'The demand for it is huge... There isn't anything like this in the North East'
Former England and Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer told #BBCBreakfast about the next ambition for the Centre he created 20 years ago to help people with complex disabilities and their families
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Thank you, Tripps 🖤🤍
After four and a half years of incredible service to Newcastle United, we can confirm that Kieran Trippier will leave the club this summer when his contract expires.
Kieran arrived in January 2022 with the club in the relegation zone and played a crucial role as he went on to lift the club’s first domestic trophy in 70 years.
❤️ Eddie Howe on his late mother, Anne Howe.
🗣️ “My mum had five children. I was the fourth. Very humble upbringing. She struggled financially to support us all. Single parent. She had to do three, four, five jobs. She was always working somewhere.
🗣️ “You talk about my getting up early in the morning, but maybe that’s where I get it from. She had to get up in those days at 4am to do the papers for the local newsagent. She’d come back, take us to school, then do a cleaning job, then work in a leather shop, selling leather goods, in the afternoon, then pick us up from school and look after us in the evening and goodness knows what else. So I used to see that sometimes when I was off school. I guess it must have rubbed off.”
💔 “She passed away suddenly when I was 31; just after I took over at Burnley [his second job before returning to manage Bournemouth in 2012 for eight years]. So she saw that I had started my management career. And, you know, there’s something really weird about that.
👴🏼 “My grandad was another big person in my life. He and my mum were the two big role models for me. And they both said to me when I was young, ‘You are going to be a better manager than you are a player.’ And I’d be like, ‘I don’t want to be a manager. I just love playing the game.’ But they both said it separately, not together. ‘You are going to do really, really well as a manager.”
Touching words from a brilliant big interview with @matthewsyed at The Times.
🏆 Howe got emotional in his post-match press conference after the cup final when reflecting on his mother’s support over the years.
You’ve made them all extremely proud, Eddie 🖤🤍
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“You’re not allowed to do this to me.” 🥹
Aged 15, Bruno Guimaraes left home to pursue his footballing dream.
Here, his parents and friends reflect on his incredible journey.