(25 Nov 2014, 11:56 pm)Andreos1 wrote Aye, Steve Sutton was the young understudy at the time. When Doug Weatherall moved on (maybe to the echo), Sutton got the main job.
I never really bothered with the echo until 96ish and even then, it was a rare read.
The Tyneside routes stayed true in the paper I read
When I lived in Durham I read both as Durham was pretty close to a 50/50 in terms of NUFC/SAFC support...
On a weekend I would get The Chronicle on Saturday Evening and The Football Echo on a Sunday Morning...
On a morning I read The Sun, we got that delivered, but I enjoyed reading The Daily Sport from time to time...
Ok, truth be told, I never read the sport, I looked at the pictures