North East Uncategorised News

Issue 96

It is 50 years in October since I attended my first Newcastle United fixture with my Dad in the ‘new’ East Stand, at home to Chelsea. A couple of years ago I searched out the programme & it now sits in a frame on my kitchen wall alongside the programme from the Champions League game at home to Barcelona in 1997 which was the day my daughter, Sophie, was born. It was quite an eventful & memorable day that one! I remember telling the midwife to get a move on as kick off was looming, even though it was still twelve hours away. Fortunately Sophie did as she was told & entered the world just shy of midday, a good seven hours before kick-off which gave me time to go home, get changed & call into the hospital to see her again & walk across Leazes Park to the match.…