Monday, 3 February 2025

ALAN SHOULDER RIP 🪦

 Posted ‘high noon bells 🔔’ Munday 3rd February 2025



More very sad news that former Toon centre forward Alan Shoulder haz passed away reaches us!

Believe it or not, he worked doon the pit at Blyth and played for them in their famous FA Cup run of 1978, when Northern Leegue Blyth reached the 5th roond of the FA Cup! (losin' narrowly to Wrexham in a replay at SJP in front of more than 42,000!---Includin 'not so little old me'!)



After that he signed for NUFC for a reported £20,000 and scored a total of  38 goals in 127 appearances for us!



I saw hiz forst ever goal in a Toon top at Fulim when NUFC won 3-1 in 1978– We were late to the game and missed THREE orly goals in the forst half!—-But we DID see Alan Shoulder’s goal in the second half!

We missed the kick off coz we were in a boozer and didn’t realise that the groond woz a canny way away!

We had a few extra ‘Arthur’s’ (Arthur Scargills=gargels=pints) named after the former miners leader in the 1970s, and of course, az mentioned, incidentally, Alan worked doon the mines when he played for The Spartans!

I have ‘dug up’ the match report on that game which woz mee ‘half century’ of groonds visited watchin The Toon! (ground number 50)

See below for the match report of the game 47 years ago!


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