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Girls play for the love of the game

IF the Doncaster Belles famously stole an author’s heart back in the day, teams like the Jarrow Belles can help restore football’s soul.Read

Don’t pass over the Mustard

PHIL MUSTARD should change his surname to Chocolate.Read

Get down – or go down – with kids

THOUGH he would have us believe he is blazing a trail, Mike Ashley is merely treading a well-worn path in getting down with Newcastle United’s kids.Read

It’s high time Johnson was spectator at Kingston Park

IMAGINE if Fabio Capello had struggled to make an appearance at each and every Premier League ground in his first two years as England coach.Read

Chairman Quinn is a real man of people

IF Niall Quinn had been an option at every ballot box, I doubt we’d have a hung Parliament.Read

T20 result proved a lame Duck

THERE'S no method in involving Duckworth and Lewis in Twenty20 cricket, only madness.Read

The Bent truths of carping Harry

I WOULD blame Harry Redknapp. But I reckon I’d be on my own.Read

North East XI who have proved they have the write stuff

NEVER mind the Football Writers’ awards, this football writer’s awards don’t follow the well-trodden, predictable path to the door of your Rooneys, Drogbas and Milners.Read

Heed will survive being in shadow

NEVER mind Sir Bobby Robson or Sir John Hall, another knight who saw things in black and white would have appreciated a case of football in extremis yesterday.Read

Does the sit-down policy stand up?

A LESS than pleasant irony hangs over Sunderland’s decision to slash Manchester United’s ticket allocation for their visit to Wearside next Sunday.Read

Gary O’Neil saga a right farce

THE farce over Gary O’Neil is an embarrassing reminder of some bad old days at Middlesbrough. Just four months after signing a two-year contract extension, the midfielder is sat on his hands while Boro baulk at paying the £1 million owed to former club Portsmouth once he plays 100 games for the Teessiders.Read

Longest trip made worse by Sky now a non-event

I DON’T know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that Newcastle’s trip to Devon tomorrow now promises all the tension and significance of a Saga mini-break.Read

Hartlepool in a Liddle bit of trouble!

AS defence pleas go, Chris Turner’s seemed right up there with Lieutenant George’s efforts at Captain Blackadder’s court-martial.Read

Reluctant heroes

WHEN even people clad head to toe in Mike Ashley’s clobber aren’t foaming at the mouth, you know Newcastle is largely free of Premier League fever.Read

Fergie gets beaten at own game

BESIDES not doing the BBC or post-match press conferences – in defiance of Premier League “regulations” (ho ho) – we now know Sir Alex Ferguson doesn’t do irony.Read

No more Mr Nice Guy in big league

EVEN men who betrayed two Messiahs (Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer) can’t do wrong by the merely mortal – yet heroic – Chris Hughton.Read

Why Arena cuts no ice with fans

A CURSORY look back at the history of ice hockey at the Newcastle Arena at least partly explains the venue’s ruthless treatment of the Newcastle Vipers.Read

Bent deserves to be top Cat

WITH hindsight – isn’t it amazing how many people see so clearly looking backwards? – I should have known why Sunderland would swim this season where Newcastle sank 12 months ago . . .Read

More than bones broken at United

HANDS up every Newcastle United fan who believes the Battle of Benton, or whatever it was, doesn't matter much?Read

Big Mick has earned his big moment in top flight

IT was drowned out by the screeching of countless Cockney “sparras”, but I raised a cheer for Sam the Eagle at Upton Park the other night.Read

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