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Keegan: the truth (honest!)

SO Kevin Keegan ultimately lost out by refusing to settle his dispute with Newcastle United “out of court”, did he?Read

Why the kids are far from alright

DEPENDING on whether your team are still in it, the Carling Cup’s either as flat as a fart or a still heady brew.Read

Fight on to keep field for our youth

THIS Government came to power vowing to bring their Tory predecessors’ “policy of selling off playing fields to an end”.Read

Referee shortage threatens football

AS my eldest son takes his first, unsteady but excited steps in kids’ football, I’m learning that our grassroots game lacks just one thing.Read

Unfair to lay the blame at KK’s door

IF, as more than a few Newcastle United fans believe, Kevin Keegan is holding a gun to the club’s head, then Mike Ashley forced it into his hand.Read

The nation’s loss is Durham’s gain

WITH a second successive Championship having thundered remorselessly up the A1, you’d think that Durham would be on the right side of any cricketing north-south divide.Read

Michael Chopra is proof of class gap

THE prospect of a striker once dubbed the new Alan Shearer putting one over Newcastle may be difficult for some to swallow.Read

Desire to tighten belt is dangerous

IN THESE hard times, an opportunity to cut costs can appear like an oasis in the Sahara. Trouble is, where football’s concerned, an oasis is almost always a mirage. Most economies in the Beautiful Game are false. Read

Academy relief at Chelsea ban

SCHADENFREUDE is a pretentious word thrown around by literary types to make us Dan Brown and Harry Potter-reading heathens feel small.Read

Welcome to the House of Pain

A YEAR ago on Tuesday, as word spread of Kevin Keegan walking out of St James’s Park for a third time, Newcastle United fans had that sinking feeling.Read

Trouble is not rare

IF not quite hysterical, the media reaction to the bother in and around Upton Park on Tuesday was out of proportion – and out of touch.Read

Football’s future is Plainly secure

APOLOGIES to any pedestrians in Annfield Plain sent diving for cover by an ageing, erratically-driven Audi estate last Saturday lunchtime.Read

Show of support silenced the Toon bashers

SO what about those daft Geordies, eh? You know the ones . . . the delusional glory-hunters who wrongly believe theirs is a big club. Read

Cut and run, Mike - it’s a no-brainer

I HAVE a sure-fire way to ease Newcastle United’s desperate financial plight.Read

FA’s double standards on drugs

SO let me be sure I’ve got this straight . . .Read

Let’s play it again for Sir Bobby

HE made a monumental impact on me as a journalist, and on millions more out in the real world.Read

Bent signing stirs memory of good times

IF the latest word from Joe Kinnear and yet more takeover talk left Newcastle fans depressed this week, they didn’t want to think too hard about Darren Bent.Read

Depression is hanging over proud region

TIME was when the start of the football season – like the smell of freshly mown grass or the taste of an ice-cold beer – was a reassuring signature of the summer.Read