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One of the biggest insults to throw at fans

IT was probably not the final insult – that looks ever more likely to arrive on May 24 – but it was one of the biggest.Read

Do Spartans know what they've Dunn?

THE name Harry Dunn – and, being brutally honest, the look of the man – smacks a little bit of Dad’s Army.Read

Feast of football

WITH the council telly menu offering a choice of Hell’s Kitchen or teenage obesity, it was little wonder the nation reached for the Sky last Tuesday night.Read

Keane gives Short shrift

ROY KEANE, it’s now safe to say (now we’re at safe distance), doesn’t do irony.Read

Why do they take talent for granted?

MY eldest son yearns, as most kids in these parts do, for a career in professional football.Read

Rugby’s Jacko – the lowest blow yet to Wilkinson!

I CAN’T begin to imagine what it has taken for Jonny Wilkinson to try to rebuild his career time and time again rather than turn his back on its ruins.Read

Can Alan follow in Clough’s footsteps?

IT takes something — and someone — to upstage the late, and seemingly ever-more-great, Brian Clough.Read

Big mistake was not to act quickly

WHERE would Newcastle United be now had they looked for a new manager, rather than to manage the news, in Joe Kinnear’s absence?Read

Proof the good old days were the best

PROOF, as if North East football fans needed any, that the good old days really were better arrived in midweek.Read

A critical point in battle for survival

IN the fight for survival that is Premier League management, there is one battle which can rarely be won.Read

Top stars, but no local heroes

YOU don’t really miss what you rarely have.Read

What’s wrong with plain old mistakes?

THE referral system or world peace? Cricket, the choice is yours.Let’s face it, if the game’s latest technological “advance” can cause uproar during the dullest Test series (its final session apart) in memory, what havoc could it wreak elsewhere?Read

A unified front can only help fans aim

HOPEFULLY, now they have agreed on a way forward, the Newcastle United Supporters Club can speak as one.Read

Charlie Crowe’s tragedy is a sad reminder

HOW cruelly poignant — or should that be poignantly cruel? — that Charlie Crowe is stricken by Alzheimer’s Disease.Read

Deeper fear of taking the drop

NEVER mind the foot of the Premier League, the bottom of the Championship should scare the North East “Big Three” most.Read

It’s now time to move goalposts

I DIDN’T think it was the English way to kick a man when he’s down. Try telling that to Darlington Football Club.Read

No sympathy for bookies

LAST time I checked, none of the nation’s bookmakers were begging for a Government bail-out.Read

A whole new Board game

IF GETTING into bed with Sir Allen Stanford was the England and Wales Cricket Board’s only sin, I’d forgive them.Read

What on earth is going on at the FA?

DO THE people running English football live in a bubble?Read

Actions will speak louder than words

NO doubt Derek Llambias thought he was saying all the right things when he finally broke his silence last week.Read

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