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Just what would Wor Jackie say?

THOUGH the world would be much the richer with Jackie Milburn still in it, it’s a small mercy he wasn’t around last Wednesday. Read

Hacks take heed . . . Toon fans are not deluded

MORE strife at Newcastle. More mirth nationwide. More works of gleefully-penned fiction from slavering, slack-jawed journalists darn sarf. Read

Pic stripped sporting great of his dignity

“GREAT pictures!” Sky Sports News proclaimed, as Sergio Garcia put his arm around the frail old man and gurned for the camera. Read

British will always get MY backing

FOR the people of this country, patriotism used to be an innate characteristic; the stuff of instinct. Read

Will Toon go down plughole?

MIKE ASHLEY wouldn’t answer questions about Newcastle the other night because it had been a “Sports Direct day”. Read

Moving on is the only real way forward Ashley

I’D always thought people who felt the departure of a footballer or football manager like a death in the family needed to get a life. Read

Pools shouldn’t turn their back on local Press!

IF you ask me, that there t’Internet has a lot to answer for. Even if you don’t ask me, I’m telling you anyway. Like it or not, that’s my job. Read

Mark my word it’s a disgrace

MARK DAVIES is to the England cricket selectors what Stonehenge is to historians — an enduring mystery. Read

Give me a rest from ECB

IF you’ve got an old barrel somewhere about the place, go take a look at it. Read

What good comes from Smith boos?

SO Premier League players, chairmen and managers have signed up for a mutual love-in, aka the “Get On With The Game” campaign. Read

I’m out to get Mr Ashley apparently

CONSPIRACY theories and sport don’t often mix. Mostly because the type of people who believe in one don’t tend to be cut out for the other. Read

Black Cats the nouveau riche in North East?

A CHANGING of the guard, a reversal of the food chain or just plain proof of life’s cyclical nature? Call it what you will, but Sunderland — after almost two decades playing pauper to Newcastle United — look like the nouveau riche of North East football. Read

Toon can’t sign top stars on the cheap

THE week started with circumstantial evidence that Newcastle United were wriggling free of Mike Ashley’s big pinch. Read

ECB vision blurred by pound signs

HALF-COCK in their reaction to the debacle at Durham a fortnight back, I reckon the England and Wales Cricket Board has finally hit the target . . . Read

The real villains will go unpunished

THE biggest pity of Monday night’s farcical piece at the Riverside is that its biggest villains go unpunished. Read

That's it, it's Stockholm syndrome!

SEPP BLATTER is a visionary. I see that now. Read

So who is deluded

I READ somewhere last week that Newcastle United supporters suffer “delusions of grandeur”. Read

Do Joey and Dwain deserve our support?

IT’S all very well getting paid to have an opinion. But when your opinion is morally bankrupt . . ? Read

ECB: Moral crusaders, or appeasers?

DOES the following statement fairly sum up the political situation in Zimbabwe today? Read

Gods smiled on Collingwood

IN the end, the gods smiled on Paul Collingwood at The Oval on Wednesday . . . Read

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