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When cups runneth over: my fourth Wembley date with Sunderland

Salut! regulars know I spare them as much as humanly possible contact with my passion for the ruffian-like sport of football. This weekend is different, as I explained to ESPN's worldwide audience ...

In 1973, as every schoolboy and these days a good many schoolgirls ought to know, Sunderland defied great odds to win the FA Cup as a club from a division one below the top flight, confronting then-mighty Leeds United.

British Sikhs in no mood to forget Amritsar, 1919 or 1984

Picture from the collections of The National Archives

Here's a piece of mine that appears in today's editions of The National, Abu Dhabi. It is already online at http://www.thenational.ae/world/south-asia/massacre-questions-that-refuse-to-die#full ...

One year ago today, David Cameron marked the first visit by a sitting British prime minister to the holiest Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple at Amritsar in Indian Punjab, by endorsing Winston Churchill’s condemnation of a “deeply shameful” event in colonial history.

Lisbon: faded charm defeats the crisis

Somewhere between the waterfront Praça do Comércio and the hotel, behind the Plaça do Rossio in Lisbon, we stumbled across Tuna ForTuna, the band of the Nova School of Business and Economics.

Mallard: spotted at last in Shildon, cradle of the railways

My trainspotting era, you will be relieved to hear, ended rather a long time ago. Long enough for me to have forgotten which "streak", as the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) A4 locomotives were affectionately known, passed through Shildon station.