Worth noting that all these classy congratulations don’t amount to fuck all when it comes to them. As somebody from South Shields, I know what they do: They scuttle off like cowards when they’re shit and we’re good (which in my lifetime is most of the time), they don’t mention football. And, for all the gloom, we know that that will be the state of affairs again before too long. Just ask any gloating mackems if they bothered in league one- I know some did, but not a single one that I know