THE BASIL BRUSH BRIGADE OF LESTAA v THE TOON *** MUNDAY NEET!

 Posted 'high noon bells' Sunday 6th April 2025

The race for the 5 Champions Leegue places iz hottin' up az we heed to relegation threatened Lestaa at their King Power groond!

They are in freefall havin lost their last 7 games in a row, while we have won wor last 3 in a row includin the famous victory at Wembley last month!

After Saturday’s results we find worselz in 7th place, but with 2 games in hand of those aroond us!

IF Man City beat Moan U at The Theatre of Muppets this afternoon and Chelsea beat Brentfaad then we can’t overtake them on Munday!

A win at Lestaa tomorrow will lift us up at least 1 place to 6th, (or 4th if both Chelsea or Man C lose!) so we must be 100% to grab the 3points!

IF we dee win then this will virtually relegate ‘The Basil Brush Brigade’ az they will be 15 points from safety, with just 7 games left!

Aall 3,300 away tickets were snapped up ages ago!  Wonder how many empty seats there will be in the home sections, considering their plight and live telly coverage!?

Anthony Gordon ends hiz 3 game suspension, but Harvey Barnes haz played MAGnificently in hiz place, so ‘Steady Eddie’ haz a very difficult decision to make on that score!

Trippier, Isak and Joelinton are carrying knocks, but hopefully they should be OK come the ‘8:00 🔔s’ kick off!

A full Geordie Times match and booze report will appear here az per usual when we get back on Tuezday afternoon! APU “Watch this space!”

THE TOON 2 THE BRENTFAAD BEEZ KNEEZ 1 *** PREMYAA LEEGUE 2024-2025

 Posted just after 'high noon bells' Thorzday 3rd April 2025

"BEE STING!"

Just ower 2 weeks since wor famous Wembley win, we took on Brentfaad last neet at a rockin SJP!

It certainly wasnt a classic game, but we managed to ground oot a 2-1 win az wor visitors from west London hadnt come here to join the party!

Indeed The Beez of Brentfaad had won 5 succesive away games in a row and were determined to make it 6 in a tight game!

Both sides had chances in the forst half and Harvey Barnes heeded in from a Isak punt inside the box, but he woz offside az VAR conformed!---Isak shud have scored himself, but opted to pass to Barnes!

Not to worry though, az just a minute later and into stoppage time, 'Alexander the Great' made amends when a great Jacob Murphy centre from the right foond Isak, who stuck hiz right foot oot and direct the baall into the net at The Gallowgate End! 

HT 1-0 to us!

Like aa say The Beez of Brentfaad were determined to find an equaliser and it came in the 66th minute when 'The Pope' in the Toon goal pulled doon Wissa in the box and straight away aa thought 'penalty' az the ref pointed to the spot!

 Mbeumo took it and sent the baall to the right of Pope to level the scores!

They were very unlucky a few minutes later when a Pinnock heeder hit the left hand post, but thankfully the baall reboonded straight into Pope's hands! (THAT'S wot the goalframe iz for---to stop the other team scorin'!)

Just when we thought that the game would end az a draw, oot of nowhere in the 74th minute, Sandro Tonali hit a tremedous rocket shot from the East Stand side of the pitch from a very tight angle and the baall flew into the far corner of the goal, with Flekken in the Brentfaad goal faalin backwards into the nettin in hiz attempt to reach the baall!

The roar from the crowd woz deafenin' az Tonali stood arms raised on an advertisin hoardin' to take the aclaim of the masses! 

2-1 to us!

Wor visitors tried in vain to find a 2nd equaliser, (and nealy did twice!) and after 9 minutes of stoppage time the ref finally blew the whistle to end the game and end Brentfaad's winnin away streak!

The win lifts us up to the 5th Champions Leegue place, for the time bein' at least az Chelseee take on Sporz tooneet and a win or a draw for Chelseee will drop us doon to 6th place again!  "Come on yoo Sporz!" (The game iz live on SKY at 8:00 bells' tooneet)

Attendance: 52,021 (aboot 800 Beez Kneez)

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👆FOR THOSE FANS WHO SADLY ARE NO LONGER WITH US! 👇

RIP 🪦 LADS & LASSES!

ALEXANDER THE GREAT! *** THE 1st TOON PLAYER TO SCORE 

20 GOALS IN 2 CONSECUTIVE PREMYAA LEEGUE SEASONS!

THE TOON V THE BEEZ KNEEZ OF BRENTFAAD *** TOONEET!

 Posted ‘high noon bells’🕭Wedinzday 2nd April 2025 🏆

"ONE FOR SORROW! *** TWO FOR JOY!"🏆

"1,256 DAYS TO WIN SILVERWARE!"

That's🠝how many days it haz taken NUFC to win a major trophy from the PIF takeower on 7th Octobaa 2021 when we looked certain for relegation to The Championship! 🠞🠞🠞 Fast forward to 16th March 2025 and we have a team winnin' a major cup final!---A truely remarkable tornaroond!

*It seems ages since we won the Leegue Cup, but of course its just 16 days ago since the Wembley triumph---and now, after the huge victory parade through the streets on Saturday, we are back doon to Orth with a very important Premyaa Leegue home game v Brentfaad tooneet! (23 days since wor 1-0 victory at West 'am in wor last Premyaa Leegue game!)

The west Londoners are nee mugs az they beat us 4-2 back at their place on the 7th of December, when wor defence woz at sixes and sevens!---A bad day at the office for certain!--But then we beat them 3-1 in the Leegue Cup qwaataa final, just ower a fortneet later to gain revenge!

NUFC sit in the 6th place in the table and just 1 point behind Man Citih in 5th place and 2 behind Chelseee, who are 4th!

The Beez Kneez are 6 points behind us in 11th place!

The chasin pack of Brightin, Fulim, Villa and Bournemoooth are breathin doon wor neck and so 3 points iz vital at SJP to keep wor Champions Leegue dreams alive!

Of course we have aalready qualified for The Europa Conference by virtue of winnin the Leegue Cup, but we have much higher ambitions that this 3rd best European tournament, with The Europa Leegue the 2nd best option and (of course!) The Champions Leegue 'holy grail' in forst place!

Anthony Gordon iz still suspended and 'Steady Eddie' iz hopeful that the injury he picked up for Ing-er-land in the International break will be 'sorted' for wor away game at Lestaa next Munday!

Sven Botman iz aalso close to a retorn, but not for a couple of games yet!

The Toon have 10 'cup finals' left in wor quest for Champions Leegue futbaall for the 2nd time in 3 years!

A full Geordie Times match report will appear here sometime on Thorzday!----Az per usual!!!*** "Watch this space!"

WHAT A PARTY!🥳👍🏁🏆🥇

 Posted ‘high noon 🛎️bells’ Sunday 30th March 2025

An estimated 300,000 fans torned oot for the victory parade yesterday!

Some of the photos, videos and drones are absolutely brilliant!

“IT’S WOR CUP!”

FOR THOSE WHO KNOW ME, I’M ON THIS VIDEO THAT EMIL KRAFTH TOOK ON THE OPEN TOP BUS PARADE******FAME AT LAST!🤪👍🏁🏆🥇📽️

PRE PARADE BANNERS AND FLAGS!

 Posted ‘midneet 🛎️ bells’ Friday 28th March 2025

Been in the Toon tooneet to see the displays of NUFC fans banners, flags and displays for tomorrow’s open top bus parade!

The Geordie Times will of course bring you pix of the Leegue Cup parade sometime on Sunday!

“Keep the faith! NUFC!”

OPEN TOP BUS PARADE CONFORMED!

 Posted ‘high noon’ 🛎️bells’ Tuezday 25th March 2025

Updated Wedinzday neet!

Updated Thorzday afternooon!

THE LOSERS OPEN TOP BUS PARADE GANNIN UP NEWGATE STREET IN 1974 WHEN NUFC LOST 3-0 TO LIVAAPOOOL IN THE FA CUP FINAL 

("IMAGINE THE SCENES IF THEY EVER WIN ANYTHING!", SAID THE COMMENTATOR IN THIS VIDEO!)

PS: NOT SEEN ON THIS PHOTO, BUT A FAN THREW A CARDBOARD CUT OUT OF THE FA CUP COVERED IN SILVER FOIL ONTO THE OPEN TOP BUS AND BOBBY MONCUR SHOWED IT TO THE CROWD!

At last sense haz prevailed and there will indeed be an open top bus parade aroond the Toon, albeit a short one from SJP, Gallowgate, Percy Street , The Great North Road and finally the Toon Moor, where the climax of the party will end in front of at least 150,000 fans of aall ages!

Aall who showed an interest have been given free tickets!

The bus route map iz shown below!---Timings are az follows!

The open top bus parade will start at '4:30pm bells' and eventually arrive at the Toon Moor at '5:00pm bells' for the antisapated event!

*HOWEVER! Have you seen the weather forecast for Saturday which could put a dampener on precedings!🥶 ☔️ ⚡️ ⛈️ ⏬️⏬️⏬️

WILL THERE BE A SHORT PARADE TO THE MOOR?

 Posted ‘12:49pm bells’ Munday 24th March 2025

News that the NUFC team will leave SJP on the short trip to the Toon Moor next Saturday have been deein the roonds!

We have nee idea if the bus will be an open top one on the jorney via Gallowgate, Percy Street and The Great North Road which takes yoo to the ‘closed’ shop’ event on the Moor?

What we dee naa iz that The Great North Road will be shut aall day next Saturday and most likely Gallowgate and Percy Street az well!

The Geordie Times will keep yoo informed if there IZ to be a short parade aroond the streets mentioned!?

In other news NUFC Lasses beat SMB Lasses 1-0 at SJP yesterday in front of a record NUFC Lasses crowd of ower 38,000!👏 (Higher than the mackem men’s team got for their last Championship home game at the 🆘 (Stadium of 💩)

The Leegue Cup aalso made an appearance with Fairs Cup captain and club CEO Darren Eales paradin the cup at half time!⏬️

CLOSED SHOP OWN GOAL!

 Posted ‘high noon 🛎️ bells’ Saturday  22nd March 2025

AV SEEN THE CUP ‘LIVE’ AT WEMBLEY, SO I WILL GIVE MEE EVENT TICKETS TO MEE GRANDDAUGHTER AND HOR MAMMY, WHO WERNT THERE!

News that NUFC are to hold an event on the Toon Moor with season ticket holders and members gettin priority reaches The Geordie Times! (2 days late!)

Rumours of an open top bus parade before they gan to the Moor are deein the rounds!

If that’s the case I will just gan to that az I’m NOT standin in a field for 5 hours waitin for the cup presentation with nee booze allowed! (You WILL be searched before you gan in az well!)

Have got 2 free tickets for mee granddaughter and hor mammy!

But there’s a catch! The food and soft drinks from NUFCs preferred vendors ARNT free!—and they will take your eyes 👀 oot for burgers and hotdogs and pop, etc!

It’s very wrong to exclude fans who are locked oot of SJP and give priority to the likes of me and the 32,000 others who saw the cup win live!

Hopefully the club, council and ‘the dibble’ will see sense and allow a bus parade before they heed for the Moor!—Hopefully for those who get tickets that it’s not p*ssin doon aall day next Saturday!—or else the whole event will gan doon like a damp squid 🦑! 

In other news congrats to Dan Burn 🔥 for gettin hiz forst Ing-er-land cap last neet at Wembley—for the 2nd time in 5 days!  He nearly scored again az well in the 2-0 win ower  Albania!👏 

CURRENT PREMYAA LEEGUE CLUBS AND LAST MAJOR TROPHY WIN 🏆

 Posted ‘high noon 🛎️ bells’ Thorzday 20th March 2025

AZ OF TUEZDAY, THESE ARE THE CURRENT PREMYAA LEEGUE CLUBS AND THE LAST TIME THEY WON A MAJOR TROPHY!

*IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE BOTTOM 5 ON THE LIST HAVE NEVER WON A MAJOR TROPHY IN THEIR ENTIRE HISTORY!