St James’ Park, three hours before kick-off. “We have to be in for 1.20pm, but I like to take in what’s going on around the ground and visualise what part I’m going to play,” the winger says. “I’ve always supported Newcastle, Sam and Jordan, my sons, are season ticket holders, but I’ve worked here 11 years and watched 10 minutes …
Wasps 27 Newcastle Falcons 24 Lee Blackett heaped praise on veteran fly-half Jimmy Gopperth after the 38-year-old kicked Wasps to a crucial win against Newcastle to keep their play-off hopes alive. Both teams scored three tries apiece as Falcons hooker George McGuigan crossed for a hat-trick in vein, whilst Dan Robson, Joe Launchbury and Tom West dotted down for Wasps. …
“I remember thinking, as I watched Alf Ramsey’s amazing self-restraint during the celebrations, ‘Enjoy it, Alf — because it doesn’t get any better than this’.” Those were the prophetic words of Chelsea great Peter Osgood, who would start his England career four years after the World Cup success of 1966. “It’s the one thing I look back on in my …
