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WHAT good is a charm offensive if it offends your most loyal customers?Read

Why Owen’s deserving of natural justice

SO we finally have definitive proof – if any were really needed – that Michael Owen didn’t fancy it at Newcastle last season.Read

A sense of deja vu for Cats boss?

IT may just be with me being a lanky Cockney streak of wee, but Sunderland are looking seriously short right now.Read

Life a pitch? Send 'em to boot camp

WHEN it comes to the World Cup, you can’t accuse us of not getting our excuses in early.Read

Good on yer to a fair dinkum Aussie

IT was all but lost in a week when the media obsession with Cheryl, Ashley and JT reached a Bridge too far, but it wasn’t lost on me.Read

North teams need more like Paul Gascoigne!

IF you haven’t any sympathy left for Paul Gascoigne, then pity the North East fans he appears hellbent on leaving behind.Read

Bring back our Eddie the Eagle!

THE British Olympic Association are wrong to foot the bill for our skiers and snowboarders at the Winter Olympics after their governing body went bust.Read

John Terry leave is an insult

IF anyone deserves “compassionate leave” over the John Terry scandal, it’s surely Wayne Bridge.Read

Football lands in the cuckoo’s nest

AT around the time Jack Nicholson was feigning madness on Sky Movies the other night, Sky Sports News delivered final confirmation of football’s insanity.Read

No cunning Bruce plan to damage Black Cats

SO is Steve Bruce the new Lawrie Mackemenemy? A Geordie not-so-secret agent dispatched to bring down the old enemy from within?Read

Arrogant Devils those Reds!

CONTEXT, proportion, perspective . . . these, like most other words of more than two syllables, are a mystery to many leading modern-day footballers.Read

Bent stays online, Black Cats stay online

AS a proud Luddite, my initial opinion of Twitter was that someone should replace its first vowel with a different one.Read

In the red but still leaving rivals blue

IN a region where football managers are cutting their cloth to suit lean times, a cheap shot was delivered – in humble Eppleton – in midweek.Read

So what’s the objective now then, Steve?

YOU couldn’t tell on the telly the other night, but you’d understand it if Gareth Southgate’s nose was out of joint.Read

Passion alone is just not enough

IN trying to nail a deal for a club whose owner cannot be pinned down, the Newcastle United Supporters’ Trust were always likely to have to move their own goalposts at some point.Read

Fans are still vital 12th man

ALMOST three years ago, with their sights set on the Premier League, Sunderland turned down the chance to play live on Sky.Read

England behaviour is just not cricket!

IN a week when the weather has made all men equal, cricket’s superiority complex was buried beneath an avalanche of denial and double standards.Read

At this ratewe will play in summer!

ANYONE else reckon they would have been watching a football match somewhere yesterday if this was 1980 rather than 2010?Read

Radio ga-ga from Barton and Beeb

AS yet, other than the continued health and happiness of my family, and the wife getting a boob job, I have just one wish for the new decade.Read

Trotters? It’s the end of the line

IF Alan Shearer and Peter Reid fancy a new job with the Trotters, they'd be better off - metaphorically, at least - with Del Boy and Rodders than with Bolton.Read