Dolphin Hotel

There was an unintentional increase in training yesterday, a 12.5 kilometre (exercise) bike ride in the morning followed by a 4.3 mile run a...

Some of the players for July 9th, including Metro Radio's Joe Daunt (3rd left) and Richard Mason of the Northern Echo (2nd from the rig...

Helped by a pair of brand new running shoes and my first pair of football boots since I was twelve years old (and doesn't that show ev...

Full details on July 9th's Northern Leagues United event are now online here. If you can't make it to Birtley on the day, there...

I'm still not sure what possessed me to say 'Yes', but on July 9th, sometime between the hours of 1 and 3pm, I'll be turning...

After a lot of toing and froing it was the last-minute opinion polls that finally made up my mind. 68% plan to vote no , says this morning...

Speaking of Northern League Day, here's a piece I wrote for In Bed With Maradona on the importance of the world's second oldest foo...

During my hiatus from blogging on here, Dolphin Hotel's fifth - and my thirty fifth - birthday passed unremarked last Thursday. With No...

Connected with Northern League Day, a piece on three of the League's best players, Whitley Bay's Lee Kerr, Ashington's ex-Newca...

With one thing and another, I haven't had much time to write on here lately. Mostly, though, I've been busy with the first ever Nor...