Seven months ago on what was an uncharacteristically sunny evening in Geordie land, I walked along the bank of the River Tyne. I started off under the metro bridge, which…

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Even though a proud Yorkie, Newcastle were my club and nothing in life’s rule book said the Fog on the Tyne couldn’t be mine all mine as well.

Week after week I hear the mention of Title Challenge, Champions League and Cup runs (this is where I normally go and make the tea).

Realised that they wanted me to put in, this was about 1981, they wanted me to put half a million pound in the club. Which at the time was a fortune and for that they were going to make me an honorary board member with no decisions and no say.