366 Stade Georges-Lefevre (v psg u19s)

 Ground number 366

Date of First Visit: 28th November 2023

Stade Georges-Lefevre Training Ground, Paris, France

Paris Saint Germain U19s 1

Newcastle United U19s 2 (Scott Bailey, Johnny Emerson)

UEFA U19s Youth League

Attendance: 700est (6 or 7 NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers)

The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers are at the PSG Stade Georges Lefevre trainin groond to watch wor U19s game v PSG U19s which kicks off in an hours time! Then we will heed for the main stadium a few miles away to the east side of Paris to watch wor Champions Leegue game which kicks off at ‘8:00 bells’ GMT! (Geordie Meen Time!)

We will send a few photos and a brief match report at half time and when the U19s game iz ower!

So watch this space intentleee!

HT 1-0 up! Shot from inside box by number 71 Scott Bailey!

Number 8 and captain for PSG sent off in 50th minute for 2nd bookable offence!

58 minute  Scott Bailey hits the bar from a tight angle!

87th minute   PSG equalise with a great strike by their number 6🥶

89th minute  Bailey hits the bar again!

90th minute Number 74 Johnny Emerson wins the game for The Toon with a deflected shot from just inside the box!🤪👍⚽️

1st half action above—2nd half action below!

PSG v THE TOON **** TOMORROW NEET! *****

 Posted from '2:08 pm bells' Munday 27th Novembaa 2023 on the way to France ***

“Iz that Blackpool Tower in the distance!?”🤔

*1st port o call in St Pancras station, London, where we get the Eurostar to Parisss!

🍺The Barrel Vaults

2nd port o call at St Pancras!

🍺An old favorite. The Betjamen’s Arms! Then the train to Parisss!

Through passport control!

Made it to Paris! In the bar below near main train station

 Cristal PARIS!

THE TOON 4 CHELSEEE 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2023-2024

 Posted '1:00pm bells' Sunday 26th Novembaa 2023

“WE'RE OWER THE MOON WITH THIS RESULT!”

An unexpected result for certain az we expected a tough game and a draw woz predicted by The Geordie Times for wor injury depleted side, which included THREE goalies on the bench!--How wrang we were!

The sequence of events were az follows:

13th minute: 17 year old Lewis Miley threads a pinpoint baall through to Isak who hits hiz shot past Sanchez in the visitors goal at The Leazes End! (1-0 to us!)

23rd minute: A misstayk by Lascelles led to a free kick on the edge of the box for Chelseee. Sterling took it and gave Pope in The Toon goal nee chance with a shot into the top corner to level things! 

45th minute: Trippier free kick hits the goal frame!

(HT 1-1)

60th minute: Lascelles makes up for hiz orlier error by heedin home unmarked from a Gordon cross! (2-1 to us!)

61st minute: We hadnt stopped celebratin Lascelles goal when Joelinton latched onto a misstayk by a Chelseee defender and fired home to increase wor lead to 3-1!

73rd minute: Chelseee caption James iz sent off for a 2nd bookable offence to reduce wor visitors to 10 men!

Fans celebrated Gordon’s goal!

83rd minute: Gordon completes the scorin with a shot into the corner of the net to send the crowd into raptures! (apart from the 1,000 or so left in the visitors section, az 2,000 had aalready departed for the train to King's Cross!)⬇️

A great performance to set us up nicely for the trip to Paris on Tuezday neet when we play PSG in wor last away game in the group stage of The Champions Leegue!

ATTENDANCE: 52,227 (3,100 very unhappy visitors who sang “We’ve won it all!—You’ve won F??k all!” Before the game!) And we aall hope they had a-miserable 💩 jorney 🚂 back to London!

 🤪👍

T

This game iz dedicated to 3 Toon diehards who have recently passed away!

RIP Dinzzy who drank in The Leazes End Companions Club before the match and Fairza who drank in Rosie’s Bar!

And Ray Gilroy (who we’re never met!)

Lost but not forgotten! 🪦 

The ‘tool-shed’ in Rosie’s

THE TOON v CHELSEEE *** THIS AFTERNOOON!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Saturday 25th Novembaa 2023

HAPPY FANS LEAVE SJP AFTER BEATIN' CHELSEEE 1-0 LAST SEASON!

* This afternooon at '3:00 bells' we take on Chelseee at SJP in a rare non televised game and we havvint got a clue wot side Steady Eddie will be forced to pick, az the forst team injury list iz still in double figures!???

It will be tough for certain az we enter a hectic period with NINE games before Xmas Day in 3 competitions!

At the time of writin this, we will be very happy with a win against a resurgent Chelseee side, on the up! But a draw iz the most likely ootcome!

Then its off to Paris next Tuezday, for wor Champions Leegue game against PSG (We are on the Eurostar from St. Pancras for 'this one'!) and then 7 more games in 21 days, with an unglamorous trip to Luton the last of the 7, just before Xmas!

A full Geordie Times match report on today's game will appear here , sometime tomorrow!---Az per usual!

TOON GET GREEN LIGHT FOR LOAN SIGNINGS

 Posted '6:14pm bells' Wedinzday 22nd Novembaa 2023 

"CAN WE HAVE SOME OF THEEEZE?---PLEEEZE!"

Unexpectidleee, NUFC have been given the green light to sign loan players from Saudi clubs in the January transfor window, after the 20 Premyaa Leegue clubs voted by 12 (to ban loan players) to 8 (to allow it) az the 14 majority needed to ban loan players woz not reached! 

The 8 who voted to keep loan deals are Shefff U, Forist, Maan City, Chelseee, Evaatin, Wulvz, Bornley and of course NUFC!

NUFC INJURY LIST LENGTHENS!

 Posted just after 'high noon bells' Saturday 18th Novembaa 2023

There are an incredible 14 Toon players who are unlikely to play against Chelsea next Saturday through injuries, Ineligibility's and suspensions!----

"BRING ON THE RESORVES AND YOUTH TEAMS, EDDIE!"

1:Schar: Hamstring

2:Isak: Groin

3:Manquillo: Groin

4:Hall: Ineligible for Chelsea game az they are hiz parent club

5:Longstaff: Ankle

6:Almiron: Hamstring

7:Barnes: Foot

8:Wilson: Hamstring

9:Murphy: Shoulder

10:Burn: Back

11:Anderson: Back

12:Targett: Hamstring

13:Botman: Knee

14:Tonali: Suspended

"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!)