A non league team from the north east have just been given £100,000 for there slice of the transfer fee that took Fraser Forster from Celtic to Southampton, see link www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-34922350
“ What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love"