| Sharks turn on the style | | 9:04am Tuesday 6th May 2008 | | IT'S BEEN a busy bank
holiday weekend, and not
what you'd call a home
banker. Darlington
Mowden Park Sharks
annual dinner was among the
highlights. |
| Parable of the lost sheep | | 9:49am Tuesday 29th April 2008 | | THE coach that picks
me up from Scotch
Corner at 7pm on
Saturday has
"Coundon Cons FC" in the front window and 40-odd
players, officials, and
supporters in the back. They're
joined by quite a lot of lager. |
| The Smiths remember big day at Wembley | | 11:42am Friday 25th April 2008 | | POMPEY and
circumstance, the
column two weeks
back on North-East
connections with
Portsmouth's 1939 FA Cup
winning side - the last time
they reached Wembley -
prompted a call from Eric
Smith in the former colliery
village of Whitburn, near
Sunderland. |
| Jack’s new stats spark debate | | 8:44am Tuesday 22nd April 2008 | | CRICKET'S here; the
incomparable Jack
Chapman -
"assistant
secretary,
statistics" - sends the
Wellstream Nothumberland and
Tyneside Senior League year
book and, inevitably, sparks a
debate. If ever there were a man
to put flesh on bones, it is J G
Chapman. |
| From Wensleydale to Wembley – with Pompey | | 10:36am Friday 11th April 2008 | | PORTSMOUTH'S first
FA Cup final since
1939 chimed with
Tom Peacock -
before collecting his
Wembley winner's medal, says
Tom, Pompey goalkeeper Harry
Walker had won 13 in the
Wensleydale League. |
| Tow Law’s a far cry from Genoa | | 9:29am Tuesday 8th April 2008 | |
GENOA is a city of
620,000 people in
northern Italy. It
has been home to
three Popes, two
Nobel prize winners and to
Christopher Columbus and is
about 2ft 6in above sea level. |
| Bay follow Wearside way | | 9:26am Friday 28th March 2008 | | NEVER too old,
Tuesday's column
half-recalled a
1960s FA Youth
Cup final between
Sunderland and West
Bromwich Albion in which
Sunderland had gone 3-0 down
in the first leg and won the
second by six. |
| Hail and farewell? | | 9:23am Tuesday 25th March 2008 | | THE wind had woken
us during the night,
not least because the
Lady of This House,
having just spent
£6,500 on double glazing, insists
upon sleeping with the window
open. |
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