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I wish I could remember the opponent but I think it was in the first season following relegation under Southgate when our players had the last two or three touches before an own goal scored by Hoyte. Not so comical at the time!

If you'd projected that man's career trajectory in, say, 1997, Just Eat adverts and Swansea City FC would more than likely have not featured in your thoughts.

Players who do well have in recent years caught the attention of Premier League clubs. Even players who don't necessarily catch the headlines are taken seriously enough to make the move up. Boro don't have a bonkers budget which means that if you can establish yourself in the team, you'll stay...

Even though it's Sunderland, all I can say is good luck because if this three up/down carousel happens again then it just makes the sporting concept of promotion unbearable; a year of hopelessness in order to obtain money that will in the main be hoovered up in player wages of people who will be...

I might sound really stupid here but I definitely saw a man wearing the new training kit a few days ago, in Tyneside, walking along to a pitch for coaching a kid's team. Driving along I said to myself that I'd only seen that grey top in the press photos with Edwards and this guy definitely had...

Vaccination scars and dental work would be valid proof, but in a largely uneducated agricultural society you'd not get anywhere talking about things like that. I'd go and find a monastery for a quiet life 500 years ago and... Oh, wait.

I saw him as a support act once and somebody stood near me said that having him support you is like bringing an ugly mate when you're on the pull.

It'll be just the same as when you drive past a dodgy car dealer saying 'Under new management' outside. The person who has been prosecuted for whatever hands the business over to a brother, Aunty Brenda or a friend in name but still runs the show on a day to day basis.

This is the way it works when we support a club who have almost a decade between their current balance sheet and their last parachute payment. Good luck to the young players whether they stay to try and follow Hackney's path or go to what is obviously a much bigger operation.

I think that this is probably the reason why so many don't sing, if they've been given specific instructions and are going over them again and again in their head.

No new manager can beat the ultimate wow moment of Jason Euell, so let's not set Mr Edwards up to fail with ridiculous expectations.

Saying that someone has missed a penalty when the keeper saved it. Either praise the ability to save a penalty kick or say that the attacker failed to score; miss implies that it's ballooned past the bar or post and headed into the stand.

It might be like one of those early morning lessons at secondary school when a teacher's off, you collectively realise that if you just keep a lid on things you're going to get an hour to yourself, hoping against hope that someone doesn't come in with actual work for you to do while they're...

This could be a good plot for a football movie. A dashing young manager, fiery on the touchline, dashing for the ladies and a sign of English football evolving, is actually just a mouthpiece for a bloke who makes the decisions from home, monitoring cameras during training sessions and feeding...

Nobody, which says a lot about my hopeful optimism last summer! I would definitely feel frustrated if Conway left as he's young, capable of scoring and would work well with another goalscorer in the squad. If Hackney left then it'll be for something to get his teeth into and I wish him well.