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Aspiring stuntmen learn to dive as part of their quest to be included on the British Stunt Register.

Aspiring stuntmen learn to dive as part of their quest to be included on the British Stunt Register.

My eye was drawn to a headline in the local paper, “Elderly man knocked down by car”. Even by Aberdeen standards, it was a pretty slow news day, but what grabbed my attention was the fact that the “elderly” man was my junior by eight years. Why was it necessary to describe the unfortunate chap as elderly at all? If he’d been 20 years younger would the headline have been, “Middle aged man knocked down by car”? It was written to give the impression of a poor old codger who shouldn...

“Another slice of cake, old chap?” The story of Sunderland’s double international, Willie Watson Share this story Photo by Barratts/PA Images via Getty Images Its 4am and freezing. I am tip toeing downstairs so as not to wake the rest of the house. England are playing India in the first test - compulsive viewing nurtured by my Dad, who was blind from the time I was 12 years old. Dad loved listening to the cricket on the radio, and though he moaned big time about Johnners, Blofeld and Tre...

Club historian Rob Mason pays tribute. We were saddened to learn of the death of former Sunderland coach John Mortimore who has passed away at the age of 86. Born in Farnborough, Mortimore was capped by England at youth and amateur level. He began with Woking (where his brother Charlie was the star centre forward) and also played for Aldershot as an amateur before 279 games over a decade as centre-half with Chelsea from 1956-65. The first of two appearances at Sunderland saw him play in the c...