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Harry Pearson
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 | WSC 201 Nov 03 |
| Amateur dramatics Trouble in the Northern League | WSC 121 Mar 97 |
| Ambitious minds What "ambition" really means | WSC 247 Sep 07 |
| Believe In The Sign by Mark Hodkinson | WSC 242 Apr 07 |
| Big Mal by David Tossell | WSC 262 Dec 08 |
| Boarding party Football board games | WSC 204 Feb 04 |
| Breeding for export The great and gone of the north-east | WSC 159 May 00 |
| Broken dreams Investigating football's finances | WSC 194 Apr 03 |
| Brother world Jack & Bobby Charlton | WSC 188 Oct 02 |
| Brought to book Hoddle's horrible diary | WSC 140 Oct 98 |
| Bryan's gig Robson's time at Middlesbrough | WSC 167 Jan 01 |
| Cautionary tales The decline of Paul Gascoigne | WSC 210 Aug 04 |
| Christian spirit Ziege looks to the future | WSC 153 Nov 99 |
| Devil's deeds International football bribery | WSC 277 Mar 10 |
| Doom army Newcastle's trophy failures | WSC 220 Jun 05 |
| England Managers by Brian Glanville | WSC 246 Aug 07 |
| Error of judgment West Ham's points deduction | WSC 245 Jul 07 |
| Family planning Cissie Charlton and a family of talent | WSC 111 May 96 |
| Feet of engineering The English way | WSC 219 May 05 |
| Football’s Twelve Apostles by Thomas Law | WSC 244 Jun 07 |
| For Pete's Sake by Wendy Dickinson & Stafford Hildred | WSC 286 Dec 10 |
| Forward thinking Hamilton Ricard's rise | WSC 143 Jan 99 |
| Gazza's troubles A great player's self-destructive nature | WSC 118 Dec 96 |
| Get In There! by Barrie Williams and Tom Lawton Junior | WSC 288 Feb 11 |
| Gretna 2 Alloa Athletic 1 Match of the month | WSC 231 May 06 |
| Gurgle no more David Coleman | WSC 168 Feb 01 |
| Hall or nothing Sir John Hall retires | WSC 129 Nov 97 |
| Hall to play for The power of Newcastle's chairman | WSC 116 Oct 96 |
| Hartlepool 0 Sheffield Wednesday 5 Match of the month | WSC 284 Oct 10 |
| Horden Colliery 0 Billingham Synthonia 2 Match of the Month | WSC 274 Dec 09 |
| Inglorious failure Where it went wrong for England | WSC 251 Jan 08 |
| Interesting, Very Interesting by Barry Davies | WSC 251 Jan 08 |
| Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson | WSC 259 Sep 08 |
| Just passing through Newcastle's Euro '96 | WSC 114 Aug 96 |
| Kevin Keegan by Ian Ridley | WSC 270 Aug 09 |
| Last of the line The changing face of football | WSC 150 Aug 99 |
| Local hero Ownership dream dies | WSC 261 Nov 08 |
| Loony Toon? King Kev returns | WSC 253 Mar 08 |
| Lost In France by Spencer Vignes | WSC 249 Nov 07 |
| Middlesbrough 1 Preston North End 1 Match of the month | WSC 289 Mar 11 |
| My Manchester United Years by Sir Bobby Charlton | WSC 252 Feb 08 |
| Name of the game England names under the spotlight | WSC 146 Apr 99 |
| Newcastle Utd 2 Watford 1 Match of the month | WSC 240 Feb 07 |
| North by north east North Korea's 1966 endeavours | WSC 189 Nov 02 |
| North-east of Eden Cloughie's playing career | WSC 213 Nov 04 |
| Peter Swan by Peter Swan | WSC 239 Jan 07 |
| PFA shows it can be vain Icon magazine | WSC 238 Dec 06 |
| Play Up Corinth by Rob Cavallini | WSC 255 May 08 |
| Regions to be cheerful Doom and gloom in the north-east | WSC 268 Jun 09 |
| Riverside revisited A warning for Man City | WSC 265 Mar 09 |
| Second that emotion Middlesbrough v Sevilla UEFA Cup final | WSC 233 Jul 06 |
| Sunderland 2 Burnley 1 Match of the month | WSC 216 Feb 05 |
| Testing times Drugs and sport | WSC 202 Dec 03 |
| The Anatomy of England by Jonathan Wilson | WSC 281 Jul 10 |
| The anonymous man Searching for the soul of Steve McClaren | WSC 235 Sep 06 |
| The Bumper Book Of Roy Of The Rovers by Roy Race | WSC 266 Apr 09 |
| The Footballer Who Could Fly by Duncan Hamilton | WSC 313 Mar 13 |
| The gospel truth England 1966 forever | WSC 178 Dec 01 |
| The King's Road is fashionable Only on Planet Football | WSC 166 Dec 00 |
| The Lone Rangers by Tom Maxwell | WSC 294 Aug 11 |
| The quiet life From pitch to studio | WSC 264 Feb 09 |
| Uwe Fuchs German Jet-setter | WSC 180 Feb 02 |
| When The Whistle Blows by Andrew Riddoch | WSC 267 May 09 |
| Wilful neglect Obituary: Wilf Mannion | WSC 160 Jun 00 |
| Workington Town 0 Boston Utd 1 Match of the month | WSC 254 Apr 08 |
| Writing on the wall Graffiti at Boro's Ayresome Park | WSC 206 Apr 04 |
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