A Geordie In Girona

Category: Sport

  • Buffoonery, self-doubt and failure – time to end Newcastle’s Wembley hoodoo

    It’s been 70 years – yes that’s right 70 years! – since Newcastle United last won a domestic trophy. The Magpies did famously win the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969 – the forerunner to the Europa League – but if we want to witness the last time a Newcastle team held aloft a domestic trophy…

  • Football superstitions – one for sorrow, two for joy

    There is a well-known nursery rhyme related to magpies that goes ‘One for sorrow, two for joy’. As a life-long Newcastle United fan, whose nickname is the Magpies, this rhyme takes on special significance. If this black and white bird were to cross my path on match days, it could have serious repercussions. Seeing two…

  • Running – a force for good in life

    Ever since I was at school I had always shown a keen interest in running. My long strong legs and a decent set of lungs meant that I could have been quite a good runner if I had actually applied myself. Unfortunately the temptations that came with being a teenager were too great to resist…

  • The Corona virus and football – pork scratchings and silver linings

    It’s Saturday and that can only mean one thing. It’s match day! So it’s time to don those lucky underpants (the ones you wear every week to watch your team get beat again), get the ironing board out to flatten the crinkles in your football top, and put your scarf on with your team’s colours.…