Six-shooters good value but crowd braced for ticket hike

REDS have found it difficult to decide who they have more contempt for at Barcode Park this season — Big Fat Sam Allardyce with his ever-open mouth and never-ending uselessness, or the whingeing Geordie muppet-fans and their perennial bloodlust for swinging victims from the Gallows-gate.

Deprived of the chance to be the ones to send Sam on his way on Saturday, we were however quite content instead to inflict more misery on those self-styled Greatest Fans In Britain via six of the best.

Well, two or three of the best, plus a few comedy turns — that second goal will be on many a blooper reel come May, for example.