100-0: Sunderland-Newcastle/Newcastle-Sunderland

by Tim Glynne-Jones, Tim Brooks

North-east giants. Detested opponents. League champions six times. 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. Fairs Cup winners in 1969. A full 16 seasons in Europe. 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.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published December 4, 2014

About the author

Tim has been writing professionally since 1985, when he became a wide-eyed journalist on a music magazine. He went on to work for various consumer magazines, including More, Auto Express, Top Gear and Match of the Day, which he launched as editor in 1996. He wrote his first book, A Game of Two Halves - Football Yesterday and Today, in 2002 and has since written over 30 non-fiction titles on everything from football to the English language. In 2018 he self-published Word of the Week: Volume One, his first foray into self-publishing.