What have you been up to you naughty boys. I don't think you will ever be welcome in Scotland.
Best stick to the north west and try and learn the finer art of football.
Mind you, one of our directors, who sadly died this summer, once said to me that, "There are no such things as pre-season friendlies. There are pre-season games and games during the season!"
So far we, Gateshead, have won two out of two. But our real tests will come against middlesborough and Scarborough.
I was wondering what this was related to yesterday. On the train to work today, I found out!
For all of you who don't know, check out page 29 of The Sun today! It's possibly on their website too (www.thesun.co.uk).
From what I can gather, Barrow were playing Stenhousmuir in a friendly, and the visitors walked off after 18 minutes because of two horrendous challenges by Barrow players, one of which may career threatening.
I can only assume that Barrow are not going to be taking the league seriously next year then - the fair play league that is!!