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Lovley Whitley keep the puns at bay

May 10 2009 by Michael Kelly, Sunday Sun

SOMETIMES sports fans in the region are too obsessed with how our Premier League teams are doing when a glance over the elitest wall provides more satisfying views.

I refer of course to Sunderland Women’s team getting to the final of the FA Cup before losing narrowly to Arsenal and, of course, Whitley Bay, who play in the FA Vase today at Wembley.

Having met Bay manager Ian Chandler, his players and some their wives and girlfriends in recent weeks, I can say if they lift the cup there wont be a more deserving bunch of people.

It’s a club like a close-knit family which has not lost touch with its roots . . . a million miles away from their Premier League equivalents, some of who resemble a school for spoilt b*****ds.

And let’s not forget Gateshead lad Graham Onions, pictured, currently running rings around the West Indies, leaving them in tears, slicing them and dicing them etc etc etc.

Headline writers await with great anticipation Onions being joined by his Durham colleague Phil Mustard.

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