This is the first part of a series covering the big rivers of North East England, namely the Rivers Wear, Tees and Tyne.
I start with the River Wear.
The River Wear is 60 miles long, rising in the East Pennines near Wearhead, and reaches the North Sea at Sunderland. The mouth of the river is quite distinctive, [...]
The day started with all of the North East sides still in the relegation mire. Sunderland were still in the driving seat, 2 points ahead of a relegation spot with little Hull City sandwiched in between. Newcastle and Boro were in the relegation zone. Newcastle basically only needed a point and were fairly certain that [...]
Here’s an interesting one for you. I got this passed onto me by a friend at work. He’d been raving about it and promised to lend it to me when he finished reading it, and he eventually brought it in for me to look at. I didn’t really know what to expect, but I was [...]
Went to the Everton game yesterday hoping for an improvement on the debacle that was West Brom. What I saw was a squad of players who apparently didn’t really care. There was no fight, no guts, no application and no belief. They didn’t seem to be bothered about trying to score (1 header on target [...]
Since I last posted on the subject of North East Football, things haven’t got any better for the big three, in fact they’ve got a lot worse. There are now only 4 games left until the end of the season and the prospects look dire for Middlesbrough, Newcastle and Sunderland. The unthinkable is about to [...]
