so we had time to dee this one az well!)

It didnt start off well az Dortmund youngins laid seige to wor goal!

The inevitable happened in the 10th minute when Campbell opened the scorin for the home side and just 20 minutes later they doubled their lead!---It really looked az though we would take a real hammerin' az Aiden Harris in The Toon goal woz kept very busy!

Dortmund hit the post in the dyin embers of the 1st half, but thankfully the baall rebounded to safety! HT 2-0 to them!

The 2nd half produced a bit more fight from the green clad visitors and thoughts of an unlikely comeback came in the 78th minute when Irish youngster Cathal Heffernan heeded home to half the deficit!

Then just 4 minutes before full time up stepped James Huntley to heed another into the net, for the 2nd goal and claim a point! (A double heeder to draw the game at 2-2)

A crumpled team sheet! Wot did yoo expect?              This IZ The Geordie Times!

It woz then off to the main game---the 2nd part of the double heeder of games for 'The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers'! (The forst time we had seen 2 Toon games on the same day on new groonds!        364 and 365 off the list for me!) 

Fink (the mad-sad groundhopper!) 

365 signal iduna park, dortmund, germany

Ground number 365 (117th consecutive European competition game home and away)

Date of First visit: 7th November 2023

Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany

Borussia Dortmund 2

Newcastle United 0

Champions League Group Stage 'F'

Attendance: 81,365 (3,900 Toon fans plus 1,000 plus more in the home sections

“Once yiv seen one waall,  yiv seen them aall!”

View from row 23 seat 23 in the upper tier.  Toon in green strip

*”Injury crisis engulfs The Toon!”

With 7 players ruled oot because of injuries and 1 suspended it woz never gannin to be eezy—Add in the fact that we didn’t play very well and a 2-0 defeat wozzint a surprise!

Ower 10,000 had travelled to Jawmany and with an allocation of just 3,900 many Toon fans bought tickets for the home sections on the black market for 150 euros upwards!

The Yellow Wall at Dortmund behind the home goal holds 35,000 and iz huge and they did a canny flag display az The Champions Leegue tune rang oot before the game!! (Not az good az ‘Wor Flags’ of course!)

Aalso they played ‘You’ll never walk alone' ower the tannoy to very loud booos from The Toon end!

From the word ‘go’ we looked knackered and Dortmund looked the better side!

After some lucky deflections the baall fell to Fullrug in the 26th minute and he made nee misstayk,beatin Pope in The Toon goal in front of The Yellow Wall!(Fullrug had certainly pulled the rug from under wor feet!)(sic!)

HT 1-0 to them

*We played much better in the 2nd period and Joelinton missed 2 glorious chances, heedin wide both times!

And did we pay the price for those missedmisses!  In the 79th minute Brandt woz put clean though and placed his shot beyond The Pope in The Toon goal!

Almiron aalso had a great chance but fired straight at their keeper!

The players came ower to applaud the travelling’ faithful at the end!

And we have to say that the Dortmund fans were great with nee animosity---Indeed Toon fans were in the home sections WITH their colours on! 

Attendance: 81,365  3,900 Toon fans in the away end plus aboot 1,000 in the home sections! (At least!)

Dortmund fans protest against the European Super Leegue (Not aboot the NUFC takeover az reported by the BBC) The 3 main culprits below!

From left to right: Juventus owner, UEFA president and PSG owner

A 2-0 defeat and with ACcMilan beatin PSG 2-1 it woz more bad news az it sent us to the bottom of Group F (it iz indeed the group of death!)

We have 2 more chances to try and get 2 the top 2 and qualify for the knockout stage—/ it won’t be eezy

*footnote: beforehand we had watched wor U19s draw 2-2 v Dortmund U19s at their Braken trainin groond, so that’s 2 new groonds to add to the list for The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers!

Numbers 364 and 365🤪👍

We’ve done aall the world’s waalls now!

1 The Berlin waall (when NUFC played Chemnister)

2,The Byker waall! (of course!)

3 The Great waall of China-town (The city waalls near SJP in Bath Lane and behind Stowell Street)

4 The Borussiaaa Dortmund Yellow waall 

5 And of course Hadrians waall 

And speaking of that, have yoo ever wondered where The Sycamore Gap Tree ended up after it woz chopped doon?

Whey maan!—-We foond it in wor hotel foyer in Düsseldorf before wor game in Dortmund! 🌳 🤪👍

More on aall this much later  plus a match and booze report on both games! (It’s nearly 3 bells 🔔 now and time for boardin for the 3 30 bells flight ✈️ back to Toon airport!)

In total 9 places that sold booze were visited on wor way to and back from Dortmund. Toon airport, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Dusseldorf airport

Runnin total 52

SPORTSBAR DÜSSELDORF AIRPORT GERMANY

BORUSSIAAA DORTMUND v THE TOON *** CHAMPIONS LEEGUE *** TUEZDAY NEET!

 Posted from '6:17pm bells' local time, Munday 6th Novembaa 2023 in Dusseldorf, Jawmaneee!

Düsseldorf 

*The flight from Toon airport to Dusseldorf took less than 2 hours and we are stayin in a hotel close to the airport

We are ‘on the hoy’ here tooneet, az there are loads of boozers in the city centre!🍺🍺🍺🍺

And then onward to Dortmund via the snail 🐌 🚂 train tomorrow, (coz it’s free if yoo have a match ticket!) where we are gannin to groundhop to watch wor U19s play Dortmund U19s at their Brakel trainin groond, in the UEFA Youth Leegue, before the main event at the 81,000 capacity Signal Iduna  Park Stadium later on! ((2 new groonds within a few hours iz unprecedented for The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers!)🤪👍

Keep watchin this space for boozer photos Thats IF the internet here lets The Geordie Times send the photos?

Dusseldorf (we stopped here for a few liquid lubrications🤪👍🍺🍺🍺🍺)

Of course those of yoo who arnt here will be glued to the telly back home and around the globe to watch the match!

Dusseldorf 

There won’t be match reports til we get back on Wedinzday, az tryin to dee match reports on a smaall mobile telling 📱 bone 🍖 iz not eeezy—much eezier to dee it on a laptop 💻! When we get back!

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THE TOON 1 THE ARSE 0 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2023-2024

 Posted from 'high noon bells' Sunday 5th Novembaa 2023 onwards

Buglers plays ‘The Last Post’ before kick off!

*"FINE LINES AND 3 VAR’s!"

Havin lost 8 of wor last 10 home games v The Arse, winnin just 2 of them, it woz always gannin to be a tough game!

And so it proved az we battled on in the forst half! Wilson had a great chance at The Leazes End, but Sky’s his shot from close in!

*And then the flashpoint when Arsenal’s Martinez (correction! Havertz went in 2 footed on Longstaff near the Toon dugout! ( Thanx to Russ for spotting my dillllibrit mistayk yet again!)

A certain red card—but NO! Atwell the ref just showed a yellow to the fury of the Toon players—3of which got yellows because of the protests! The injustice of it aall!!!

*Bruno then had a runnin battle with a couple of Arsenal players and woz lucky not to get a red himself after usin his elbow a couple of times!

A bad tempered 1st half for certain!

Controversy happened in the 64th minute, when Anthony Gordon fired a loose baall into the net from very close range!

VAR got involved in THREE potential incidents to disallow the goal! Baall oot of play, possible offside and a foul by Joelinton!

After an agonising 5 minute wait the goal woz eventually given to the delight of the Toon players and fans and the fury from The Arse players and their manager Arteta!

Toon fans celebrate Gordon’s goal!

We held on with 8 minutes of stoppage time added with loud whistles from the crowd—- and the relief when the full time whistle went! The first time that The Arse had failed to score in 17 games this season AND their first defeat!

Toon fans celebrate az the final whistle gans!

“VAR my Lord—-VAR!”🙏🏻

Attendance: 52,194 (3,200 Arseholes)

“Boo! Hooo! It’s not fair!”

 

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!

THE TOON v THE ARSE *** TEATIME TODAY!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Saturday 4th Novembaa 2023

Last season NUFC lost 0-2 to The Arse at SJP ---

Lets hope we can dee much better this time!

It haz certainly been a hectic period for fixtures and just 3 days after wor great Leegue Cup win at Moan U on Wedinzday, we face The Arse at SJP today, in a Premyaa Leegue clash at '5:30 bells' for live telly!

And then next week we fly from Toon airport to Dusseldorf on Munday for wor Champions Leegue game v Dortmund on Tuezday, fly back on Wedinzday afternooon and then prepare for wor langest Premyaa Leegue away trip to Bournemoooth on Saturday, at '5:30 bells', and then homeward bound next Sunday!

We expect a raft of changes from Wedinzday and it will be very interestin to see the startin line up which iz released an hour before kick off!  

Wor home record against them iz shockin, az we have lost 8 oot of the last 10 games---winnin just 2 of them!

A full Geordie Times match report on today's game will appear here on Sunday, but it might be langer to dee the Dortmund report az we are away 3 days for that one!

Az per usual "Watch this space!"

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MOAN U MUPPETS 0 THE TOON 3 *** LEEGUE CUP 4th ROOND

 Posted '3:37pm bells' Thorzday 2nd Novembaa 2023

This iz just 5 mins after Willock’s goal in the 60th minute to put NUFC 3-0 up!

"REVENGE IZ SWEET!"

Toon players and fans celebrate at the end of the match, while the letters in the seats can be read with hardly any Moan U fans left inside ‘The Theatre of Muppets’

For the first time ever, ah woz confident that NUFC could beat Moan U at their place—-but when ah saw the team line up, with just 3 of the players who started at Wolves last Saturday included, ah had 2nd thoughts!—how wrang ah woz!

Dead simple—we started off on the front foot and never took it off the excelorator!

5th minute: Matt 🎯 Targett pulls up with wot looks like a hamstring injury and iz replaced by Almiron (which turns oot to be a blessing in disguise 🥸!) ⬇️

28th minute: Livramento races doon the pitch and sends a pin point pass to Miggy Almiron who holds off a home defender to hit a sweet left foot shot across the goal into the far corner of the net in front of The Stratford End!

36th minute: Joe Willock sends a cross into the box and McGuire heeds oot, straight to 19 year old Lewis Hall, who hits a great left footed shot into the corner of the goal to double wor lead and get his first senior goal for the Toon!

The 2nd period woz the same and on the hour mark Joelinton puts a foot in to win the baall, which falls to Joe Willock—He gans on a run and hits a fantastic shot past in the Milan U goal to send the 7,000 plus Toon fans behind that goal into meltdown!

“3-nil to The Geordie boys!”

It’s at this point that their fans get oot of their seats and (virtually!) stampede towards the exits! (See top picture!)

It seemed unreal!—it woz 10 years since we last won here and just the 2nd time we have won here in 51 years!

A game that will live in wor memories forevermore!

Attendance: 72,484 (7,300 jubilant Toon fans!)

Pegswood Geordies actually! Not Egswood! (Pegswood iz a village in Northumberland)

PS: The draw for the qwaataa final wasn’t kind (again!) and paired us with Chelsea—AWAY!

Spotted in the away section wearin specs. Fairs Cup winning captain Bobby Moncur!⬇️

Footnote:

PUB CRAWL PIX   3 visited runnin total 43 (aalso visited Heaton Park which woz visited v Man City so we cannot include it )

RIP DINZZY

Loyal Toon fan ‘Dinzzy’ (Aiden Brannan) haz passed away!

He travelled home and away to watch us!

This iz very sad news indeed!

DINZZY—lost but not forgotten!