We're one-up on Toon already

WEMBLEY WIZARD GRANT EYES SHOCK

- MIKE WALTERS

DOWN the back of the sofa, Newcastle United's Saudi owners have just found a spare £15m, taking their investment to £657m since their Toon takeover.

At the other end of football's financial spectrum, not so long ago - when he was the joint top earner at Bognor Regis Town goalkeeper Grant Smith was paid £175-a-week in cash, in a brown envelope, every Saturday.

And he says it made him "feel like a millionaire" even if he sometimes worked noisy, steamy shifts cleaning pots and pans as a kitchen porter.

But when League Two minnows Bromley attempt to bridge the monetary canyon tomorrow, Smith will make a stand for Pans People. It's 70 years and 14 visits since Newcastle won at Wembley.