This website iz dedecated to the Newcastle United groundhoppers who follow the fortunes of the team aroond the world (and beyond!) The ground totals include competitive and friendly forst team, resorve team, junior team and Newcastle United X1 games that 'the mad-sad groundhopper' has attended, aall for Newcastle United games only, in the last SEVEN decades*** cheers!***'Fink' (the mad-sad groundhopper!)***last count 379 (380 inc Motspur Park outside)
Posted '1:04pm bells' Tuezday 23rd January 2024
How many of the 51 clubs who have played in The Premyaa Leegue since its formation in 1992 have NEVER had a crowd of under 30,000? (Except for games during Covid when crowds wernt allowed or restricted to 10,000 or less)
The answer will be reveeeeled in The Geordie Times at 'high noon bells' on Wedinzday 24th January!
Watch this space for some amazin facts!
Posted '12:45pm bells' Friday 19th January 2024
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News that wor U21s Premyaa Leegue Cup tie at Chorley v Fleetwood tooneet haz been postponed because of adverse weathaa conditions, reeely iz 'great news' for The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers!
We have seen The Toon play at Chorley 'many moons ago' and the news that the tie haz been moved to Highbury (The one in Lancashire NOT norf London) the home of Fleetwood Toon, iz joyous news indeed!----A groond that we have never visited before!
The game will take place the day after we play Villa away----and the plan iz to get off the train at Durham on the way back from Bormingham the next mornin and cadge a lift from there off 'Biffa the Beer' to Fleetwood, where the game starts at '7:00 bells' on Wedinzday 31st January!
Fleetwood iz a thrivin fishin port and their team runs oot to the brilliant theme tune of the 1970s TV series 'Captain Pugwash'!
Posted '1:30pm bells' Wedinzday 17th January 2024
Work on the NUFC fanzone behind The Gallowgate End iz finally underway! The club hope to have 'The Stack' open before the end of the season, where big screens and bars will be erected on 2 levels usin shippin containers!
The most important thing az far az we are concerned iz that the iconic view of SJP from Gallowgate will not be obstructed by tall office blocks az woz originally planned when The Fat Controller (Ashley) sold the land to buildin developers!
Thankfully NUFC bought the land back and The Stack will soon be another feature on the approaches to the groond!
*Of course--in the future, The Gallowgate End could be extended ower Strawberry Place az a mirror image of The Leazes End!
We 'Fink' it would be a great idea to incorporate a hotel into the back of structure to increase the revenue of NUFC
Posted 'high noon bells' Sunday 14th January 2024
"HALFWAY HOOSE!"
If you were a neutral watchin this on the telly, you'd be ower the moon with this see-saw game!
The sequence of events were az follows:
2nd minute: Isak's cross finds Sean Longstaff and he forces the baall into the Leazes net to open the scorin for NUFC--BUT the linesman flagged for offside and the goal woz quickly (for a change) ruled oot!
Man City goalie Edison woz injured in the collision with Longstaff and woz subsequently replaced by Ortega
26th minute: A Kyle Walker cross iz back heeled into the Gallowgate net by Silva to put wor visitors 0-1 up!
35th minute: We fought back and just 9 minutes later when Bruno put Isak through and he hit a curlin shot into the corner of the goal to level the scores!
37th minute: We were still celebratin the goal and hardy had time to get wor breath back when Anthony Gordon hit a wonderful curlin shot from the other side of the pitch which sailed into the net to send the crowd crazy! 2-1 up at the break!
74th minute: De Bruyne then came on for The Blue Moonies and he hadn't been on the pitch for more than 5 minutes, when he hit a screamer into the corner of the net with Dubravka in the Toon goal unable to reach the shot! 2-2
91st minute: Then injury time heartbreak yet again for the black n whites when, just az it woz annoonced that there would be 3 minutes stoppage time, De Bruyne hit a cross to find Oscar Bobb who from close in toe poked the baall into the back of the net! 2-3 final score!
It woz certainly a bitter pill to swallow, az we slipped to halfway doon the Premyaa Leegue table to 10th position!
Attendance: 52,198 (3,200 Blue Moonies, who sang defiently "That's why we're champions!" az WE exited the groond in a shattered state!
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Posted just after 'high noon bells' Saturday 13th January 2024
*News that Joelinton will be oot for at least 6 weeks with a thigh injury he picked up in wor memorable 3-0 win ower the SMBs last Saturday, iz yet anothaa devastatin blow to hit us! Aalready oot are Wilson, Barnes, Willock, Murphy, Anderson, The Pope and Targett! Plus Tonali of course who iz suspended til August!----Thats NINE players oot aaltogethaa!
Man City meeenwhile are withoot Stones and Harlaand who are (thankfully) unfit!
It will be a very tough game against probably the best team in the world and to be porfectleee honest, I for one would be happy with a draw today!
We of course beat them orlier on this season 1-0 in the Leegue Cup when Alexander the Great (Isak) scored the anly goal of the game to inflict The Blue Moonies forst defeat of the season!---They will definatly be oot for revenge come the '5:30 bells' kick off (Live on TNT)
*A full Geordie Times match report will appear here sometime on Sunday----And then we have a 2 week 'rest' before playin Fulim in the FA Cup 4th roond on January 27th in west London!
Posted’5:30pm 🔔s Friday 12th January 2024
GEORDIE TIMES EXCLUUUSIVE!
Haven’t yoo heard?
sund’lind are changin the name of The Black Cat Club to The Black n White Cat Club!
Posted ‘2:33pm 🔔s Friday 12th January 2024
☠️16 oot of the 17 away NUFC leegue and cup games below have been moved for live telly! Anly Lootin (arrowed) haz stayed at the traditional 3:00 bells' Saturday kick off!
☠️Wor game at Fulim in the FA Cup haz unexpectidly been moved to a '7:00 pm bells' kick off and az the last train back to Tyneside on that day iz 9:00pm bells’ it meeenz that we are forced to have yet another owerneet stay in London!
Oot of aall the away games we have been tee this season includin The Champions Leegue where 2 neet stays were required for the 3 games, we have(so far)stopped in a hotel a staggering 16 times!
Fulhim, Villa and The Arse will take this total to 19 and of course there are boond to be more az the telly schedules are released for the final few games of the season!
At an average of £50 per neet per person, that meeenz so far we have spent £800 each on hotel accommodation!(At least!)
PS: We are NOT multi millionaires eethaa!
Posted '1:00pm bells' Wedinzday 10th January 2024
NUFC and safc have been playin in their own colours in derby games for one hundred and thorty years----Sometimes the away team have played in their change strip, but 9 times oot of 10 'we' play in black n white strips and 'they' play in red n white stripes!
But now---aall of a sudden colour blindnes campaigners are outraged that they could tell the difference in the derby thrashin on Saturday and bemoan the FA's response!----Even though NUFC played in white shorts and socks and sund'lind played in black shorts and red socks!----Can they not tell the difference between black and white?
It's gettin crazy with these woke campainers demandin' more and more change in society!
Wot next we ask---demand that we both play in braile strips to help the blind????
Posted '7:00pm bells 🔔 Munday 9th January 2024
The3 missin groonds are non leegue Maidstone United, Bristol Rovers and Newport Coonty!
The anly one that NUFC have played on which we havvint been tee iz Newport, in the Leegue Cup!
We wirnt allowed to gan coz the game woz played behind closed doors 🚪 durin the Covid crisis!
A home tie against anybody would be preferable, but if it’s away "Can we have Newport pleeeze to complete to set!"—-We have been to every other groond including Europe for a competitive game in the last 42 years!
NUFC are baall number 15, while Newport are baall number 31 and the draw iz between ‘7:45 bells 🔔 and 8:15 bells 🔔 before the Wigan v Moan U game on ITV 1
ITS FULIM AWAY—YET ANOTHAA GAME IN LONDON!🥶
Posted from 'high noon bells', onwards, Sunday 7th January 2024
"THE STADIUM OF DELIGHT!"
An emphatic victory ower a piss poor mackem side made the hassle of 'bubble bus travel' worth it!
From the word go we were on the front foot az we attacked the south stand end where a pathetic red and gold er! sorry silver tin foil display woz unvieled by the home fans!
NUFC battered them and had many chances to score before the inevitable happened! An own goal from Ballard in the 35th minute!
Joelinton and Bruno had combined and the cross for Isak woz intecepted by Ballard who put the baall into hiz own net, to the delight of the 6,000 Toon fans in the opposite North Stand!
It woz still 1-0 to us at half time---when it could easily have been 2 or 3!---The SMBs hardly venturin' into wor half!
It took just 30 seconds of the restart to double wor lead when Ekwah woz dispossessed by Miggy Almiron and he past the baall to an unmarked Alexander Isak, who had the simple task of slammin the baall into the net in front of the black n white faithful!
Many more chances went a beggin' until the final minute of the 90 when Anthony Gordon raced into the box and woz man handled by Ballard!----The ref pointed straight to the penalty spot!
Alexander the Great (Isak) took it and sent the mackem goalie the wrang way to plant the baall into the corner of the net to send the Toon fans meNtal and the SMBs off to the exits!
The celebrations continued at the final whistle with the Toon team gettin a photo in front of the fans wavin their black n white scarfs!
The jorney back woz crap (just like the mackems team) and we didnt get back to The Toon til '5 bells'! (The match had finished at '2:35 bells') An 11 mile jorney!
(For the jorney doon to 'the dark place' see article below)
Attendance: Just 44,814 (It holds 48,500) 6,000 very happy Toon fans indeed!
Geordie Times fact file:
This woz mee 53rd competitive Tyne/wear derby in a row home and away from 1967 to date (This includes the 2-1 NUFC win in 1996-1997 when away fans were barred from Joker Park and SJP!)
*Bow doon to your superiors!
Naa your place! 🙇🙇🙇
