At last week’s presser, Neil Warnock dropped in that he occasionally rode through my village on his bike. I told him the woman who runs the village shop was a massive #Boro fan who loved him to bits. Today, he turned up unannounced and it absolutely made her day. Love that...
Scott Wilson
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Chief Sports Writer, The Northern Echo - focusing on coverage of Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. All thoughts and comments are my own.
- Everton annoyed Sissoko "went missing" earlier tonight. Not as annoyed as #NUFC were when he "went missing" for whole of last season though.
- Great Neil Warnock moment before the goal as Sam Morsy was booked. Screaming in an empty stadium - "Sam, go and ask him (a Forest player) if he's refereeing the game will you. Because the referee certainly f***ing isn't." #Boro 0-1 thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/19025999…
- 🇸🇪 Wonder how the Swedes feel about Isak’s decision to go on strike and massively reduce his ability to positively affect the last four matches. Bottom of their group. Still, he got what he wanted…𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗗 Förlust mot Schweiz i VM-kvalet 🇸🇪 0-2 🇨🇭
- ⚫️⚪️ Small group of #NUFC fans protesting against the club’s Saudi ownership outside St James’ Park today…
- ⚫️⚪️ Soundtrack of the train back home… Is this the way to Lithuania, Belarus and Romania, We’ll watch the lads in Transylvania, The Conference League awaits for me… #NUFC
- David Moyes reveals #SAFC agree to put the ball out in the 26th minute so John Terry could have his send off.
- In an era when footballers routinely get accused of not caring or failing to establish a bond with the club they represent, George Friend sits alone after what could have been his final #Boro game at the Riverside. He’s the type of person any fan should want at their club...
- ⚫️⚪️ What do you get if buy a Premier League football club? A post-match kickabout at St James’ Park… #NUFC
- Bad news for West Ham with Dimitri Payet wanting out. Judging by their valuations in window so far, they can expect a flurry of £1.5m bids..
- ⚫️⚪️ Tottenham ahead of #NUFC in the battle to sign James Maddison - with the Leicester midfielder preferring a move to London to a switch to the North-East. Suspect things might move fairly quickly once tonight's England game is out of the way...
- ⚫️⚪️ COMMENT: Man Utd paid £80m for Harry Maguire. £82m for Antony. £75m for Romelu Lukaku. In 2017. They wanted £14.5m to send Jesse Lingard on loan to #NUFC for four months. So it's time they got real about the value of Dan Ashworth... Read here...⬇️






