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Mike Critchley
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Sports writer St Helens Star and Leigh Journal. Rugby league fan, author and pub ticker.
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One for you @cheetss18.bsky.social in Brixton yesterday
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Clone Roses knocking it out the park and doing St Helens proud
November 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Met up with my best man and former Birmingham MetroNews colleague Damian today in Brixton earlier today. Plenty of good tales
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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My dad Brian would have been 88 today. I’ll raise a glass later
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Clone Roses pay tribute to Mani ahead if tomorrow’s big show in West London www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/2564069...
Tribute to Stone Roses Mani - a humble lad who delivered iconic bass lines
TRIBUTES have continued to pour in for Stone Roses and Primal Scream bass player Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, who died yesterday aged 63
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Birthday present from our Rosa!
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Where else to start my 60th year but Cracke in Liverpool. We go back a long way
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Where the Saints summer era began
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1996 - the year that kicked off Saints' Super League successes
SAINTS have been blessed with many memorable seasons over the decades – but next year sees the 30th anniversary of the first Super League success
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November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Farewell Sheffield till next time - a city with so many quality pubs.
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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1,826 Two & Six, Sheffield
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Fat Cat, still an old Sheffield favourite
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Shakespeare- one of many old favourites in Sheffield
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In Sheffield…nipped in the Old Shoe, now off to Vocation
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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What a wonderful photograph
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Whippet Fancier, Huddersfield, 1973, photo by Chris Killip.
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Anyway…weekend is here!
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Brilliant response to this - including a player who faced the All Blacks…definitely writing a follow up www.sthelensstar.co.uk/sport/256183...
Can you spot the two future Saints in this winning Cowley Sevens team?
TODAY'S #ThrowbackThursday features as remarkable picture of a trophy-winning Cowley Sevens team from the late 1950s with two future Saints
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November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Spot the two future Saints?
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Can you spot the two future Saints in this winning Cowley Sevens team?
TODAY'S #ThrowbackThursday features as remarkable picture of a trophy-winning Cowley Sevens team from the late 1950s with two future Saints
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November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Saints confirm new signing
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Saints confirm the signing of Wigan Warriors three-quarter
St Helens have confirmed the signing of Wigan Warriors three-quarter Jacob Douglas
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November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This week in Saints
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This Week in Saints: Powerful Welsh centre Scott Gibbs grabs two tries
THIS Week in Saints saw Welsh centre Scott Gibbs score two tries in the Regal Trophy game
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November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Wrong time of the year for my washing machine to pack up…
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Like this place in Liverpool
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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1,823 The Regent. Walked up through Chapeltown and then into Chapel Allerton to tick off this gem
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The end of my 48th RL season as specky/scribbler
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This week in Saints through the decades
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Hat-trick for Alan Whittle as Saints thrash Australia
THE highlight of This Week in Saints was the men in the red vee beating the touring Australians 37-10 at Knowsley Road.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Always open to suggestions for the #ThrowbackThursday and the regular Star sports nostalgia page
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Wembley winner Derek Noonan - a classy centre for Wire, Saints and England
This week's #ThrowbackThursday looks at classy former Saints and England centre Derek Noonan
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November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM