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Aussie skipper’s whining is just Pont-less

I’M surprised Freddie Flintoff could hear his body telling him anything – let alone to quit – over Ricky Ponting’s whining last week.Read

Is Mike taking the Mick out of us?

SO Joe Kinnear coming back as Newcastle manager would be the final insult to United’s fans, would it?Read

Talk is cheap in land of confusion

NOBODY should be surprised that Newcastle supporters became the Cartoon Army – by falling for a load of Hong Kong Phooey – in midweek.Read

Ponting’s the heartbeat of the Aussies

CALL me a traitor, but I couldn’t help but enjoy watching Ricky Ponting put England to the sword this week.Read

Team work could make dream work

THERE’S something special about being part of a team. Something that’s difficult for many individuals to understand.Read

It's Aunty's bloomers

I DON’T pay my licence fee for the BBC to dress up half-baked speculation as gospel truth.Read

In a nutshell

IT goes without saying that Michael Owen is a lucky boy. But Newcastle United are perhaps luckier still.Read

Star’s wounds run much deeper than defensive Owen’s

IT’S that long since he scored a goal, it’s no wonder he’s getting defensive.Read

The man’s a miracle!

HAS anyone checked if Niall Quinn can walk on water?Read

There IS a hero in fallen fortress

ST JAMES’S PARK may not seem a place, and now not much of a time, for heroes. Newcastle United has descended into a panto with multiple villains; a malicious melting pot of Captain Hooks, King Rats, Evil Stepmothers and Ugly Sisters.Read

Parker knows he hit the spot with hoax!

AS a Sunday tabloid sports reporter, my stock in journalism is pretty low.Read

Sound of silence is just deafening

THOSE of you with an ear for news of events at Newcastle United should stop for a minute, and listen.Read

Red Bruce will not do a bunk on Black cats

STEVE BRUCE’S Newcastle sympathies must be among the biggest Red herrings in football.Read

Current crop could learn from United true heroes

A LITTLE after seven on Thursday in the Lancastrian Suite of the Fed Brewery in Dunston, they played Bowie’s “Heroes”, and thereafter, one by one, they emerged on stage.Read

Please, no tears for real culprits

NO trouble, no topless fat lads, and definitely, positively, absolutely NO tears.Read

Most wanted - North East football's blame XI

COME in Coloccini, Owen, Viduka, Martins, Nolan, Ryan Taylor, Jones, Cisse, Ferdinand, Alves, Aliadiere, Mido and many, many more . . . your time on the North East gravy train is up.Read

Will the fate of clubs give Viduka deja vu feeling?

IF Newcastle and Sunderland escape relegation, and even if Middlesbrough do not, what then?Read

Pipe dream the undoing of Newcastle Blue Star

NEVER mind Newcastle Blue Star, here is a club that sailed too close to the sun. It is only to be hoped their lesson has been learned by those moons circulating about them. Read