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Gold standard

3:55pm Thursday 16th May 2013

UP for the FA Cup final last Saturday, presented at the pre-match lunch with one of the FA’s “Gold” Respect awards for the Ebac Northern League’s “Secret Shopper” initiative.

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Journey’s end

4:30pm Thursday 9th May 2013

THE Railroad’s different on final day. For one thing the national stadium really is the end of the line and for another, as almost it says in Mark 2:4, you can hardly stir for the press.

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Old ball game

4:02pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

OFFERED at £1,000, the ball from the 1905 FA Amateur Cup final – West Hartlepool v Clapton – spent last week for sale on eBay. It never really got rolling.

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Helping hand

4:01pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

IT bears a remarkable resemblance to a more famous goal scored 27 years earlier, though the second hand-me-down came in rather humbler surroundings.

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Golden oldies

11:36am Thursday 25th April 2013

THEY still sing of Edgar Kail at Dulwich Hamlet, though he last played for them in 1933 and died in 1976. The column a couple of weeks back wondered if anyone longer dead still featured in a football song.

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Barry’s last lap

11:29am Thursday 25th April 2013

BARRY PARNABY, who it had seemed would just run and run, has died after a long illness. He was 80, though once it had appeared that he wouldn’t even reach the halfway mark.

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Prospect of Wembley helping to lift a gloom town out of the doldrums

4:11pm Thursday 11th April 2013

IT must be quite hard for a fair weather fan of Spennymoor Town, or anyone else for that matter, on a perishing morning like Monday gone. They’re queuing in the cold, for all that.

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Double celebration

4:12pm Thursday 11th April 2013

KEITH Hopper, one of the select band to have played both cricket and football for Durham County – and to have done it very well – celebrated his 80th birthday last Friday. There’s a lot more to it than that.

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Dream mile

3:27pm Thursday 21st March 2013

LAST week’s column carried an evocative picture of the great athlete Sydney Wooderson. Supposing the track to be in the North- East, we wondered if anyone could identify it.

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Boards stiff

3:22pm Thursday 21st March 2013

GETTING on midnight last Thursday, though high noon in New Zealand, the Squire of Ravensworth could be found reminiscing during Sky’s Test match commentary about his improbable days in pantomime.

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