A New Season Begins After a long bleak winter, bereft of food, water and clothes to keep off the chill, football is back! Ok, maybe a slight exaggeration but weekends just aren’t the same without a bit of footy, are they? It’s been a whole six weeks since we visited Tynecastle for the Hearts v…
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Newcastle Blue Star, Scotswood Sports Centre – Hopper Tales #63
Strikes Are Back It’s been a little while but the train workers are striking again. The remedy for this for any groundhopper is to find a local club that you haven’t yet visited. For us, that just happens to be Newcastle Blue Star. Blue Star currently ply their trade in the Northern Football Alliance League…
Newcastle United, St. James’ Park – Hopper Tales #50
Options Narrowed This week, we had been planning to visit Seaham Red Star but with the weather all but wiping out football in the northeast, we decided it would be a good time to go and check out St. James’ Park, home of Newcastle United. Although we have been to Newcastle United before, we had…