Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Two Blues


With no FA Cup tie within 80 miles I took a busman’s holiday to watch a Northern League game at Heritage Park home of Bishop Auckland, also known as the “two blues” for their halved dark blue and light blue shirts reflecting the club’s original formation by theological students from Oxford & Cambridge Universities studying at Auckland Castle; in a tight game today the two blues blew it, losing 2-1 to a Sunderland team that isn’t bottom of the league.

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