Newcastle United notes from a career in the St James' Park press box

An introduction to Miles Starforth's Substack.

As a journalist, no two days are quite the same.

And one of the more interesting jobs I had as a news reporter involved donning a hard hat, not a proverbial tin one, at St James’ Park.

The year was 1999. The stadium was being expanded to its present capacity of just over 52,000, and Newcastle United had invited a reporter from the Evening Chronicle to spe…