When I was a kid I delivered the North Staffordshire Evening Sentinel for a couple of years. Or to put it another way: I had a paper round. There were two compelling local football stories during my time and one compelling national story which became local – the kidnapped heiress Lesley Whittle was found [...]
EDDIE HOWE - NO RELATION, WELL, NOT BY BLOOD! You can tell who was your best coach in a 20-year playing career, when you take into consideration it was your worst spell. Mine came at Arsenal under Don Howe, who was without a shadow of a doubt the best coach I have [...]
I always say about that 1970 injury that cost me so very much, and hurt so much, it was like watching all of my toys being put under the tree the night before Christmas only to wake early to find Santa had not come. But as luck had it I found out there was no [...]
"He was an acquired taste, Alan Hudson. He was ahead of his time, for sure, and such savants often suffer as a consequence. However, by working tirelessly, showing his colours and winning matches, Huddy emphatically won Seattle over. This week he returns, and the occasion provides an opportunity to share what Hudson was all [...]
Extract from my latest Book… Exactly one year on from this most incredible and brutal killing of Lee Rigby it still shakes me to the core and every time I walk from the shop carrying my carrier bag or laptop bag I think of Lee. I look around me and [...]
