"IT'S A GOAL!---IT'S A GOAL!---IT'S A GOAL!"

 Posted 'just after 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 15th Novembaa 2023

The disputed goal against 'The Arse' haz been confirmed az a genuine goal, when an unprecedented 3 VAR decisions went in wor favour, az video and audio iz released between Stuart Atwell the ref and the VAR team at Stockley Park! (Are yoo watchin Arteta???---Who said the goal woz an absolute disgrace!)

⚽️IT'S A GOAL!

⚽️IT'S A GOAL!

⚽️IT'S A GOAL!

Bournemoooth 2. The Toon 0. —-Premyaa Leegue 2023-2024

 Posted from 11:19am  bells  onwards 12th Novembaa 2023 on the train back!

Pleeze expect many misstayz az am deein this brief report on a smaall mobile telling bone!

Toon in unlucky green again (we played in green in Dortmund last Tuesday!) We have played in eethaa the green top or white top with green trim 12 times and have won just ONCE!

“More south coast sorrow!”

Let’s say straight away that this woz definitely wor worst performance of the season az wor severely depleted squad through injuries and suspensions struggled to contain a Bournemoooth team who were in the relegation zone at the kick off!

Add Almiron to the list az well!

From the start the home side went on the attack and had several chances to take the lead!

17 year old Lewis Miley made his first start and iz the youngest ever Toon player to start a Premyaa Leegue game!  (Av mentioned this before---Ah went to school with Lewis's granddad when we were 5 years old----"Lewis Miley---He's one of our own!")

We somehow managed to survive til half time az everyone looked shattered with Miggy Almiron forced off due to a hamstring injury! (More injuries to add to the very long list!—includin suspensions we make it a whole team of 11 unavailable!) (Er! Sorry! TWELVE including ‘Miggy’!)

So it woz nee wonder that in the 2nd half that Bournemooth opened the scoring’ when Willock made a misstayk and Solanke fired home in the 60thminute!

The home side doubled their lead in the 73rd minute through Solanke again and with virtually nee sign of a Toon goal it ended 2-0 to them!  

Man of the match iz undoubtably 'The Pope' in the Toon goal who made many great saves to keep the score doon! This woz wor forst Premyaa Leegue defeat since August when we played badly again v Brighton and lost 3-1–South coast sorrow for certain!

At the end the team came ower to applaud the travellin fans and one arsehole slagged Trippier off and he woz non too pleased!  (We had just left before that, but seen the altercation on 'Twitter' later on!)

This tosser should lose aall his loyalty points az he definatly ISN’T a loyal fan  FULL STOP!⚫️

Lewis Miley---"He's one of our own!"

Attendance: 11,201 (1,300 Toon fans! Although there were some empty seats?)

A bugler plays the last post before the game

Pub crawl pix ----anly 3 this time! Runnin total 55

BREWHOUSE & KITCHEN, POKESDOWN, BOURNEMOOOTH

THE WAY OUTBACK, POKESDOWN, BOURNEMOOOTH

WATERLOO TAP, WATERLOO, LONDON

BOURNEMOOOTH v THE TOON *** SATURDAY TEATIME!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Saturday 11th Novembaa 2023 (Armistice Day)

"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM!"

The games have been comin up thick and fast again and 'az we speak' we are on wor travels yet again, heedin to Bournemoooth on the south coast---The langest ever distance for a Premyaa Leegue/top flight game! (750 miles roond trip)  (We've played at Plymoooth of course, which iz an 820 mile roond trip, but that woz in The Championship/old 2nd Division, az they have never been in the top flight!) 

We have so many injuries and suspensions that we divvint have a clue wot team Steady Eddie will put oot v Bournemoooth?

Below iz a match report from wor U19s game v Borussiaaa Dortmund U19s on Tuezday afternooon at Dortmund's Brakel Trainin groond!----After that it woz off to the main stadium for wor Champions Leegue game at the main stadium! (Match report on that below!)

We are hearin that we are gettin a reduced allocation of just 2,000 tickets for wor Champions Leegue game at PSG in Paris at the end of the month!

NUFC have protested to UEFA, az we want wor full 5% allocation which iz 2,450 (Capacity 49,000)

The Geordie Times will of course let yoo know if we are successful in gettin the extra 450 tickets, which we are entitled to!?

A brief match report on the Bournemoooth game will appear here on the train back via King's Cross in London sometime on Sunday, but bare in mind that aa will be deein it on mee smaall mobile 'telling bone'---so many misstayks are likely! (To be updated on mee laptop when aa get yem!)

Az per usual "Watch this space!"

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!