(31 Dec 2013, 3:03 pm)fozzovmurton wrote This last weekend saw the end of a tradition for thousands past and present, the Football Echo ceased to exist in printed form, in favour of going digital...

Football Fans out there will know what the Footy Ecka meant to us fans, I remember as a boy, being bribed by my granddad to walk from Roker Park(I was lazy and always wanted to get the bus, lol) to the Town with a promise to get me a copy and we would always catch one of the first deliveries and I went on to get it for donkeys year.

It is a shame really, but with the dawn of the Internet, Social Media, Smartphones/Tablets and rolling news on Sky Sports the Echo was always going to decline and eventually pulled.

It was always The Pink for me (Evening Chronicle/Tyneside bias) and that went by the wayside years ago.
www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/30/mirror.pressandpublishing