the-times Stories - Bitter and Blue
Craic With Caulkin
He has the job that we have all dreamed about. To get a feel of what it was like reporting on the sport that we all love, our intrepid reporter Dan Williams talked to the Times' correspondent for the North East, Mr George Caulkin, about life writing about football, Sunderland and of course, our...
Poll watch
The Times did a neat piece on Graham Poll's Saturday afternoon, something I thought I'd post up considering there are a few of you over the last week who found the blog after googling for 'Graham Poll' (along with various descriptions of his character).
Rumour round-up
There have been a couple of stories floating around over the weekend suggesting a couple of arrivals into the club in January.Robert Koren of Lillstrom could be one player coming in, with it reported he and his advisors will head to Manchester this week, with former City player Uwe Rosler (now...
City 0 Watford 0
The evening started well with a trip to the Christmas market in Albert Square prior to the game and very nice it was too. Well fed and watered from the various stalls dotted around the market we then preceeded to the ground, only to get stuck in traffic and then encounter a flat tyre en...
Takeover speculation grows
Apologies for being a little late on this one, as I have been planning to post up on it for the past few days or so. There has been more talk of takeovers over the last week, resulting in the share price seeing a steep increase and news that the board were meeting yesterday to discuss the potential...
Dunne and Barton hit-out and challenge the squad
Ahead of the biggest game of the season later today and the newspapers this morning are hardly paining a picture of a happy camp at City at the moment.Joey Barton has been claiming that some of his teammates do not share his own ambitions, and talking to Sky Sports he said:"I want to win trophies,...
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