Sunderland-Newcastle / Newcastle-Sunderland

Football's ultimate rivalries -- in a book of two halves. Is the final score Sunderland 100 Newcastle 0? Or Newcastle 100 Sunderland 0?
     Sunderland Newcastle. Newcastle Sunderland. North-east giants. Detested opponents.

     Sunderland: League champions six times. Newcastle: four. Could well stay that way! 1-0 Sunderland.

     As for that 1973 FA Cup final, beating Leeds, Jim Montgomery's save... 1955 is a long time ago now, eh?. 2-0 Sunderland.

     Three derby wins in a row! What was that scoreline again? 3-0 Sunderland.

     You get the picture. But there are two sides to every story.

     Newcastle: Fairs Cup winners in 1969. A full 16 seasons in Europe. Sunderland: not so well travelled, are we? 1-0 Newcastle.

     St. James' Park. Centre of the city. The Stadium of Light? Pah! 2-0 Newcastle.

     Jackie Milburn. Kevin Keegan. Alan Shearer. Marco Gabbiadini? 3-0 Newcastle.

     You decide.

TIM GLYNNE-JONES and WILL BROOKS worked together at Match of the Day magazine, where Tim was editor for five years, and later on the internet football community MyFootballClub.co.uk, which Will founded in 2007. Will now works as a copywriter and Tim is a journalist, copywriter and author, with more than twenty non-fiction books to his name on subjects as diverse as football and grammar.