'Bigger than the Queen': the day Muhammad Ali blew Tyneside away
One day after a royal visit, the boxing icon hit South Shields at his own expense, played darts, had his marriage blessed, and trounced Elizabeth II's turnout. Our writer explains why he has written a play about the day the Greatest changed many lives " including his own Muhammad Ali and I share a birthday, 17 January. I crowbar this fact into any conversation about the greatest sportsman of all time. It's a tenuous …