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What an apt name!

SO the man charged with selling Newcastle United was aptly named after all. Perhaps Mike Ashley should have left the job to Orville.Read

Should Shearer stay well clear of Toon job?

IS Alan Shearer really ready for the job of reviving Newcastle United? More to the point, is Newcastle United ready for him? Read

Why Cole fires painful memories of Entertainers

IT’S been a week of remembrance, but I hope few Newcastle United fans paused for reflection when told of Andy Cole hanging up his boots.Read

So what exactly are the rules?

HAVE the laws of football changed much in the last two years? Come to think of it, have they changed at all?Read

So Roy’s lost the plot? Get a grip!

IT’S been suggested to me that certain Sunderland players believe Roy Keane overreacted by dropping several so-called senior pros at Chelsea last week.Read

Not a new era in hooliganism!

OFTEN, you have to take a step backwards to see things in a clearer perspective. Not that you can justify the trouble at last week’s Tyne-Wear derby by looking at it with head cocked to one side and finger on chin like you would some modernist nonsense by Tracy Emin.Read

Group could put off buyers

IT’S high time Newcastle’s football fans were united. High time the Geordie chorus sang with one authoritative voice.Read

Has football become a non-contact sport?

WITH friends like Graham Poll, who needs enemies?Read

Joe deserves role at club

BY the time you read this, Joe Kinnear may well be the first Newcastle manager to lose a derby in Sunderland since Bill McGarry.Read

New Roy so cool, calm and collected

WHETHER triumph or disaster await him next Saturday, Roy Keane should celebrate — and be celebrated — anyway . . .Read

Propaganda war rages

HOW curious that supposed confirmation of Kevin Keegan suing Newcastle United should originate in a London newspaper.Read

Bobby's book a thing of beauty

I’M well aware that the stock of sportswriters has fallen flatter than the FTSE 100 in recent months.Read

Victims of the Dark Side? Sou must be joking!

THERE are few things sadder than the sight and sound of men rewriting history — and their part in it.Read

Jonny’s book of ironies

THERE were several sad ironies about Jonny Wilkinson’s latest autobiography landing on my desk this week.Read

Just what would Wor Jackie say?

THOUGH the world would be much the richer with Jackie Milburn still in it, it’s a small mercy he wasn’t around last Wednesday.Read

Hacks take heed . . . Toon fans are not deluded

MORE strife at Newcastle. More mirth nationwide. More works of gleefully-penned fiction from slavering, slack-jawed journalists darn sarf.Read

Pic stripped sporting great of his dignity

“GREAT pictures!” Sky Sports News proclaimed, as Sergio Garcia put his arm around the frail old man and gurned for the camera.Read

British will always get MY backing

FOR the people of this country, patriotism used to be an innate characteristic; the stuff of instinct.Read

Will Toon go down plughole?

MIKE ASHLEY wouldn’t answer questions about Newcastle the other night because it had been a “Sports Direct day”.Read

Moving on is the only real way forward Ashley

I’D always thought people who felt the departure of a footballer or football manager like a death in the family needed to get a life.Read

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