Things I definitely WILL and WON’T be doing this summer | OneFootball

Fellow Newcastle United fans, here is my summer diary.

The things I WILL definitely be doing.

As well as the things I definitely WON’T be doing.

Only nine weeks until it all kicks off again with the 2025/26 season.

Enjoy your summer…

I will be going to watch Sam Fender at St James’ Park tonight.

I won’t be watching any of this embarrassing FIFA Club World Cup farce.

I will be looking forward to the release of the 2025/26 Premier League fixtures on Wednesday (18 June).

I won’t be worrying about who we play and when we play them. I don’t expect to win every match but I know we can win any match under Eddie Howe.

I will be going to the Hoppings this month. I have always been too scared to go on any of the rides but just love the whole thing, wandering around, always loved it when I was a kid and no different now. So many Goldfish I won and none of them lasted a week!

I won’t be taking any notice of any media claims that any Newcastle United player wants to leave. Some players will leave, but only because Eddie Howe has decided this will be so. After the season NUFC have just had and the upward trajectory under Eddie Howe, I don’t believe anybody wants to leave St James’ Park.

I will be looking forward to Thursday 28 August 2025, when the draw will be made for the league stage of the 2025/26 Champions League.

I won’t be worrying about how NUFC will do in the Champions League. Any success, relative or otherwise, will simply be a bonus.

I will be travelling up to Celtic Park next month. I am one of the 7,200 Newcastle fans who will be in the official away end but with how many people I know who are buying tickets in the home sections, sounds to me like we will have over 10,000 heading up to Glasgow.

I won’t be heading to Singapore and South Korea. When I suggested it as a nice summer break, for some reason my wife didn’t agree…

I will be going to the Northumberland Plate. The Pitmen’s derby is yet another must do, as part of the Geordie social diary.

I won’t be reading anything The Chronicle puts out. This was another great Geordie institution, for Newcastle United fans, where you got all your NUFC information, as well as The Pink. Sadly, the route they have gone down in this digital modern world is simply woeful, the NUFC coverage anyway (well I never read The Chronicle for anything else!).

I will be taking a stroll along the Quayside on a fair few Sunday mornings. It was another massive part of my childhood in the 1970s and 1980s, getting taken down there when the market was on, the Tyne used to often be stinking back then but the stallholders were real characters. They have done a great job of reinventing the Quayside Sunday market and whilst fair to say it is more genteel and middle class these days (Streetfood from around the world, instead of Keegan’s hotdogs!), it is a lush walk and great options for a few pints of course.

I won’t be worrying that Newcastle United haven’t signed a whole new team of world class players by the end of June.

I will be looking forward to the new season with every passing day it gets ever closer.

I won’t expect the season to be automatically a success BUT now we have a club that tries to be the best it can be, on and off the pitch, that is all I have ever wanted. The most important thing is the strength of the triangular relationship between the manager, the players and the fans. With Eddie Howe and this group of players, I am loving it.