The North's Sporting Life ; All This Week We Have Been Celebrating the Journal's 50,000th Issue. Alastair Gilmour Wraps Up His Appraisal of Times Past with a Look at North East Sport.
The Journal › September 13, 2008
Linked as:
Summary
AREVIEW of the first 50,000 issues of The Journal would not be complete without our sporting highlights. Thin on the ground in recent years they may be, but there has been plenty to shout about in our 176-year history - from FA Cup runs to the Blaydon Races and including rowing champion Harry Clasper, the shooting star that was Jackie Milburn and the social occasion of The Pitmen's Derby.
Times have changed since Alf Common became the first pounds 1,000 footballer on transferring from Sunderland to Middlesbrough in 1905, but who could forget Bob Stokoe's jig when his underdog Sunderland side beat Leeds United in the 1973 FA Cup final? Then there was Brendan Foster's world record in the 3,000 metres at Gateshead Stadium on August 3, 1974.See the full content of this document
Extract
The North's Sporting Life ; All This Week We Have Been Celebrating the Journal's 50,000th Issue. Alastair Gilmour Wraps Up His Appraisal of Times Past with a Look at North East Sport.
And, those mad three weeks in July and August 1985 when Steve Cram broke no fewer than three world records in the 1,500 metres in Nice, the mile (Oslo) and 2,000 metres (Budapest).
Sports headline...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
