How Newcastle's stadium DJ wound Sunderland up, and what a BBC reporter said to offend a bunch of northern kids

By 3pm

Published 20:30 31/10/10

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TV moment of the week came on the BBC's confusingly-named local North-East new show Look North. Reporter Dawn Thewlis was reporting from outside St James' Park, with a predictable bunch of jammy-faced local kids jumping up and down behind her.

"In a moment," said Dawn, "I'll be giving you details of a competition some special kids will win. (Quick turn of the head) Not like these here - they are more like special needs."

Dawn has since apologised.

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Newcastle really know how to rub it in. As Sunderland trudged off St James' Park, the stadium DJ played the Monkees' Daydream Believer so the home faithful could update their "Cheer up Peter Reid" song with new lyrics about Steve Bruce and his "s**t football team". Black Cats bigwigs in the house were far from impressed.

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Fashion faux pas of the weekend: The Aston Villa fans wearing home-made 'Magnificent Seven' T-shirts at the Midlands derby in anticipation of what they believed would be a seventh straight win against Birmingham City. 'Magnificent Six and a 0-0 draw' doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?

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