Well, that was a fun weekend of sport, wasn’t it? The perfect start with three much-needed points for Newcastle United; an action-packed Saturday as my nephew Jack Gibson backed Noble…
As a long-term supporter of Newcastle United, I don’t expect much. Why would I, having witnessed precisely no top-flight honours in 50-plus years of, literally and metaphorically, cheering on the…
By the end of this week, the whole world and his granny will have delivered their verdict on the short-lived European Super League. The views I expressed on Tuesday, when…
Among the countless placards, banners and bedsheets brandished since Sunday. to protest against the so-called European Super League. Which is in truth a logical extension of the so-called European Champions…
There it was this morning, a solitary magpie, perched in a tree a few yards from my mother’s kitchen window. Was that an omen, with the Mags scheduled next weekend…
Humour can be a wonderful solace in stressful times. And, by jingo, life tends to be pretty stressful for most proper football supporters. Forget the so-called fans who attach themselves…
The year 1936 was memorable for many reasons: the Berlin Olympics, with Jesse Owens winning four athletics gold medals while Adolf Hitler’s theory of Aryan supremacy took a hell of…
If his oft-quoted phrase on the relative importance of football is to be taken literally, the remarkable Bill Shankly would undoubtedly have read the daily papers from back to front….
A long, long time ago, an old geography teacher asked the class why people went to football matches. He listened to our predictable answers and then delivered his verdict: “Supporters…
Welcome back to the world’s greatest football competition (copyright Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC and any other pundit/patsy with a financial stake in boosting this overblown league). Last night brought…
