My article on Jeff Stelling helped set this in motion NUFC NUFC
One of the greatest footballers ever to wear the Black and White, Hughie Gallacher, committed suicide on a railway line in Low Fell back in 1957.
Everyone has a view on this one and I hear people say “they are so well paid how can they have issues.”Recently, a student whom I teach and who is shortly off to University, gave me a present and a card which ends with ‘P.S. keep posting your articles”These particular articles that The Mag published which were written by me, are all out there online, Manchester badges, Bramley Moore Dock, the lack of diversity at Crystal Palace, all issues that I believe are curtain raisers for discussion.
I am open to the youngsters I work with, but that also means open to my employers who I know monitor social media activity, so I have to be very aware of what I put down in writing. I very rarely post on twitter for that very reason. In Black History Month we looked at the first black footballers through to the modern black footballers and how some of them contribute back to their communities where their families originated.