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First all welded bridge in Britain is the road bridge over the defunct railway tracks ( now removed) between Newport Bridge and Portrack roundabout. Built in 1934

Is there 2 world cups next year, there is is another in Qatar

Was there a pitch invasion during that game , or was it because the club allowed young fans to sit on the perimeter track as there was over 40000 in the ground ? The only incursions on the pitch was after the game when the wall in the North Stand collapsed.

Just bought them with HSBC. Santander refused three times even though I had just used it to buy a pass for tonight

I think it was an evening kick off , because of the race meeting nearby. When the Belle Vue gates weren’t open as the race meeting was ending, a few of the racegoers lifted the double gates off their hinges and laid them on the ground and just walked in. Jimmy Irvine scored the other goal, in...

Next week we were away to league leaders Manchester City where we lost 3-1, Jim Townsend scoring. At least we had a goal to cheer in this game, even though it was only a consolation.

I was

In the late 1950’s there was a school dentist in the clock tower of Whinney Banks school on Acklam Road. Horrible smell of gas as you entered the tower and getting worse as you climbed the stone staircase. That’s where the butchery started. Put me off going to the dentist until I had to go when...

I enrolled in the Ayresome Angels in the function room on Acklam Road opposite the Coronation which was later to become Trenchers. This was long before Woodland Road, and I think my membership number was 37. I was about 16 at the time and seem to recall that might have been where I had my second...