Football Daily | North v South match rears its head with ‘overseas’ players

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It can’t have been a coincidence (it was) that the announcement of a resurrected North v South football match came so swiftly after Newcastle beat a team wearing red 2-1 in a Wembley cup final. That happens also to be exactly what transpired when they faced Arsenal in the 1932 FA Cup showpiece, a game that became known as the North v South Final and aroused such interest that even George V turned up. Indeed, the first fans from Tyneside arrived more than two days before kick-off, reaching Wembley just after midnight whereupon, according to the Guardian, they “made themselves comfortable for the night under a hedge in the Harrow Road”.

Catching fog in a net (Thursday’s Football Daily) is a lot easier than beating Real Madrid in Bigger Cup” – Janus.

Re: Colin Reed and Jim Arrowsmith’s recent letters on Thomas Tuchel’s artistic resemblances (Monday’s letters), Munch’s The Scream and Giacometti’s ‘Walking Man’ are both strong early contest entries. But if you pop some spectacles on Tuchel, he’s also half of Grant Wood’s ‘American Gothic’” – Conor Williams.

I think you will find that that it’s now Morris Dancing Daily who is much missed” – Harvey Mayne.