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Time to say my goodbyes

IT’S funny how you measure time – or lose sight of it when you’re having fun.Read

The Premier league must deliver this term, or else

RARELY have the nation’s football supporters so needed the Premier League to deliver on its hype.Read

Bramble has big bridges to build, Brucie

HIS roots lie on the banks of the Tyne and his feet are planted on Wearside, but Steve Bruce’s head – as well as much of his heart – remains in Manchester.Read

Ferguson must take his share of blame

SIR ALEX FERGUSON blames player burn-out for England’s World Cup woe.Read

Redknapp shields himself from truth

THERE may well be merit in the argument that a dearth of homegrown players has – and will – cost England’s football team dear.Read

Replaying same old routine of selfishness

INTENT as they are on running the England team, you would think the Premier League were embarking on a dry run – by taking control of the FA Cup?Read

Time to blow the whistle on TV drivel

IT IS difficult to know which has outstayed its welcome longer . . . James Corden’s World Cup Live (how’s that for a misnomer?) or the World Cup. Read

Gosling walkout ruffles feathers

DAN GOSLING, as a child of the bling generation, probably knows about NBA legend LeBron James. But I doubt the young now ex-Everton midfielder has heard of Dan Gilbert, LeBron’s erstwhile boss at the Cleveland Cavaliers. Read

Would you put England before your club then?

IT’S been the unifying mantra in a week of deafening discord; the sole sympathetic lament after the lamentable; the only apology made amid the unforgivable.Read

All in a muddle over United French fancy

NOT for the first time – not even for the first time this week, in fact – I’m confused.Read

Don't laugh - we're also in the merde

IT’S been a rare crumb of comfort floating on a sea of dross at this World Cup... At least we’re not French. The foppish, feckless, feeble French.Read

Toon’s MO better blues

IT would be easy to use James Milner’s emergence on the world stage as a stick with which to beat Newcastle United.Read

All's well amid the Toon silence?

CHRIS HUGHTON and Bjork. There are two names I never thought I’d mention in the same sentence.Read

McClaren success is no stamp of quality

JUST imagine the frustration if the World Cup had kicked off without a single England fan murdering God Save The Queen on a vuvuzela.Read

No news is good news for Newcastle United?

IF Newcastle United don't want media coverage of any kind, they must be supremely confident of selling season tickets.Read

Theo Walcott fury is misplaced

IF anyone still doubted the existence of English football’s class divide, Theo Walcott has surely re-educated them.Read

Fan who typified Geordie passion

IN the battle to disprove the widespread notion that Newcastle fans are an insular band of bumpkins, Bryan Williams was a quietly effective weapon.Read