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As such he was always on shifting sands with Ashley sitting in his black and white replica shirt amid the Geordie faithful, hearing at first hand the pain as each desperate week went by.

The biggest criticism of Allardyce among the fans, few of whom welcomed his arrival, was that he was a long ball merchant. A pragmatic manager. A man who had performed creditably with Bolton via little more than muscle and determination.

But he was not a manager of vision or adventure. Not a man to thrill the Geordie footballing soul as Kevin Keegan had done a decade before.

Those critics were correct. More>>

1846: Sweeney makes his first appearance in the story "The String of Pearls: A Romance" by Thomas Prest.

1847: George Dibdin Pitt turns the story into a melodrama called Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which becomes a major success throughout England.

1926: Dibdin Pitt's play becomes a British silent film called Sweeney Todd with G.A. Baughan as the demon barber.

1928: Another British silent film version is made with the same title, but a different plot and Moore Marriott in the lead.

1936: Tod Slaughter, the melodrama villain supreme, played the title role in a talkie. More>>