Which Sunderland players reside in Newcastle?
At this point it's probably worth pointing out that Gateshead and Northumberland are not part of Newcastle.
most newcastle players live in newcastle and its suburbs, how many sunderland players, for the record, actually live in sunderland? plenty of footballers who have played for both newcastle and sunderland have ended up living in Newcastle city centre. Has a single player from either team EVER lived in sunderland city centre?
how come you don't find Newcastle players clamouring to live in Albania on wear? Odd, isnt it?
Kieran Richardson and a few SAFC players live(d) in the Echo 24 flats near the Wearmouth Bridge. My mate used to live there and often saw him in the lift. Quinny has a place in there also. Several SAFC players live in the Ashbrooke area of the city, which is very nice and there are a few others in other parts of the city as well.
There aren't many in the city centre, but that is perhaps something to do with the fact that there isn't much choice in terms of posh apartments. The majority of those living on the Quayside on Tyneside live in Gateshead (Baltic Quays).
I'm not suggesting for a second that some SAFC players don't live or go out in Newcastle (though Darras is in Northumberland in point of fact), but this notion that no SAFC players live, drink or eat on Wearside is just that: a myth.
Randy, you talk alot of sense for a mackem.
You're an upgrade on the last mong but that sentence is bollocks.
Let's be honest here, those players live near Newcastle because that's where everything half decent is.
There's no two ways about it so let's not play games.
If there were lots of plush luxury apartments in Sunderland city centre I think some players would happily live in them. It doesn't mean they would have to go 'out' in Sunderland. They opened the Echo 24 ones and players/staff moved in subsequently e.g. Richardson and Quinny. A player living in Sunderland doesn't preclude them from going into Newcastle if they so wish.
I'm not going come on here and argue against claims that Newcastle has a nicer city centre than Sunderland; it should do given the greater level of money invested in the place. However, as I said earlier, this notion that no Sunderland players live in Sunderland, or would ever eat in restaurants there or go out in the town is tripe. I'm not saying all our players do but plenty do.
There may not be much high-end real estate in Sunderland itself but there's a fair bit of it nearby. Half the houses at the top of Dalton Heights estate in Seaham could probably pass for castles, and then there's Hawthorn about another mile down the road which is essentially a little village of mansions.