Chris Galley

For reasons which will become obvious I have not been able to blog about this before, but on Wednesday I was in court. For the last three years I have been under threat of being sued for an accident that happened at Border Park Rugby Club. A spectator was injured watching the game, sustained some [...]

Given my taxi services to the Tory frontbench, I’ve been – let’s say – a bit more careful about keeping my car spick and span of late. One friend of mine saw it in the back of a regional TV news bulletin and rang me up: “Have you bought another new car?! It’s very shiny.” So last night [...]

Well it’s not been a good week for results, one way and the other. This was a strange game in many ways. It started an hour late since our visitors managed to get lost (this tends to happen to youngsters when they get to Kielder’s mobile phone reception-less zone!), so it was almost dark when the [...]

The  first game of the season had a particularly sombre start. All the teams present (and there were six of them) held a minute’s silence for Edward Robson, who died recently. He was a true pillar of the community and indeed a past President of Tynedale. The sheer number of players lined up was impressive. [...]