Harry Pearson was born in 1961 in village a few miles outside Middlesbrough. He was educated by kindly Quakers and can still sing all the words to the Society of Friends’ rousing anthem Baggy, baggy britches/Shaggy, shaggy locks/You are pulling down the pillars of the world George Fox. An attempt to become a journalist foundered when he failed to get onto an NUJ course because his spelling wasn’t good enough. After many years working in jobs that required overalls or disposable paper hats his life was altered forever by reading an article about Alan Foggon in WSC. Since then he has written six books including The Far Corner and contributed to a dozen more. He has written for WSC for 20 years and has been a weekly columnist on the Guardian since 1997. His spelling remains eratic, but it is still much better than his punctuation.
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Accidental Hero
The life and times of Beckham
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WSC 201 Nov 03
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Ambitious minds
What "ambition" really means
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WSC 247 Sep 07
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Believe In The Sign
by Mark Hodkinson
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WSC 242 Apr 07
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Big Mal
by David Tossell
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WSC 262 Dec 08
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Boarding party
Football board games
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WSC 204 Feb 04
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Breeding for export
The great and gone of the north-east
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WSC 159 May 00
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Broken dreams
Investigating football's finances
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WSC 194 Apr 03
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Brother world
Jack & Bobby Charlton
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WSC 188 Oct 02
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Bryan's gig
Robson's time at Middlesbrough
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WSC 167 Jan 01
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Cautionary tales
The decline of Paul Gascoigne
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WSC 210 Aug 04
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Christian spirit
Ziege looks to the future
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WSC 153 Nov 99
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Doom army
Newcastle's trophy failures
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WSC 220 Jun 05
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England Managers
by Brian Glanville
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WSC 246 Aug 07
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Error of judgment
West Ham's points deduction
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WSC 245 Jul 07
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Feet of engineering
The English way
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WSC 219 May 05
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Football’s Twelve Apostles
by Thomas Law
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WSC 244 Jun 07
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Gretna 2 Alloa Athletic 1
Match of the month
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WSC 231 May 06
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Gurgle no more
David Coleman
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WSC 168 Feb 01
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Interesting, Very Interesting
by Barry Davies
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WSC 251 Jan 08
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Inverting the Pyramid
by Jonathan Wilson
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WSC 259 Sep 08
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Kevin Keegan
by Ian Ridley
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WSC 270 Aug 09
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Lost In France
by Spencer Vignes
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WSC 249 Nov 07
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My Manchester United Years
by Sir Bobby Charlton
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WSC 252 Feb 08
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Newcastle Utd 2 Watford 1
Match of the month
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WSC 240 Feb 07
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North by north east
North Korea's 1966 endeavours
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WSC 189 Nov 02
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North-east of Eden
Cloughie's playing career
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WSC 213 Nov 04
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Peter Swan
by Peter Swan
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WSC 239 Jan 07
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PFA shows it can be vain
Icon magazine
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WSC 238 Dec 06
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Play Up Corinth
by Rob Cavallini
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WSC 255 May 08
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Second that emotion
Middlesbrough v Sevilla UEFA Cup final
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WSC 233 Jul 06
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Sunderland 2 Burnley 1
Match of the month
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WSC 216 Feb 05
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Testing times
Drugs and sport
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WSC 202 Dec 03
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The anonymous man
Searching for the soul of Steve McClaren
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WSC 235 Sep 06
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The Bumper Book Of Roy Of The Rovers
by Roy Race
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WSC 266 Apr 09
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The gospel truth
England 1966 forever
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WSC 178 Dec 01
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The King's Road is fashionable
Only on Planet Football
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WSC 166 Dec 00
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Uwe Fuchs
German Jet-setter
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WSC 180 Feb 02
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When The Whistle Blows
by Andrew Riddoch
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WSC 267 May 09
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Wilful neglect
Obituary: Wilf Mannion
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WSC 160 Jun 00
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Writing on the wall
Graffiti at Boro's Ayresome Park
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WSC 206 Apr 04
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