Blyth Spartans are the only tonic
The bottom fell out of North East football over the weekend, like your guts after 12 pints of lager, two cheeky Vimtos and a dodgy back street curry. There was a tonic to our ills, though, and it came in the unlikely form of Blyth Spartans.
As Newcastle and Sunderland both fell back into the bottom three with frustrating defeats to Fulham and Portsmouth, the part-timers from Blyth were writing a new chapter in the club's FA Cup history with a sensational 3-1 win over Shrewsbury Town.
William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is a comedy - well it's vaguely amusing which is apparently enough when good old Will is concerned - but Blyth's version was a classic FA Cup tale, full of action, drama and, of course, romance. This was a giant killing Jack himself would have been proud of.
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