THE TOON V GIRONA ON FRIDAY AND BREST ON SATURDAY*** SELA WEEKEND

 PPosted ‘high noon bells 🔔’ Friday 9th August 2024

SJP FROM HADRIANS TOWER, BUT CAN YOO SPOT THE STRAWBERRY 🍓 BOOZER! 

(See bottom of this article if yoo can’t spot it!)

The Sela Weekend iz aalmost upon us az NUFC play 2 games in 2 days v Spanish 🇪🇸 and French 🇫🇷 opposition at SJP!

Nee doubt that there will be 2 completely different line ups on both days to give aall of wor first team squad some game time! Apart from Tonali of course, who iz still suspended!

Geordie Times match reports and pix will appear here on Sunday and Munday! (Won’t have time to dee Girona game report on Saturday, az I will be off to the 2nd game v Brest at ‘high noon bells 🔔 on Saturday afternooon!)

“Watch this space az per usual on Sunday!”

This IZ The Geordie Times!—-wot did yoo expect!?🤔

OSULA SIGNS FOR NUFC!

 Posted ‘2:12pm bells 🔔’ Thorzday 8th August 2024 by

News reaches The Geordie Times that William Osula haz been signed from Sheff U for a reported £10 million quid!

The 21 year old Danish born striker iz a welcome addition to wor squad!

I am sure that you’ll agree that he looks much better in those brilliant 🤩 black n white stripes, than those horrible🥶 red n white stripes he wore at Sheff U!

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369 1st cloud arena south shields (v u21s)

Ground Number 369 (370 if you include Motspur Park from ootside!)

Date of First Visit: 4th August 2024

1st Cloud Arena, South Shields

South Shields  1

Newcastle United U21s  1 (Johnny Emerson)

Friendly fixture

Attendance: 1,424 (quite a few Toon fans)

“HEY! HEY! YOU! YOU!—-GET OFFA MY CLOUD!”

NUFC have played here before 32 years ago, but we wernt there coz it clashed with a 1st team game in Doncaster!

And so it came to pass that The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers got this groond off wor bucket list at last! That’s ‘Alex of St George’, (Middleton St George), Dave from Gossy’ ( Gosforth) and not so little old me!

Wot a smashin' little groond with cover on aall 4 sides---better than many leegue groonds we have been tee, includin Luton last season in The Premyaa Leegue! (Soooth Sheeeldz are in The National Leegue North this season—2 steps below The Futbaall Leegue!)

The Rolling Stones “Get offa my Cloud” 1960s hit record woz blasting ower the loudspeakers— very appropriate az the stadium name suggests!

"DRINK!--DRINK--- WHEREVER YOO MAY BE!"

It didnt start off well az Soooth Sheeeldz were aall ower us in the forst half of the forst half and the breakthrough came in the 9th minute when Paul Beckett's cross foond Ewan McGowen inside the penalty area and he made ne misstayk with a fine shot to put Sheeeldz 1-0 up!

They pounded wor goal with goalie Aiden Harris havin a blinder and anothaa goal looked odds on az wor youngins could hardly get across the half way line----but this iz futbaall and anything can happen az an error from a Sheeelz defender in the 32nd minute, let in Johnny Emerson, who raced doon the field  with just the goalie to beat and he expertly shot home to level things in front of the Toon faithful behind that goal!

1-1 at half when Soooth Sheeldz shud have been well clear!

WE played better in the 2nd half but again Sheeeldz couldnt get past Harris and the game ended aall square!

The mad-sad groundhoppers who went to Japan wernt there of course, but az we've said in the past, "yih cannit dee them aall!" 

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TAMS BAR

Tams Bar in an industrial estate near the groond 

(for ‘gargels’ pre match!)

*MATCH ‘TICKET’!

    “WE WOZ THERE!”

"NEW GROOND!*** NEW GROOND!"*** SOOOTH SHEEELZ v THE TOON U21s **** FRIENDLY

 Posted '6:00pm bells' Saturday 3rd August 2024

For those of us who couldn't make it to Japan, there's anothaa Toon game tomorrow, much (much!) closer to home, when wor U21s take on Soooth Sheeelz in a friendly at their 1st Cloud Arena groond (kick off 1:00pm bells')

Take the Metro from The Toon and get off at BEDE Metro station----The groond iz just alang the road from there!

YOKOHAMA F MARINOS 2 THE TOON 0 *** FULL TIME *** JAPAN TOUR GAME 2

 Posted 'high noon bells' Saturday 3rd August 2024

It woz 31degrees when the game kicked off!---The latest score from Tokyo az NUFC struggle to break doon the Yokohama defence! In the 34th minute Elber sidefoots the baall home to put the Japs in front----HT 1-0 to them!

51st minute: 2-0 dooon. Amano shot!🥶

Quite simply we couldnt get oot of the blocks and the heat didnt help eethaa!

FT Yokohama 2. The Toon 0 !🙈

Attendance: 38,201 in the Tokyo International Stadium (67,500 capacity) (A few thoosand supportin The Toon!)

Pix from The Geordie Times paparazzi reporters, ‘Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer’ and ‘Paul the Englishman’—Cheers! 📸 

IN TOTAL NUFC USED 21 OF THE ABOVE PLAYERS!
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TOMMY CASSIDY RIP!

 Posted '1:30pm bells' 🔔 Friday 2nd August 2024

Very sad news reaches us that former Toon player and Northern Ireland International Tommy Cassidy haz passed away!

Tommy played 239 times for us for 10 years in the 1970s to 1980 and played in both the FA Cup final in 1974 and the Leegue Cup final in 1976 at Wembley.

He scored 28 goals in total between 1970 and 1980 and played az a forward and then az a midfielder

I used to have a bit 'crack' with him when he drank in 'The Monkey Bar' in The Toon and once showed him my 'Geordie Times' story of him when he scored the winnin goal at Derby Coonty 52 years ago in 1972

TOMMY (ON THE RIGHT), WITH SOME MATES IN THE MONKEY BAR

(Ground number 023 Baseball Ground, Derby) (see story below!)

Sadly Tommy had dementia and haz died at the age of 73

RIP TOMMY!  Lost but never to be forgotten!

023 the baseball ground derby

(GROUND NUMBER 23)

Date of First Visit: 3rd APRIL 1972
THE BASEBALL GROUND, DERBY

DERBY COUNTY 0
NEWCASTLE UNITED 1 (Tommy Cassidy)

(OLD) DIVISION ONE
ATTENDANCE: 38,119 (3,000 (or so) Toon fans)

♫MUD!----MUD!----'GLORIOUS' MUD!♪


LOOK!----Because it waz that lang ago!--- aa cannit remember just who aa travelled doon with on the train for this one to Derby Station!?, but most of them were in 'steel cappers', crombies and wore their 'braces slack'!

But aa can tell yih this!--- I was NOT! impressed with mee forst ever visit tih the capital of Derbyshire and after a few 'Arthur Scargills' near Derby station (and a couple of confrontation's with the local 'dibble'!) we heeded nearer to 'The Basebaall Groond' for some more 'liquid lubrications!
(AYE!---ah CAN! (of course!) remember havin' a few 'gargels' , but who with iz any f*****s guess!???)

Row upon row of Victorian back to back terraced hooses with thick smoke billowin' from their chimney's and blackened soot covered factories, lined the route tih the groond .
(Ne central heatin' in them days!---just coal fires tih keep yih waam!)
("Ahh!---memories!?")


ANYWAY!---wih made for the nearest 'hootch-hostelry' tih the groond, which was appropriately caalled 'The Footballer' and in keepin' with the rest of the place it was a dingy rundoon hovel!, with threadbare carpets, ripped waallpaper and a (very!) smelly 'toolshed'---BUT!---it did sorve---BEER!

The lop-sided pub sign sported a Derby player kickin' a baall and az 'skinheeds' were aall the rage back then, a 'good kickin' was aalso on the cards for the Derby fans on their way tih the match from the notorious 'Leazes Boot Boys' who had wrecked Sheffield just two days orlier on April Fools Day! (see ground 22 archive report)

And predictably that's exactly what happened to some unfortunate Coonty fans who were ambushed in a dead end alley next to a huge foundry beside the groond and they ended up with 'Doc Marten boot' prints as unwelcome 'souvenirs' 'imbedded' in various parts of their anatomies!

The Toon fans were housed behind the goal in front of a double decker stand with the rest of the groond consistin' of a forther two double deckers a single deck main stand to wor reet and the groond was completely hemmed in by the factories and hooses. The double deckers towered ower the pitch blockin' oot any sunlight and this defiantly effected the playin' area

"SPOT THE MUD!"

The kindest thing that can be said aboot the Basebaall
Groonds pitch in the '70s', is tih say that it resembled a 'glorified' ploughed field caked in thick mud!.
(Which doesn't say much for the rest of the place!---does it??)

This was a great advantage tih 'one' Brian Clough, who was Derby's manager at the time, and in the aad telly footage, yih can see that there was'nt a blade of grass on the pitch!.

'Cloughies' men were gannin for the Championship and had'nt been beaten at home for ower a year, so The Toon had an uphill task tih say the least!.
It had been 'chuckin' it doon' owerneet and the notorious pitch was like a quagmire as the teams ran oot.

The forst half ended goal-less, with the Derby forwards poundin' the Newcastle defence, but Willie McFaul and Bobby Moncur in particular, had blinders in the 'mud bath', tih keep oot the 'Ram Raiders'.

The deadlock was broken by The Toon in the 70th minute, when a Frank Clark free kick (ultimately) foond 'Supermac', who's raspin' shot was punched oot by County's keeper, but anly as far as Tommy Cassidy, and he calmly stroked the baall through the thick mud, and it rolled ever so slowly (and agonisingly!) ower the goal line and into the net for the one and anly goal of the game.

He was then mobbed by virtually the full team and it was quite a sight as 'they' rolled aboot and wallowed in the wet mud (as we 'rolled' aboot and 'wallowed' on the terraces!)
At the end they came off to a standin' ovation from the Toon contingent, but yi could hardly recognise them as they were aall caked 'up ti the eyebaalls' in 'yee naa wot'! ---'black 'n' white minstrel style'! (remember them!?)

21 year old Cassidy said later that it was!: "The greatest moment of my life!"
(A 'glorious mud' goal!---if ever there was one!)
Personally, aa would'nt gan 'that far'!, but it was still one of the great moments of that season.
(Except!---for the Derby fans---that is!)

 Now!---how does that aad 'hippo' song gan again?

♫Mud!---Mud!---Glorious Mud!♪
♪There's nothing quite like it, for cooling the blood!♫
♫T'was a 'class'? goal from 'CASS', from a 'SUPERMAC' 'pass'?♪

♪And there let them wallow, in glorious mud!♫♫



After the match, 'Cloughie' said that he thought the Newcastle defence were brilliant, but bragged that Derby were still top of the League, and that's where they would stay!.
He was reet!---as they won the League in a nail bitin' end tih the season, by one point, from Leeds, Liverpool and Man. City.
(The Toon finished eleventh)


Footnote:
(The Basebaall Groond is no more of course, and was bulldozed in 1997 to make way for---THIS!▼▼▼) (another 'mud-bath'!)

©Fink™ (the mad-sad gr☺unh☺pper!)

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OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF TERM & PHRASE
(for the benefit of 'Geordie readers'!)


wallow=stagger/stumble/flounder/lurch/welter/reel!


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'A to Z' GEORDIE GLOSSARY OF TERMS & PHRASES
(for the benefit of 'non Geordie' readers!) (in Alfie-betikal order!)


aa/ah=I
Arthur Scargills=gargles=beers
aye=yes
anly=only
aad=old
aall=all
aalso=also
aboot=about
braces slack=a skinhead custom
baall=ball
crombies= skinhead jackets
cannit=cannot
caalled=called
coonty=county
chuckin' it doon=raing very heavily
dibble=police force/men
forst=first
foond=found
groond=ground
gargles=beers
gan(in')=go(ing)
heeded=headed
hooch hostelry=public house
Leazes boot boys=Newcastle United hooligans
Liquid lubrications=beers
lang=long
mee=my
ne=no
oot=out
ower=over
owerneet=overnight
reet=right
rundoon=run down
sorve=serve
steel cappers=steel capped Dr Marten boots
Toon fans=Newcastle United fans
The Toon=Newcastle United FC
tih=to
toolshed=netty=gents toilet
the rams=Derby's nickname
up tih the eyebaalls=covered from head to footwaallpaper=wallpaper
wih=we
waam=warm
yi(h)=you
yee naa wot=you know what

URAWA RED DIAMONDS 1 THE TOON 4 *** JAPAN TOUR GAME 1

 Posted '1:00pm bells' Thorzday 1st August 2024

NUFCs Japan tour started off well with a 4-1 win in Tokyo!

The goal sequences were az follows:

3rd minute: Harvey Barnes races through and gives a great baall to Isak, who weaves through The Diamonds defence to hit a fine shot to put us 1-0 up

23rd minute: The Diamonds equalise through Nita, who back heels the baall past Pope in The Toon goal

30th minute: Livramento gives a penalty away, but Pope makes an excellent save!

45th minute: NUFC regain the lead through a shot from Murphy, from a Willock pass

47th minute: Murphy doubles hiz tally just after the restart, from a Jamie Miley through baall (1-3 to us)

58th minute: A Lewis Hall deflected shot wrang foots their goalie to put us 4-1 up----final score!

AN ESTIMATED 2,000 TOON FANS WERE PRESENT, WHITH QUITE A FEW TRAVELLIN FROM THE UK—THE STADIUM CAPACITY IZ 67,000 SO THERE WERE QUITE A FEW EMPTY SEATS!

The pix were sent to us by intrepid Geordie Times paparazzi reporters Paul The Englishman and Blondie Alan The Morris Dancer!----Cheers lads!—more to follow later!

LUV AT FORST SIGHT!💗

URAWA RED DIAMONDS v THE TOON *** JAPAN TOUR GAME 1

 Posted 'high noon bells' Wedinzday 31st July 2024

Picture of stadium entrance taken by 'Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer'

Az we type NUFC are in action in Japan and are currently drawin' 1-1 with The Red Diamonds of Urawa!   Isak got wor goal in the 2nd minute!  They equalised with a soft goal ----Murphy puts NUFC back in front bang on half time!

Will be updated later this evenin'

Az per usual  "Watch this space!"  

Updated: ‘5:25pm bells 🔔’

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We won 4-1 with 2 goals from Jacob Murphy and 1 each from Alexander the Great (Isak) and Lewis Hall!

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Full match report and pix from Blondie Alan sometime tomorrow!

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URAWA RED DIAMONDS v THE TOON *** JAPAN TOUR GAME 1 *** '11:30am BELLS' GMT (Geordie Meeen Time!) WEDINZDAY

 Posted 'high noon bells' Tuezday 30th July 2024

SALTIMA STADIUM, TOKYO, JAPAN, HOME OF URAWA RED DIAMONDS

We play wor forst owerseas friendly in Tokyo tomorrow neet when we play The Red Diamonds of Urawa!

2 'Geordie Times' paparazzi reporters will send match pix (and Japanese boozer pix!) back to us (hopefully?)

More info when we get it!

Az per usual "Watch this space!"

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