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Better off choosing From Langley Park to MemphisIt's strongly associated with the city of Newcastle not Durham so has the feel of 'let's pick a motivating local song people have heard of'. There's probably nothing similar they could have used but it always stirs the pedant in me.
It's a song about a charabanc trip from Balmbras Music Hall in Newcastle Cloth Market to the Blaydon Races, which were held on an island in the Tyne which was neither Northumberland nor Durham and therefore outside the jurisdiction of the Constables of those counties and rife with illegal betting.
I thought it was around the area on which the Stella Haugh power station was built which was on the Blaydon (Durham) side of the river (pretty much opposite the Newburn Bridge). Is there a map that shows the island where it was held?
A canny few. Off the top of my head, scotty, coughlin and raine for startersAren't some of the players Sunderland fans?
They don't seem to mind singing this song.
Most of the local ones are: Borthwick, Coughlin, Raine, Potts, Gibson, McKinney (I assume, Sunderland born). Bushnell is a QPR fan.Aren't some of the players Sunderland fans?
They don't seem to mind singing this song.
Aren't some of the players Sunderland fans?
They don't seem to mind singing this song.
Over time the squad has been filled* with more Sunderland than Newcastle.
*it feels that way, I could be talking absolute shite here like.
Great find, thanks for that, seems the island is no more. I briefly worked on the Stella Haugh Ind Estate so that little bit of history is interesting.More info here. I really must get a life
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Home AND away!After the close of play I walked round the back of the Don Robson Stand and you could hear the players belting the Blaydon Races out. They were making one hell of a racket. Hopefully it will be heard numerous times before the end of the season.
Any footy tops over the four days or club crests on t shirts?
Any sign of a Dukla Prague away kitsaw a leeds and harrogate shirt and 2 sunderland shirts.
Any sign of a Dukla Prague away kit![]()
Any sign of a Dukla Prague away kit![]()