STRAIGHT TALKING: Middlesbrough mayor Ray Mallon
I WAS a regular reader of Ray Mallon’s column and believe it a shrewd move by The Northern Echo to engage him.
His topics were wide and varied.
When the Newcastle United directors Freddie Shepherd and Douglas Hall were secretly recorded making inappropriate comments about the club in 1998, Ray Mallon perfectly understood.
He said at the time that Douglas Hall would need the support of his father now more than ever.
On the political scene, I remember Ray being impressed with Tony Blair’s first administration.
I was once asked by a representative of the paper who were my favourite writers on the Northern Echo?
I gave him a couple of names and one of them was Ray Mallon.
LD Wilson, Guisborough.
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