Some of you may have seen this but I just couldn't let it go without a comment. 442 have a list of 100 football scandals that cover everything from bribery and corruption to drug addiction and players beating their wives and girlfriends up. However our own Douggie and Freddie make number 1 with the 'toongate' stitch up.

Now whatever you think of the 2 men in question or what was said, in the end this was 2 pissed up business men, set up by a dodgy tabloid. Did they bribe anyone, take drugs, beat anyone up? No they make some very inappropriate comments and acted like idiots. I can't say that what they did was in anyway excusable but in top 100 of scandals, some of which are pretty serious, for 442 to put it at number one is a bit of a joke.

Any other views?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Answers

I think it was the no. 1 scandal they insulted an entire population of geordies.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Is the Darlington chariman in there? Didn't he pay an arsonist to burn down the ground for the insurance money? Now that's dodgy. Or how about Master Bates and his electric fences?

As for our pair of jokers, well it was on the telly and in almost every paper in the land for weeks so it did gain a certain notoriety - annually re-heated and served up in tandem with the Marbella incident / Rob Lee transfer request / share prices etc. It's to be expected

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

What about the Yorkshire lot in the 60's who took money to lose games (now they just lose games) or Mr. Grobellaar or Woodgate?

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

I've read this and at first I thought the same as you. However on a re-read it wasn't a Top 100 list, just a list of 100 football related scandals, and it was coincidence that the good shepheard was listed as number one.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Oh well - it still irritated me that it should be at number one.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

It was the Doncaster chairman who paid someone to burn the ground down. The Darlington bloke is just an ordinary burglar!

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

If you're like me Lynda, it's the fact that he's still with the club that stimulates any reaction at all.

If he took early retirement, he'd cease to exist as far as I'm concerned.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001