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Why we will all miss Joe's presence

JOE KINNEAR will never mean as much to folk up here as an old flame loved and lost.Read

Wise should face music at Newcastle

AS with Mark Twain two centuries ago, reports last week of Dennis Wise’s demise were greatly exaggerated.Read

Why I fear for Gareth

I’D like to think Gareth Southgate will be allowed to complete the task of turning Middlesbrough into a model club for these tough times.Read

Derby day preview: How have two tribes fallen

ALWAYS a case of tribal warfare, it also promised to be a battle royal between two of British football’s biggest names.Read

Joe is in the right over bad boy Zog

IF Charles N’Zogbia was half the player he thinks he is, Kaka wouldn’t be the only £100 million-rated footballer in the world.Read

Harry’s game isn’t fooling any of us

WHEN they close it tomorrow night, can football’s so-called authorities finally trap Harry Redknapp’s fingers in the transfer window?Read

Clowns are really scaring the fans

FOR a few blessed hours last Tuesday, Newcastle United were knocked off the top of the FA Comedy Club League.Read

Who picks the refs?

IF they can charge a manager for a minor mutual spat, but NOT for undermining the whole refereeing system, the FA are an aptly acronymed bunch.Read

Newcastle being run responsibly... or into the ground?

SO Joe Kinnear has been forced to sift through the thrift rails at the January sales, praying for some TK Maxx-style miracle.Read

Cook worthy of England role

IF Geoff Cook doesn’t want to coach the England cricket team, that’s fair enough.Read

Press are playing Harry’s game

LET’S get this straight: football journalists love Harry Redknapp. No, let’s get it straighter still: football journalists south of Watford love Harry Redknapp.Read

How about getting the ECB, Mike?

IF Mike Ashley — and that’s not much of an if — is still willing to sell Newcastle United, he might think about approaching the ECB?Read

Now even Shay’s given up on United

SO now we have the measure of how “responsibly” Mike Ashley is running Newcastle United . . .Read

Hoy! He’s not worthy knight

IT didn’t take long for 2009 to deliver a sobering measure of the dumbing down of Britain.Read

Why Tyneside WILL miss Mr Newcastle

THE man himself has never been shy of using the odd cliche, so I’ll not stand on ceremony now . . .Read

Sbragia the new Crozza?

RICKY SBRAGIA’S nest may now be feathered at Sunderland, but will a ghost of Christmas past see that, ultimately, his goose is cooked?Read

Are Arsenal’s boo boys Gunner get away with it?

I AWAITED it all week. Dashed into work to scan the papers every day. Pored over them like a man who hasn’t been in journalism 15 years and reckons he’s read it all.Read

It has to be Houllier or Curbs

IF horses for courses is the safest way forward for Sunderland, then Gerard Houllier or Alan Curbishley should be frontrunners to succeed Roy Keane.Read

Keane proved us doubters wrong . . but legacy too big for Sam

AND so it ended for Roy Keane and Sunderland as some of us said it would . . .Read

Get Big Mac back? Never . . . but it’s time to deliver Roy

THERE’S a fella down my local supports Sunderland. At least, I thought he supported Sunderland. Now, I’m not so sure. Not after his reaction to defeat by West Ham last Sunday night.Read