Newcastle United 4-0 Aston Villa (29/10/2022)

[Tsunami]

1 hour ago, nufcmichael said:

What a game this was for us. 10 people from Newcastle United Denmark travelled to the game. Personally it was my 21th Newcastle game on stadium. Stadium tour friday, the match on saturday and sunday we were lucky enough to visit Joelinton at his house. After the game he took our flag down to the dressing room where it was signed by all the players. The next day we picked up the flag at his house, got signed our shirts, flags, match programmes and stuff like that, photos. He's just a class act, on and off the pitch. Will never forget this trip and I can't wait to visit again. 2 of the guys travelling with us had never seen Newcastle live before, they were speechless. 

Joe talks a bit about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvukpLpipI

 

 

 

That’s a great story, I take it that Jo had agreed al this beforehand? If we have one thing to thank Ashley for it is Big Jo (albeit bought for all the wrong reasons). He comes across as a great bloke. Hope you all had a great time, saw some of the Copenhagen game last week. That seemed a rocking atmosphere but I guess that’s a bit far south.

 

My mates son brought 2 of his mates to the game who’d never been farther north than Nottingham. They loved it, was like they’d never been to a match before. So good these stories.

[Wolfcastle]

1 hour ago, nufcmichael said:

What a game this was for us. 10 people from Newcastle United Denmark travelled to the game. Personally it was my 21th Newcastle game on stadium. Stadium tour friday, the match on saturday and sunday we were lucky enough to visit Joelinton at his house. After the game he took our flag down to the dressing room where it was signed by all the players. The next day we picked up the flag at his house, got signed our shirts, flags, match programmes and stuff like that, photos. He's just a class act, on and off the pitch. Will never forget this trip and I can't wait to visit again. 2 of the guys travelling with us had never seen Newcastle live before, they were speechless. 

Joe talks a bit about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCvukpLpipI

 

 

 

Great post. Made my evening. Your story in itself but Jo being Jo.  Even the autumnal vibe outside his house.

Reminded me of reading in an official programme during Sir Bobby's reign a letter from someone from Scandinavia (forget where exactly) who had just been to their first game - the 3-1 against Leeds (Duberry OG, Dyer, Bellamy) and was glad they got to experience a proper occasion.

[nufcmichael]

36 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

That’s a great story, I take it that Jo had agreed al this beforehand? If we have one thing to thank Ashley for it is Big Jo (albeit bought for all the wrong reasons). He comes across as a great bloke. Hope you all had a great time, saw some of the Copenhagen game last week. That seemed a rocking atmosphere but I guess that’s a bit far south.

 

My mates son brought 2 of his mates to the game who’d never been farther north than Nottingham. They loved it, was like they’d never been to a match before. So good these stories.

The story is actually a bit crazy.

My friend plays old boys football in a very small town here. One day at a match, a guy walks down the sideline and start watching the game. After the game he asks in english if he can play with the team. Of course he could, and they invited him to the next game which was on monday the 16th of may 2022. The guy then said that he couldn't play that game because he was going to England to see his friend play against Arsenal. My friend looked up, "Newcastle are playing Arsenal, who's your friend?". The friend was Joelinton. So after that we talked about the chance of meeting Joelinton and the guy, who's also brazilian, says no problem at all. He even called Joelinton from their dressing room after one of their games. 

The guy is a chef at a restaurant up here, so we decided to book at table to try out the restaurant. He comes out and while we were sitting at the table at the restaurant, he called Joelinton on facetime. Unfortunately at that point, Joe sat on plane on the way to Austria for the training camp. 

This friday we then got news from our friend, that Joe had told him that we could give him our flag after the game and he would get it signed by the whole team. Then we could come to his house on sunday and pick it up and get some photos and stuff. 

It's just a crazy crazy story. I mean there's not a lot of Newcastle fans in Denmark, so the chance of this guy actually meeting one at a football game in a small city with 2-300 inhabitants, is like one in a billion.

They guy knows Joelinton from when Joelinton was playing in Austria on loan.

 

 

Edited November 3, 2022 by nufcmichael

[Tsunami]

Haha, that’s nuts.

[Danh1]

Big Jow just seems like such a top class bloke man.

 

Absolute fucking animal on the pitch too. Hope he’s here for the rest of his career - with many trophies on his cv. Absolute legend. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

On 03/11/2022 at 12:16, RS said:

Such a stereotypical working class sport. Needs changes like warning/bans for foul language in and around the ground. I’d also ban alcohol in the ground and maybe give stewards the power to refuse entry if they believe an individual has imbibed excessive amounts of alcohol prior to trying to enter the ground.
A crowd similar to The Voice or Strictly would be far less intimidating.  

Football is a working class sport. Working class people, talking more historically when the concept/divide could be seen from the moon and was crossed by few, weren’t/don’t have to be foul mouthed irreverent and abusive. And not saying you are making it, but I resent the/any implication of amorality.  I recall my grandfather, who worked as a ganger laying tracks for  GNER, chasing (in his slippers!) and slapping daft three drunken young men for swearing in front of and then at my grandmother. Suspect he was as colourful as anyone with his use of language, in the right place. 

[Rich]

I think that post from RS was a joke… wasn’t it?