The Return Of Lasagna-gate

Many Spurs fans will nod sagely at the amazing row which has broken out in the U.S, as New York State Attorney General and candidate for Governor Andrew Cuomo has become embroiled in a sticky situation involving Lasagna.The dish is reportedly Cuomo's favorite. His partner Sandra Lee, a TV host, apparently makes it with tinned tomato soup and cottage cheese - what some may call an unusual choice of ingredients. On hearing of this, Cuomo's mother weighed into the debate, and unwittingly damaged her son's campaign by criticising his wife's culinary skills. Matilda Cuomo...
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The Wednesday Of Discontent

On Wednesday 23 Feb 1972, the schools and workplaces of the city of Sheffield could be said to have undergone the first outbreak of mass truancy they had ever experienced.This was a period of deep social unrest in Britain: only 3 weeks earlier, the IRA, immediately following Bloody...
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The First Vuvuzela in Darlington

I was actually sitting on the toilet when I heard it.At first, I imagined that my level of concentration had caused me to emit the kind of noise occasionally heard in football ground toilets (and no I don't mean 'They were effin' shite.')But this wasn't the case.If the World Cup...
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Smells Like Teen Linament

It's getting cold again. Today was the first example of the kind of pre-winter damp fug that envelopes the north east in October and doesn't let go until around May: then, after the briefest flicker, resumes its place, sitting like a fat Cheshire cat on the skyline. Only without...
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Black And White All Over

Rejoice Geordies worldwide, for your beloved team have once again attained the promised land of the Premiership.Now the fun begins.I don't mean the beginning of another financial catastrophe, or even the inevitable 0-1 loss at home to Blackpool on a wet Monday night in November.No,...
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League Ladders

As the Summer yawns before us (small matter of the World Cup notwithstanding) in an arid chasm of football-less-ness, any sane person has one of three responses:1) Play golf2) Go to the pub3)...er, that's itOtherwise there is seemingly no alternative to a diet of reality-TV with...
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Feet Of Clay

This is part of what remains of Feethams, former home to Darlington FC: they as of last month a former Football League team.Accessible only by trespassing over a disused bridge and down potholed path strewn with broken glass and urban detritus, it's a metaphor for the demise of the...
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