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Once labelled a dreamer.... Up The Pools eh.... 🙈 Ran the 2022 London and 2024 Manchester Marathons in aid of Prostate Cancer UK 🏃🏻‍♂️😅

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7 years
Danny Graham , ex Boro and current Blackburn Rovers striker. Superb gesture in donating £2500 to the Hartlepool United cause 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
Took this epic nine years ago today at Kings Cross. Quite a photo like. Appears normal for a few hundred Hartlepool Smurfs to be on escalator in London judging by the look of those on the right 👀
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@Nick_Loughlin_
Nick Loughlin
6 years
The back page of Tuesday's Northern Echo. Not a nice page to draw up, but hope it pays tribute to a Hartlepool United hero. Rest in peace Neale Cooper. Hartlepool is heartbroken tonight.
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
Smart work from the Carlisle massive who smashed up the disabled enclosure in the away end at The Vic today. Well done lads, you must be so proud.
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2 years
3-0 down at Barrow after 20 minutes and the Barrow physio is treating the Pools players because Pools don’t have one. An absolute low.
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@Nick_Loughlin_
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6 years
Back for another season at Victoria Park - a superb flag on show in the Neale Cooper Stand #standfree #Hartlepool #AberdeenFC #nealecooper #legend
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6 years
First thing an England World Cup semi finalist does when he gets home ? Gets a Chinese take away 🍛🍱🍤🍚
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10 months
Well deserved recognition for Jeff Stelling, the best ambassador Hartlepool has ever had. His work for prostate cancer has been inspiring for so many. The best broadcaster in the business and an all round top bloke 🏅
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3 years
Crystal Palace have shown nothing but respect for Pools throughout. This is a lovely touch 💙
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Crystal Palace F.C.
3 years
The club have donated to the fundraising appeal of @Official_HUFC manager Graeme Lee’s wife Gemma, who is looking to raise £60,000 to fund her next 12 months of treatment for a life-threatening brain tumour ❤️💙 #CPFC
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3 years
Away in Santorini… talking footy with waiter in the hotel. Chelsea fan he reckons. Told him he wouldn’t have heard of my team … “Yes I know of Hartlepool United you had a Greek goalkeeper who played for the national team” 🇬🇷🙌🏼
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7 years
BREAKING NEWS: Hartlepool United set for takeover
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5 years
Boro dump Tony Pulis. And it's so popular among Boro fans their website has crashed.
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Nick Loughlin
5 years
New year, new position. After almost 22 years as sports editor, I’m about to start on a whole new chapter of the Great Daily Of The North. Hope you will enjoy what’s to come ....
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The Northern Echo
5 years
We are really excited to announce a new Teesside edition of The Northern Echo and the appointment of @LoughlinEcho as its editor!
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3 years
Absolutely elish to see all the players (still in their kits 😂😂) celebrating with the Poolies in Millennium Square 🥳🥳🥳🍺🍺🍺 #upthepools #neversaydie
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3 years
Up the pools 🥳🥳🥳🍺🍺
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2 years
London Marathon? Completed it 😅 4:15. Hit the wall at 18 miles and last 8 was a struggle #neveragain
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Nick Loughlin
7 years
Signs that football is well and truly gone number 1,238: When a striker refuses to play because Newport County are in for him.
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Nick Loughlin
4 years
I understand a substantial bid has been made by a consortium to takeover Hartlepool United. They are awaiting a response to their attractive offer from the current owner Raj Singh and have firm plans to strongly invest in the club and team.
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3 years
Good words from Blackpool boss Neil Critchley on Pools: They have a good home record and they're hard to beat on their home pitch. Fair play to them, good luck. I hope they get a really good draw in the next round now, this is their day.
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3 years
Pools have just pocketed another £50,000 for tonight’s win in the Papa John’s Trophy quarter final. That means they have earned £150,000 from reaching the semi final of the competition. Nice boost to the January transfer fund. 💰💰💰
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3 years
That’s 9 unbeaten for Pools - 4 wins from 5 and 6 points shy of the play offs. Away form turned around under the new management. A far more rounded team right now with a real presence up front. Never Say Die.
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Nick Loughlin
7 years
Jeff Stelling, Hartlepool's finest. Passion. He cares. #neversaydie
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Nick Loughlin
2 years
Pools can’t defend, don’t look like they are going to score, aren’t fit, have little shape or organisation and play like strangers every week. Hartley is the cause of the problems, time for him to go before it’s too late.
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
Don’t have to qualify for the FA Cup anymore. Back in the League Cup. Looking forward to the Papa John’s Trophy 😃😃😃
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Nick Loughlin
4 years
Sad to say that Friday was my final day - after 27 years - with The Northern Echo. Been on furlough / notice for three months so been absent a while (if you had missed me that is!) I’ve enjoyed every day and been proud to be Sports Editor for so long /1
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Nick Loughlin
10 months
Hartlepool United Football Club (managerless) 🔵 Lose at home in the FA Cup to a lower division team 🔵 Lose at home in the FA Trophy to a lower division team 🔵 16th in the National League Many thanks to Lee Rust and Raj Singh for their efforts 👌🏼
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5 years
Exeter boss Matt Taylor: It's been a bruising 120 minutes for us. Two teams going at it all game, all night, and sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say Hartlepool deserved it.
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5 years
End of an era for The Northern Echo and journalism in the North East as Mike Amos pens his final column after 55 years with The Great Daily Of The North. A privilege to be laying out his final words for tomorrow’s paper.
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2 years
Up the Pools
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8 years
I think everyone in Hartlepool owes Jeff Stelling a pint of Strongarm 💪🏼🍺
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Nick Loughlin
7 years
EXCLUSIVE: Hartlepool United's takeover is finally completed.
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
Hartlepool United Cup Kings🏆
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Nick Loughlin
6 years
Absolutely devastating news. Neale Cooper was a hero in Hartlepool. Football has lost one of it’s true characters.
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
A heartbreakingly beautiful photo
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Natasha-jayne
3 years
Absolutely amazing😥😍 @Official_HUFC
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4 years
So tomorrow you can go to the multiscreen Vue to watch the Premier League games in an enclosed space, but 200 yards away you can’t be outside in the open air watching Pools take on Aldershot. Ridiculous isn’t the word.
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3 years
Hotel lift just announced “going up” as we got in it ⬆️
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1 year
There's a LOT gone on. And when it's all pulled together then it's surreal what's actually happened. I look forward to hearing your thoughts (and criticism!) Here's to a new start. Never Say Die.
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3 years
There something special going on at the Vic right now. Quite remarkable stuff 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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3 years
Hartlepool United. Cup kings 🏆
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Nick Loughlin
8 years
Our man in France @Scottwilsonecho tells how it is on the streets. A must read.
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5 years
So today, last away game of the season and wonder what Pools fancy dress would be? It’s never a bad time to post my Poolie Smurfs photo from Kings Cross on the way to Charlton in 2012 😃
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3 years
Half of Hartlepool in Bristol tonight like 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 #neversaydie
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Nick Loughlin
2 years
So Pools are six points from safety with six to play for and a goal difference of minus six over Crawley. Team never turned up, offered nothing, pretty much like they have done since August. An appalling mess of a club. We can all thank Raj Singh for that.
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2 years
FT: Raj Singh 0 Dave Challinor 5
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6 months
Pools supporters fancy dress day is back with the Blues Brothers going to Dorking - still won’t top this one I took at Kings Cross Underground Station 😃
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5 years
A year ago today since the great Neale Cooper passed away. One of the best 💙
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@Nick_Loughlin_
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5 years
Five years ago today ��️
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5 years
Exeter players there on camera at the final whistle look devastated. Can’t work out why, I mean what’s wrong with them playing at Hartlepool on a mid December night ? #neversaydie
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7 years
It comes to something when a supporter pays her football club’s outstanding tax bill of around £48,000 and announces it on a Facebook group ......
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9 months
Hartlepool United Clean sheet ✔️ Worldie goal ✔️ Away win ✔️ New manager ✔️ Most promising day of the season perhaps? 🤔
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3 years
Never Say Die
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3 years
Cracking performance and win for Pools. Change of system against a team who try and keep the ball paid off. Manager had done his homework and more. 4 away wins from 5 - not bad for a team that lost and lost again away from home before Spike’s appointment
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Nick Loughlin
6 years
Pools flag spotted #itscominghome
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Nick Loughlin
2 years
Tremendous win for Pools that. The ups and downs of last week and this. Sterry’s return cannot be underestimated - faultless performance and improves the team no end. Oh and two goals from corners - and out of the bottom two.
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9 months
You don’t get many players hitting that landmark all career never mind for one club. Only 6 players have appeared more for the mighty blue and white. Top professional and a good bloke all round.
@Official_HUFC
Hartlepool United FC
9 months
Congratulations, Feaths 💙
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7 months
Stockport promoted. Wrexham promoted. Hartlepool 1 Dagenham 1 in the middle of the National League. Yes, Raj Singh really does know best doesn’t he 👍🏼
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
Big win for Pools today on the back of Tuesday - and 3 unbeaten away from home considering how poor the away form has been says a lot about Lee and Nelson and their defensive nous 👊🏼
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3 years
Hartlepool …. If you know, you know
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Nick Loughlin
2 years
Pools relegated. Wrexham promoted. Challinor to put the final nail in the coffin. Still Raj Singh knows best doesn’t he 😐
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2 years
Up the Pools 👍🏼
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5 years
Really hope that sticker has been there on the fruit shop for 29 years .... #italia90
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Nick Loughlin
7 years
This is why football clubs should not be allowed to die. Pools' history might not be golden or lavish, but this what it's all about. It's a proud North-East institution. Never Say Die.
@Official_HUFC
Hartlepool United FC
7 years
Here's to another 110 years... #ToBeContinued #Pools
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2 years
Pools have conceded 17 goals in 7 games this season. Teams who start the season so badly don’t suddenly turn it around. It’s a sign of a desperately bad team and a poor manager. Don’t forget though that the squad is “a million times ahead of where we were this time last year”
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3 years
Savannah Marshall - Hartlepool’s finest 🥊
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@Nick_Loughlin_
Nick Loughlin
6 years
Seaton Carew’s number one Panama fan John Darwin
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Nick Loughlin
7 years
Seven points above the drop zone, 11 points from 15, three wins in a row, three goals in two games for Woods. Home to bottom-placed Guiseley on Monday. Happy Easter .......
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Hartlepool United FC
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Full Time: Maidstone United 1 #Pools 2. #MAIvHAR
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3 years
Something really smart happening at The Vic right now. Just 1 defeat and 3 draws in 19. About time it was a horrible place for the opposition who had it too easy for too long here. Great game today, and turned it around, and dug in, after a tough first half
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3 years
Pools 12th on 47 points - would have taken that with a game to go never mind already. Slack opening today, then clicked into gear and controlled it with 2 quality goals. It’s 3 away wins from 4, compare that to previous away form: a much more effective side under Lee and Nelson
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“He wasn't willing to back himself and has decided his future lies elsewhere. Everyone has decisions to make that suit themselves” Challinor on Rhys Oates, 8 July 2021
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@Nick_Loughlin_
Nick Loughlin
9 years
York City new stadium put on hold - so these "toilet" facilities in the away end will be used for another year 😳 http://t.co/nvWeaNiPwi
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3 years
Jeff stelling at his Pools best to start Soccer Saturday: it’s been a good week for the big guns… Mo Salah, Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane, Kevin De Bruyne, Marcus Rashford and Mark Cullen 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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2 years
Keith Curle fact of the day: he was sacked as Notts County boss at Victoria Park straight after losing 2-1 in Feb 2013 …. The day when Hartlepool’s goals were scored by Hartley and Poole
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3 years
Timi Odusina rightly named man of the match tonight. Last few games he has been very impressive and against Charlton he gave nothing away - quick and aggressive. Playing under 2 great Pools centre halves appears to be doing him good 👍🏼
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
I thought John Darwin lived at Seaton Carew and not the Headland 🤨
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Nick Loughlin
10 months
Six routine and easy points for Oldham in a few days. Club is dying on its feet on and off the pitch. Disgusting how Hartlepool United has been run over the last 18 months. People making the decisions should be hanging their heads in shame. But it’s not their fault is it …..
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3 years
Great scenes in Hartlepool as the promotion heroes head around town 🏆👏🏼🥳
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3 years
Some show second half especially from Pools today. Had a great go second half but soft start so costly. Superb turnout and atmosphere, as some Palace fan said “They a proper club none of this plastic wannabes”. FA Cup head to head: Pools 2 Palace 1 👍🏼
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
This doesn’t happen to Pools does it 😃🥳
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
Going on @BBCTees shortly to talk about the mighty blue and white. Need to find my voice first, last heard in Millennium Square at 1am….😮‍💨
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@Nick_Loughlin_
Nick Loughlin
7 years
Hartlepool United Football Club. Now nothing but a complete basket case. 108 years of history and honest graft ripped up in a few short disastrous years. Never Say Die.
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6 years
Half time at Pools under the Neale Cooper stand 👍🏼
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8 years
BREAKING NEWS: Jones is sacked by Pools
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4 years
Must be absolutely baltic in Hull tonight because Boro’s Djed Spence is wearing a pair of gloves. Gloves in July.... should be an automatic six game ban and a free transfer to Billingham Synthonia
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2 months
Confirmation that anyone who claims to like Oasis and says Wonderwall is their favourite song is banned from buying tickets for the reunion #oasisreunion
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Nick Loughlin
8 years
Two years ago today when @ronniemoore53 completed the Great Escape 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
Looks like Pools have that new goalscorer in the bag for the new season 😃
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3 years
Up The Pools 👍🏼☝🏼
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3 years
Pools League 2 away form 🤓 L L L D L L W L 4pts / 24. F5 A15 (Challinor) L L 0/6 F1 A5 (Sweeney) L L D D W W L W W 14/27 F8 A12 (Lee) Some turnaround that under the new management team 📈
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3 years
Up The Pools 🙌🏼🙌🏼
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2 years
“Yeah just boshed one in from 25 yards in injury time mate”
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Nick Loughlin
1 year
Just Sam Fender and his squad abusing my brother in law in Milan yesterday 😂😂 (Should he wear his SAFC shirt for the gig tonight 🤔)
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Nick Loughlin
3 years
National League officials after their meeting to decide on the playoffs
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1 year
Three wins a row for Pools - last time was Feb 2022. Not over convincing at the back at times but workrate and effort was immense from 1-11. Mancini applauded off by the Southend fans, he plays with a buzz and a graceful touch that players at this level don’t normally possess.
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Nick Loughlin
4 years
The North East stays in tier 3. So you can’t go to the match and watch football outside, but you can still go and queue to get into rammed Primark for that Christmas onesie you have always wanted 🥺
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Nick Loughlin
8 years
Two games to go. Hartlepool United's only hope is to sack Dave Jones. Proved a terrible appointment- the club is in turmoil under him
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Nick Loughlin
2 years
End of an era at Pools as Gary Liddle leaves. Don’t get many professionals like him - proper footballer and his performances at the back in the NL (play off final especially) got Pools up. Could still easily play in L2 and leaves as a true Pools great.
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Nick Loughlin
11 months
What a guy. Have a pint in his memory later, he would appreciate it 😊🍺
@PoolsPhotos
Pools Photos ⚽️ 🐒
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Neale Cooper. Today would be his 60th birthday - a real Pools legend. His spell in charge from 2003-2005 was magical. 💙
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4 years
Doesn’t Saturday seem better when you are top of the league and have won 4-0 away from home (OK only 3 games in like but still ....)
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