• Boxing Day Memories.
    Half a crown inside my pocket Black n white scarf wrapped round my throat Wearing a pair of my brothers trousers And another brothers coat. I got that half crown at Christmas Tips from my paper round Jumped on the tram at Gateshead And crossed the Tyne up to the ground. I’ll never forget that […]
  • Unreliable (club) source.
    The ‘club source’ has been at it again But I doubt if a word is true He is in today’s ‘Sunday People’ With an ‘exclusive’ just for you. The ‘club source’ who is now ‘close to Ashley’ Say’s none of our young stars are for sale The owner is desperate to keep them The ‘club […]
  • 60s Revisited.
    The Animals singing ‘Gonna send you back to Walker’ Inside the smokey Club a Go-Go With buses lined up on Gallowgate And just about to go go. The clocks were striking midnight As we headed South across the Tyne Young Bobby Moncur was our skipper then And big Wyn Davies led the line. A Nineteen […]
  • Overated…..Overdrawn.
    I’m a ex premiership footballer Who’s now on skid row But just how I arrived here I really dont know. Seventy Five grand a week When I played for the Mags Luxury appartments and a selection of jags. Down in the Bigg Market Ordering crates of champagne To help drown my sorrows When the TOON […]
  • Who are you ??
    Who is this ‘Club Insider’ Who appears to know so much This faceless ‘Club Insider’ Who keeps all of us readers in touch. Their names are a closely guarded secret Just a ‘Someone who is close to the club’ But I suspect it’s some bloke down the chippy Or some geezer who drinks in their […]