Oval memories by book or by Crook

11:30am Friday 22nd February 2008

ANOTHER 50-year anniversary, another golden goose. It's five decades today since Crook Town beat Corinthian Casuals at the Oval and if that's a case of what goes around comes around - as they may almost observe at the Oval - the bonus is that the elliptical route leads also to the Big Book of Football Champions.

Ashington to ashes – the Asda price

8:47am Tuesday 19th February 2008

THE lights went out on Friday at the ground where 10,000 crowds once watched Third Division (North) football, where Ashington Arrows raced Motherwell Monarchs and where many a melancholy miner had seen his pay packet go to the dogs.

	Ex-Quaker Len ends Middleton mission
	9:44am Fri 15 Feb 08
	LEN Green, one of those true grassroots sportsmen who deserve medals as big as a bin lid - and to whom, inexplicably, Her Majesty never seems to get round - stepped down this week after 57 years official involvement with Middleton St George Cricket Club.

Fed not so special as Trawler Boys sink Dunston’s Vase hopes

8:56am Tuesday 12th February 2008

LOWESTOFT'S in Suffolk, Britain's most easterly town and 280 miles from Dunston Fed, whom they entertained in the FA Carlsberg Vase fifth round on Saturday.

Blackhall v Dawdon: the greatest game

11:26am Friday 8th February 2008

TWO days after the Munich air disaster, fifty years ago today, football wasn't just numb, it was frozen, too.

Ref who sent off his chauffeur prompts enough tales for a book

9:25am Tuesday 5th February 2008

OVER in the boondocks - the Boro docks, anyway - they tell the story of the local league footballer, Sunday after the Saturday night before, who turns up 15 minutes late, comes on without permission and is properly cautioned by Ray Dowle, the referee.

Bishops stood in for Babes

10:20am Friday 1st February 2008

FIFTY years next Wednesday since the Munich air disaster, the accident which - as the Echo put it just the following day - claimed some of the cream of British soccer.

The day Greener’s Darlington made FA Cup clowns of Chelsea

9:46am Tuesday 29th January 2008

THE Quakers' finest hour, Darlington 4 Chelsea 1, was 50 years ago today. The cuttings, the programmes, the photographs, the whole pinch-yourself euphoria of it all still overflow the table in Ronnie and Margaret Greener's conservatory.

Man in chair urges mass participation

11:05am Friday 25th January 2008

THE Department for Culture, Media and Sport - not to mention political correctness - announced in November that Peter Rowley had been appointed chair of Sport England's North-East regional board.

Consett head south and prove they can swim with the Dolphins

10:00am Tuesday 22nd January 2008

POOLE is in Dorset, has a population of 141,000 and is said to be the second largest place in England - the largest Dudley, in Worcestershire - not to support a "professional" football team.

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