http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/ The Northern Echo /sport/columnists/backtrack/ en-gb Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:25:26 +0100 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:25:26 +0100 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/images/850268/?type=rsslogo http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/ http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4477900.I_don___t_like_cricket__I_love_it/?ref=rss ONE singer one song, David Walsh in Redcar draws attention to a Sunday Times feature on what’s perhaps unsurprisingly said to be the first pop music album devoted entirely to cricket. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:03:57 +0100 c3a24b1aa011520746ec6a13d8c62f33 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4475260.No_place_like_home_for_Nick/?ref=rss NIGEL Gates, North-East lad but world traveller, will be back in the UK tonight on the trail of a global award for creating change through sport. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:02:04 +0100 d66e1ad2460d5bc825f7449b7fd3c2cf http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4465626.Get_Carter_at_Newcastle/?ref=rss AS if ignominy could further be aggravated, Magpies fans will have been discomforted not only to see Roker Park win the 2.35 at Newcastle’s big race meeting on Saturday – the 9-1 odds exactly the same as Sunderland’s hitherto biggest win on Tyneside, December 5, 1908 – but that Horatio Carter won the 3.45 event at 11-4. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:18:04 +0100 66586eb4fa10249f60003641331f2db0 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4449689.Sad_loss_of_England___s____greatest_woman_bowler___/?ref=rss NORMA SHAW, perhaps the most successful North-East sportsperson of all time – certainly the most successful woman – has died suddenly. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:01:17 +0100 63bf1e70333644cb968c98c21136e797 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4440364.Grace___s_dismissal_gives_Spout_House_another_claim_to_fame/?ref=rss SELDOM far from these Ionic columns, Spout House Cricket Club made a twopage debut in Saturday’s Guardian. Thus was a remarkable statistic revealed about the man reckoned England’s greatest cricketer. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:50:03 +0100 b8c45c1e0084c70b102913637201dca2 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4437002.Villagers_left_Coundon_their_trophies/?ref=rss THE village of Coundon, it is soberly supposed, once had more pubs per head than anywhere else in the kingdom. After a couple, they insist that it used to be in the Guinness Book, After one or two more, they start naming them. Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:51:56 +0100 dff7254249ca2889f06a74c72a35f52c http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4427267.Spout___s_posh_new_House/?ref=rss JUST when it seemed that they wouldn’t leave their little wooden hut for anyone, our friends at Spout House Cricket Club finally have their new pavilion, inaugurated last week. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:22:28 +0100 629b4ab2caed50ccd1d442d63e8c543a http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4424045.Amble_Angus_still_a_vintage_Claret/?ref=rss WARKWORTH’S a lovely little place on the Northumberland coast, roughly between Tyne and Tweed. The Coquet flows frisky; the great castle stands, still. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:42:21 +0100 cb0606ba22257432c7f2d38b74e008ca http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4413194.Annual_escape_committee_returns_to_land_of_Scotch_pies/?ref=rss FAIR play to the Germans, they gave us the wonderful word schadenfreude, a masterpiece of economy which the English more loosely translate as “taking pleasure at others’ misfortunes”. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:38:19 +0100 e8aba0c6f89f0b1e1fbf2c8d7efac418 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4408153.Thrown_to_the_Wolves/?ref=rss ON this day precisely 125 years ago, around 20 men attended a meeting unanimously to form Wolviston Cricket Club. Sat, 30 May 2009 08:57:23 +0100 4ed55501245a2880eab6fe2f4d703f17