We must learn from race history

THE fiasco at Maidstone where a Gateshead player was sent off early in the game and a penalty awarded for a touch on the back of a player was a travesty.

Why, when a player is sent off, isn’t he replaced by a sub and the case against sending off brought to a hearing?

The Gateshead manager said he will be appealing against.

All the years I visited football grounds in the region I cannot recall a player being sent off.

But now quite a few players I have noticed are exaggerating a foul when tumbling over and holding on to their leg apparently hoping for an opposing player to be shown the red card and off to an early bath. Something has to be done about this rule.

LES MAY, Gateshead HAVE issues of colour, ethnicity and religion taken the place of class and poverty in international politics since the beginning of new millennium? THE Old George pub in Newcastle Down the Cloth Market you’ll view This A1 listed building Dates from fifteen eighty two, Most probably a coaching inn Where travellers would stay, A little bit like what you’d call A ‘B & B’ today. A pit stop for the coaches Of horses sweat and leather. Left to some poor stable boy To water feed and tether. Low oak beams and warm log fires Where guests were served real ale Socially they’d gather round To swap a merry tale. And as the years meandered With a change in politics Saw Charles the First a prisoner In sixteen forty six.

Just survey the present scene and sense the danger. A rabidly anti-foreigner and anti-Muslim party has just been elected to the German Bundestag, capturing 94 seats. A similar right-wing party taking over in 1933 started World War Two.

Russia now sponsors an aggressive nationalistic rightwing foreign policy against the From Pilgrim Street to Shieldfield Held by the Scots he’s barred And then allowed a game of golf But only under guard. Now history it tells us He may have been in clink But the Old George was his favourite Where he’d stop off for a drink. The chair on which he sat Can still be seen today. Some claim they’ve seen the outline Of a figure dressed in grey. So come in lads and lasses Raise your glasses, give a toast He put the Old George on the map God bless Charlie’s ghost.

M WARREN, Monkseaton world. In the USA, the race situation appears to be worsening. In addition to the Black Lives Matter movement we see African American footballers kneeling while the national anthem is played.

In spite of eight years of an African American presidency, colour and ethnic pressures appear to be worsening. A