Summary
TOMORROW evening's match between Newcastle United and Middlesbrough is the footballing equivalent of the highest stakes poker game the region has ever seen with tens of millions of pounds at stake. And it's not just the Tyne and Tees clubs affected as Sunderland are also looking nervously on. MIKE KELLY reports.
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What Cost the Drop? Drop? ; As All Three North East Premiership Clubs Stare Into the Abyss . .
For whichever team gets relegated from the Premier League it's as high as pounds 35m. And that's just for starters.
That figure takes into account the two-year, pounds 11.5m, so- called parachute payments to help cushion the loss of televisio...See the full content of this document
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