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Plane-spotting keeper to Corb his enthusiasm

10:02am Saturday 20th March 2010

It was the day that veteran goalkeeper Corbett Waistell’s enthusiasm got the better of him – and led him to spend two nights handcuffed to six other prisoners in an infested Egyptian cell.

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Octogenarian Bill still banging the goals in

9:31am Tuesday 16th March 2010

AS the Book of Common Prayer tells us, there are the quick and the dead. Bill Smith, 86 in June, is not just very much alive but yesterday played his usual game of six-a-side football against men less than half his age.

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Gordon’s team flying flag for Darlington at Wembley

10:50am Saturday 13th March 2010

THE Quakers face almost certain relegation, the RA – what might be termed Darlington’s second team – struggle at the foot of the Northern League second division.

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All is not well at Barwell

2:13pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

BY booking in advance, leaving before 8am, with a senior railcard and when no one’s looking, you can get a single from Darlington to Leicester for just £13. It’s a bit early, but times are tight.

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Still petrol in the tank for daredevil Schellenberg

10:29am Saturday 6th March 2010

AN EYE on the Winter Olympics, familiarly making bricks without straw – a skill denied even the Children of Israel – the column two weeks ago recalled the life and extraordinary times of toboggan king Keith Schellenberg.

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Referee gets a rough ride from Broncos

10:01am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

AMID its proper concerns for the precarious state of Mr John Terry’s personal relationships, the March issue of When Saturday Comes – the self-styled “half decent football magazine” – devotes a two-page photo feature to the Wensleydale Creamery League derby between Richmond Academy and the neatly named Buck Inn Broncos.

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Shildon heroes had Wembley in their sights

10:01am Saturday 27th February 2010

TODAY’S the day, Shildon’s first appearance in a national quarterfinal for 51 years and a little home-from-home work must, please, be indulged.

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Colin Milburn, a gust of North-East fresh air

9:23am Tuesday 23rd February 2010

IT’S 20 years on Sunday since Colin Milburn, one of the bright burning meteors of post-war English cricket, fell to earth in a pub car park. The man they called the Burnopfield Basher was just 48.

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King of Yorkshire sport always liked to have fun

10:50am Saturday 20th February 2010

THE Winter Olympics are upon us, and by the rumble of reports from Vancouver, pretty much downhill all the way.

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Don’t forget Donald

9:53am Tuesday 16th February 2010

SEEKING to strengthen an archive of their unique achievement, Bishop Auckland football club had best not forget Donald Simpson Bell – as John Phelan points out, the only Football League player to win a VC.

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