I recently had an awkward conversation at work. I’d been recruited to help with a project outside my own business. A secondment with no leniency. I’d have to put in extra hours for no extra money. It was fun, a job well done, new skills acquired and it may enhance my...

A Newcastle team in a cup final? What could possibly go wrong? Charlotte Robson was at Kenilworth Road for #nufccupfinalheartache. *** Nothing is more Newcastle-y than going on a great run of form and then losing a final. Or just maybe losing a final. And so, in true...

Which club's fans will be happiest right now? Whose are the most cheesed off? SCOTT ROBSON is your man... Did you know Finland’s capital city of Helsinki has earned the spot of the happiest city in the world again? Is it because of an efficient and well connected...

SCOTT ROBSON with your regular update on all matters non-league in our region.  Never a dull moment... One of the phrases the ‘kids’ use these days is “life comes at you fast”. That appears to be true. The day after I sent the last non league review all hell broke...

Javier Manquillo’s exit announcement was as understated as you would probably expect. Sunday night. Between ‘Antiques Roadshow’ and ‘Call the midwife’. Our heroic local evening newspaper (after almost having another seizure reading it on their website) described the...

Here at True Faith, we proudly continue to write about and support the non-league game in the North East. When he's not standing in the Gallowgate Corner, Scott Robson is the groundsman at Ashington FC. Here, he explains the existential crisis facing the game. *** You...

Mickaël Correia, A People's History of Football, translated by Fiona Petch (Pluto Press, 2023) *** At half-time there were some distinctly unhappy visitors to the away dressing-room. In front of 45,000 spectators, the rag-tag band of former Dynamo and Lokomotiv...

Your TF editorial team signs off for 2023 in Vox Pop form.  Happy New Year from all of us at True Faith towers.  Thank you for reading TF in 2023, and if you want to join the TF team in 2024, please email us at podcast@true-faith.co.uk or DM us on X (formerly...

I remember where I was when that Champions League draw was made. For United to eat at the top table again with AC Milan (seven times winners) Borussia Dortmund (winners and European royalty) and Paris St Germain (who, like it or lump it, are one of the biggest draws...

If you thought our current injury crisis was bad, bear in mind that it could be worse. Much worse. Not so long ago, in that dark time we don't like to think about, there were downright satanic happenings on Barrack Road. Rob McGregor has happened across the evidence....

'Sandro Tonali won't be at Newcastle next season and will go down as a disaster of a signing'. So predicted a Newcastle-supporting pal of mine back in early September. 'In the context of a deliberate exchange of unpopular opinions, to be sure, but still, one whose...

It's been another busy week at Premier League Towers and especially for that Titan of football administration, Richard Masters. As news of Everton's points deduction broke, TF had exclusive behind the scenes access to the great man's office. *** Dodgy Dickie Masters...

With the international break comes a time to reassess the first Champions League campaign for twenty years, and with it STEPHEN ORD has a strange sense of deja vu? Trivia question: In 1997/98 Newcastle United played six Champions League games proper and scored seven...