Local reporter MARK CARRUTHERS outlines the challenges that face the new Blyth Spartans owner

HOPE, belief, pride and ambition are the emotions in which football supporters at all levels of the game hold close to their hearts. But for Blyth Spartans in recent years, perennial strugglers at the wrong end of the National League North table, saved only by either Covid-curtailed seasons or results plucked out of nowhere in the final weeks of the campaign, all four emotions have felt conspicuous by their absence. In this small corner of south-east Northumberland, where a visit to thei...