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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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 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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  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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  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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  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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  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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