A Fantastic Football Blog

Although this is strictly a Hockey blog, I want to draw people’s attention to a blog about my favourite soccer team, Newcastle United, called the Geordie Times. It is written by a good friend of mine called Fink, who travels to every single Newcastle game, at home, on the road and abroad!!

The Geordie Times is an entertaining read for any fan of Soccer but for guys who live across the pond in USA & Canada, it may be able to form an insight into the life and times of an avid supporter, who has been there and done it all since the late 1960s. Fink has been to over 300 different stadiums around the world to watch Newcastle United and has a tale to tell about every single one. It is maybe the funny stories that surround each trip that makes it so entertaining, after all we can all write a play-by-play report of the game, but if you want something a little bit different, some background into the dramas and the passions of following a soccer team in England then please give it a try. Fink also gives great up-to-date news headlines affecting the club and spells everything he writes the way you would pronounce it in Newcastle. Don’t worry for those of you not familiar with the Geordie language there is a translation of terms used, on the side panel.

 

 

For those of you unfamiliar with the English Premier League, if Newcastle United were a hockey team they would be the Toronto Maple Leafs, a huge team, with a massive following, but alas have not won a trophy since the 1960s. The Newcastle supporters ‘the Toon Army’ are probably more akin to the Vancouver Canucks, in that after a big, important game is lost, they will riot across the city.

 

 

That, whetted your appetite hey? Then check it out here: www.geordietimes.com