WELCOME TO THE HAMPSHIRE BRANCH OF THE
SOUTH SHIELDS F.C.SUPPORTERS ASSOCIATION

Club Supporters Official, Bob Scott modelling the new away shirt - don't give up the day job, Bob!

       
David Miliband is the Minister of State, Department for Education and Skills and the Labour MP for South Shields with a majority of 14,090. He is also the proud President of South Shields FC.

Below is an extract from his maiden speech in the House of Commons.

The town boasts more than 200 voluntary organisations, as well as Britain's oldest local daily newspaper, the Shields Gazette. South Shields did not just provide the inspiration for Britain's most-read author, Catherine Cookson, but now has a vibrant artistic life centred on the old Customs house. Its coastline is magnificent, its neighbourhoods diverse, and its people warm and hard working.

There is more. South Shields football club is only 12 divisions off the premiership, in the Albany Insurance northern league. For a nervous first-time candidate, the local team provides the perfect answer to the difficult choice between professing allegiance to Newcastle football club or Sunderland football club. In that, as in much else, South Shields has no trouble finding a third way.

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