Ground number 271
Date of First Visit: 5th November 2024
The Lamb Ground, Tamworth
Tamworth 1
Newcastle United U21s 1 (Donaldson)
Newcastle won 6-5 on penalties
National League Cup group ‘C’
Attendance: 387 (aboot 20 NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers)
“THE LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER!” (Whey not exactly!)
We travelled doon to Tamworth in a convoy of cars! (Whey not exactly!) 'Biffa the Beer' picked me up from wor hoose in his ‘jam jar’ with 'Glennn from Ashington' in the front passenger seat—We then drove to The White House in Chester-le-Street where ‘Blondie Alan the Morris Dancer’ woz waitin to pick us up in HIZ ‘jam jar’ (his turn to drive) and Biffa parked there ( ootside a hoose that’s painted white—very appropriate az the USA elections were on the same day!)
(Blondie lives in Langley Park (Where Sir Bobby Robson woz from) and it woz easier for him if we drove south and Chester iz a convenient place for a pick up!)
Anyway!—we arrived at The Lamb groond some 3 and a qwaataa hours later, parked up and heeded for the nearest boozer which woz a 10 minute walk from the groond caalled 'The Bole Bridge'!
After a few 'liquid lubrications it woz time to heed back to the groond---or more importantly 'THE TAMWORTH CLUBHOOSE!
More 'tonsil ticklin' woz done there and soon it woz time for the kick off!
Wor U21s torned oot in an aall white strip with green pipin, while Tamworth wore their red and black strip!
The groond looked a bit ramshackle apart from the smaall cantilever stand that we were in ---and would surely fail the groond gradin', shud they win promotion to the Futbaall Leegue, PLUS they wud need to rip up their artificial pitch and lay a grass one doon!
The crowd looked in the low hundreds and aa guessed that there were 400 there includin aboot 20 or so Toon diehards who had travelled from various places! (Includin the 4 of us from the north east!)
Az the game kicked off, anothaa 'Toonhopper' appeared caalled 'Secret Pigeon', who lives in Livaapool, but iz workin in the Birmingham area (He 'flew' to the game!)👇
We pounded the goal to wor right and had many chances to take the lead and aboot 9 or 10 corners az well, but couldn't make the breakthrough! It woz a totally one sided forst half against wor National Leegue opponents, but somehow they held on til the break!
HT 0-0
The Telford Lambs (their nickname) made several changes for the 2nd period and were much better in this half and had a couple of half chances!
However! it woz ‘us’ who took the lead in the 63rd minute when Josh Donaldson latch into a Jay Turner-Cooke free kick and toe poked the baall into the net!
This resulted in a huge fireworks display from ootside the groond in celebration of the goal!
The display had obviously nothin’ to dee with it bein’ the annual 5th of Novembaa 'Guy Fawkes’ celebrations, but were from exiled Toon fans ootside! (Honest!)
If the score ended aall square there would be a penalty shootout at the end of the game for an extra point!—
And so!— (yiv guessed it!) they got an equaliser a few minutes before the end through Tshikuna who hit a rocket shot past Aiden Harris in the Toon goal, to send the game into a penalty shootout for the extra point!
Which went like this az the Toon U21s took the first spot kick
1-0 Donaldson for U21s
1-0 Wallace missed goal for Tamworth
1-0 Hunt’s shot saved
1-1 Fletcher scores for Tamworth
2-1 Turner-Cooke scores for U21s
2-2 Creaney scores for Tamworth
3-2 Donaldson scores for U21s
3-3 Tshikuna scores for Tamworth
4-3 Emerson scores for U21s
4-4 Digie scores for Tamworth
5-4 McAlister scores for U21s
5-5 Cockeril scores for Tamworth
6-5 Sharar scores for U21s
6-5 Williams hits the bar for Tamworth
NUFC U21s win 6-5 on penalties to claim the extra point!
Yet anothaa groond off the list az ‘yours truly’ edges ever closer to the 3 and 3 quarter century mark!
“WE WOZ THERE!”- THE PROOF! 👇👇👇👇
Explanation for wor overseas reeeders!
Guy Fawkes tried to blow the Houses of Parliament up with gun powder in 1605 and woz hung, drawn and quartered for ‘high treason!’
He woz arrested on the 5th of Novembaa 1605 and this date haz been celebrated ever since with 🔥 bonfires and fireworks 🧨 displays ever since!
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