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News that the next Wear-Tyne derby match will have a 5.15pm start confirms it is Sky who really run football. So that the rest of the nation can tune in to our private battle of honour, all previous considerations of public order and crowd safety have been cast aside. Cast your mind back only a handful of years, when noon kick-offs on Sunday and away fan bans were the norm. While we're happy that common sense has finally prevailed, we can't help but think this new liberal attitude will be stretched to breaking point by this tea-time date. With the extra drinking time, pre-match mayhem seems to us inevitable. Just why have the police gone along with it? Biffa |