Backtrack

Seven aside

5:03am Saturday 23rd March 2019

LAST week’s column bid premature farewell to Bootham Crescent, York City’s much-loved home for 87 years but knew – of course – that we’d be back.

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Final whistle

5:03am Saturday 23rd March 2019

MICK HENDERSON, believed to be football’s oldest referee, is hanging up his whistle after 65 years in the middle.

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Custodial sentences

8:56am Saturday 16th March 2019

Two days after they committed Gordon Banks to safe keeping, Henry Nicholson – another goalkeeper, pretty good himself – was laid to rest.

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The long farewell

8:51am Saturday 16th March 2019

It was 2004 when York City first talked of upping sticks from Bootham Crescent, 2011 when finally they thought they’d be shifting.

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Simply the best - Willington FC dedicate match to club chairman Richard Tremewan

5:00am Saturday 9th March 2019

PRECEDED by a minute’s applause – an appreciation, not a memorial – and by a sort of air horn concerto, Willington FC dedicated their match last Friday to club chairman Richard Tremewan, the man who for three years has led their transformation.

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The 6ft 4ins rugby international who’s the driving force behind a rural bus service

5:00am Saturday 9th March 2019

BUS passive, as is its wont, the Wednesday column a few weeks back extolled the joys of the No 79 –the country bus – between Richmond and Barnard Castle.

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Clarty piece - Di Canio's Tyne-Wear derby suit now a museum exhibit

5:00am Saturday 2nd March 2019

IT may be the most famous streak – OK, the most famous fully clothed streak – in football history.

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Off the rails - Mike takes the branch line to Bishop and then the No 6 bus...

5:00am Saturday 2nd March 2019

THE Railroad to Wembley has looked like it was heading in the wrong direction for some time now. Last Saturday, there not having been trains to West Auckland since 1962, we took the branch line to Bishop and then the No 6 bus, instead.

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Icon if you con, the column stops where buses no longer travel

5:00am Sunday 24th February 2019

WYLAM railway station is on what’s now marketed as the Hadrian’s Wall Country line, from Newcastle to Carlisle. Ryton and Crawcrook Albion football ground is a 25-minute walk away but, regrettably, in the opposite direction from that great Roman battlement.

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Henry, No 1 - memories of raggy-arsed roamings with Henry Nicholson

5:00am Saturday 23rd February 2019

HENRY Nicholson was a friend since the two of us were we’ans, and even then he was much the better goalkeeper. Almost everyone, come to think, was a better goalkeeper than I was.

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All Greek….? Darlington fans have a new flag with a Latin motto

5:00am Saturday 23rd February 2019

CULTURED to a man, Darlington fans have a new flag – unveiled at Blyth Spartans a fortnight back – with the Latin motto “Semper biberint.”

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Inside story

5:01am Saturday 16th February 2019

NONE who follows Newcastle United could ever forget February 5 1972, the day that Hereford United, of the Southern League, beat the first division Magpies in an FA Cup third round replay. The March issue of The Oldie magazine updates the story.

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The great escaper - Hebburn the next stop on the Railroad to Wembley

5:00am Saturday 16th February 2019

THE Railroad to Wembley in 2018-19 has been a course of recurring disappointment, barely offering anxious adventurers the chance to cross the Tees.

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Posh comes to shove - the uncharted territory of the St James’ Park executive boxes

5:00am Saturday 9th February 2019

AS unaccustomed as are Newcastle United to the last 16 of the FA Cup, so are the St James’ Park executive boxes uncharted territory to a common or garden column like this.

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Every picture...

5:02am Saturday 9th February 2019

AT Heritage Park, appropriately named, Bishop Auckland FC last week opened a permanent photographic exhibition showcasing the club’s uniquely successful history.

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Mike Amos: Saluting John Topping’s 25 years service to Durham FA

5:00am Saturday 2nd February 2019

SLIGHTLY delayed because the principal guest had undergone thyroid surgery – “they couldn’t find anyone willing to cut my throat,” he says – a dinner the other night saluted John Topping’s 25 years service to Durham FA, the last 22 as company secretary.

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Backtrack: The wizard of Oz - when Aussie Matthews took ten wickets

5:00am Sunday 27th January 2019

WHICKHAM’S windy, almost always is. “Aa’m not gannin’ oot there, aa’ll get blarn away,” says an elderly lady before the gusty, gutsy Ebac Northern League game with Consett.

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Gary Forrest, the West Auckland manager behind Newcastle’s tallest building

5:00am Saturday 26th January 2019

THIS is the story of Gary Forrest, chairman of a group of companies recently valued at £1.2bn and manager of West Auckland football club, going OK but worth a few bob less.

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Diving licence?

5:02am Saturday 19th January 2019

HITHERTO rather short of memories of the golden age, Bishop Auckland FC’s handsome new stadium will soon be adorned with 17 large photographs of the Two Blues unparalleled purple patch.

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Former police inspector Gordon Bacon on honorary degree: 'I had a bit of a wobble on'

5:00am Saturday 19th January 2019

FORMER police inspector Gordon Bacon was appointed OBE in 1998, services to humanitarian relief, last week received an honorary MA degree from Durham University.

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