A year or two before I was appointed Newcastle United manager in 2009, my father stopped going to St James’ Park. He loved the club and always had done — one of the lucky few who actually saw the team ...
It was 1982, and I was three years old. My dad owned a car repair shop in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near where I grew up in Sevierville. My first life memory is listening to Alabama’s “Mountain Music” ...