Malcolm recalls his American dream

9:47am today

GORDON Bradley, who rose from the bottom of Easington pit shaft to the top of US football, has died. He was 74, and utterly extraordinary, from Colliery to Cosmos.

Television off button is pressed on the 'hot bed of football'

11:07am Tuesday 13th May 2008

ALMOST 50 years after Tyne Tees Television began transmission, the last-ever regional football programme will be broadcast this evening.

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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.

Stivvie was a stumper to rank with best

10:00am Friday 2nd May 2008

HAROLD Stephenson, a Co Durham lad who became a cricket legend in Somerset, has died, aged 87.

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.

Greener and Sharp make debuts as Harry edges closer to century

8:58am Tuesday 1st April 2008

AILING fellows, well met, we again gathered to celebrate the birthday - 87, and accelerating - of Harry Clarke, the only man to play professionally for Darlington at both football and cricket.

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