A year in the life of Backtrack

9:41am Friday 19th December 2008

The journalistic equivalent of Last of the Summer Wine – Compo, probably – the Backtrack column has been roaming the highways and byways of North-East sport for 23 years.

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Manuel labour of the Crook crimper

9:06am Tuesday 16th December 2008

A wonderful picture gallery of his home town and of its celebrated football club, Michael Manuel’s DVD and CD on the history of Crook – on and off the playing field – was launched on Saturday night.

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Life of Brian is rewarded

10:44am Friday 12th December 2008

IF NOT quite a record then a highly unusual footnote, Durham County Cricket Club scorer and archivist Brian Hunt has been awarded a testimonial year by the club.

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The Tash force is not Dunn yet

9:54am Friday 28th November 2008

ON the grounds that you have to be up early to catch Harry Dunn, it’s 8.30am and we’re sitting in the Rio Bar in Bishop Auckland: eating bacon sandwiches, chewing the fat.

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Lessons in the art of scoffing

10:44am Tuesday 25th November 2008

IT may not quite have been a case of who ate all the pies, but none had much doubt who was responsible when the bairns in the Durham v Northumberland schoolboys match went hungry after the game.

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Fed drink deep in raid on drey

11:06am Tuesday 18th November 2008

JUST as it is nearimpossible to think of Morecambe without thinking of Eric, so it’s hard to imagine Formby without recalling George, the man who gave us Mr Wu.

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Ken for all seasons

9:00am Friday 14th November 2008

FIFTY years after first he took strike, the remarkable Ken Thwaites – cricketer, footballer, greyhound breeder, racehorse trainer, head teacher, Methodist church organist and occasional betting man – is taking a rain check on retirement.

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