BlueStar Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Some good-natured ribbing of Steve Cram from Brendan Foster on the London Marathon today Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cram's being laying into us for years on TV, about time Brendan gave him some back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Can't help liking Steve Cram. Him and Niall Quinn--a Makem by proxy and constant thorn in our side (even when at Man City)--seem like decent people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cram's being laying into us for years on TV, about time Brendan gave him some back What did Foster say? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 http://i68.tinypic.com/2m5gqb6.jpg Them and Boro scrapping it out for a bottom finish. Think they'll edge it, just. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cram's being laying into us for years on TV, about time Brendan gave him some back What did Foster say? To be fair, Cram brought it up, saying the pacemakers were in black and white shirts and asking if it was for Foster's benefit. Foster just said north-east football was changing, and mentioned that he still had a text Cram had sent him last year giving him directions to Burton Albion, said he was send it back along with some directions to Fleetwood Town for next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cram's being laying into us for years on TV, about time Brendan gave him some back What did Foster say? To be fair, Cram brought it up, saying the pacemakers were in black and white shirts and asking if it was for Foster's benefit. Foster just said north-east football was changing, and mentioned that he still had a text Cram had sent him last year giving him directions to Burton Albion, said he was send it back along with some directions to Fleetwood Town for next year. Banter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Those two grew-up less than 5 miles apart. Why do people (some) in Jarrow/Tyneside support Sunderland? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Anybody who says a variant of 'because they are South of the river', deserves to be verbally chinned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhoywhonder Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Christ, their patter is just atrocious. Why the constant disrespect to Burton, and now Fleetwood? Anyone who ascribes to the PL as the f***ing be all and end all needs their head seeing to. If anything this season has show what a really competitive league looks like, and the fact that Chelsea, City, Spurs etc are so summarily dismissed from the CL every year should put to rest this 'best league in the world' bollocks. f*** it, let's stay in the champo again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cram's being laying into us for years on TV, about time Brendan gave him some back What did Foster say? To be fair, Cram brought it up, saying the pacemakers were in black and white shirts and asking if it was for Foster's benefit. Foster just said north-east football was changing, and mentioned that he still had a text Cram had sent him last year giving him directions to Burton Albion, said he was send it back along with some directions to Fleetwood Town for next year. of Cram's being laying into us for years on TV, about time Brendan gave him some back What did Foster say? To be fair, Cram brought it up, saying the pacemakers were in black and white shirts and asking if it was for Foster's benefit. Foster just said north-east football was changing, and mentioned that he still had a text Cram had sent him last year giving him directions to Burton Albion, said he was send it back along with some directions to Fleetwood Town for next year. Christ, their patter is just atrocious. Why the constant disrespect to Burton, and now Fleetwood? Anyone who ascribes to the PL as the fucking be all and end all needs their head seeing to. If anything this season has show what a really competitive league looks like, and the fact that Chelsea, City, Spurs etc are so summarily dismissed from the CL every year should put to rest this 'best league in the world' bollocks. Fuck it, let's stay in the champo again. Foster is retiring this year, so not much more of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Those two grew-up less than 5 miles apart. Why do people (some) in Jarrow/Tyneside support Sunderland? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Anybody who says a variant of 'because they are South of the river', deserves to be verbally chinned. South Shields is mainly a mackem area and further up the tyne you go the less mackem supporters you find, so you do get some in Jarrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Those two grew-up less than 5 miles apart. Why do people (some) in Jarrow/Tyneside support Sunderland? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Anybody who says a variant of 'because they are South of the river', deserves to be verbally chinned. My dad's from Jarrow, so I could have easily have ended up a mackem. He ended up following us because his mates supported Newcastle and we'd recently won a load of FA Cups, but it sounds like you could just take your pick back then if you were a jarra lad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 It's pretty much the same distance from Newcastle and Sunderland to Jarrow so I think it's natural the further along the Tyne you get, the more chance there'll be Sunderland fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 I get that both Burton and Fleetwood were conference sides not so many years ago, but that's irrelevant, both teams have worked hard and deserve to be where they are in the league to use them as bait in an awful attempt at bantz is disrespectful tbh. Neither of us have much bragging rights at the moment, both teams are much better run than either of ours to be where they are on a shoestring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cheers, but same query applies really. Beyond family allegiances, what would make you support Sunderland if you're from Tyneside? My curiosity uncovered this from Shields Gazette in 2015: "... a new geographical locator of Premier League clubs’ followers on the social media site has unearthed how well-followed each team’s accounts are on the micro-blogging site. Newcastle have 541,000 followers compared to SAFC’s 339,000. And in South Tyneside, the black-and-whites are emphatically on top in the areas of South Shields and Jarrow, with almost 26 per cent and 20 per cent of users following them in those locations. The club are also the most followed in the Washington and Sunderland West constituency. Durham City also belongs to the Magpies, with Sunderland again second. Both clubs also have strong followings abroad, with Newcastle the eighth most followed team in the USA and Australia, Russia, Brazil and Finland. One country Sunderland have more followers in than their nearest and dearest is South Korea, with the Black Cats ninth and the Tynesiders placed 11th." Read more at: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/new-twitter-map-shows-newcastle-has-more-fans-than-sunderland-in-south-tyneside-1-7226206 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Cheers, but same query applies really. Beyond family allegiances, what would you support Sunderland if you're from Tyneside? My curiosity uncovered this from Shields Gazette in 2011: "... a new geographical locator of Premier League clubs’ followers on the social media site has unearthed how well-followed each team’s accounts are on the micro-blogging site. Newcastle have 541,000 followers compared to SAFC’s 339,000. And in South Tyneside, the black-and-whites are emphatically on top in the areas of South Shields and Jarrow, with almost 26 per cent and 20 per cent of users following them in those locations. The club are also the most followed in the Washington and Sunderland West constituency. Durham City also belongs to the Magpies, with Sunderland again second. Both clubs also have strong followings abroad, with Newcastle the eighth most followed team in the USA and Australia, Russia, Brazil and Finland. One country Sunderland have more followers in than their nearest and dearest is South Korea, with the Black Cats ninth and the Tynesiders placed 11th." Read more at: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/new-twitter-map-shows-newcastle-has-more-fans-than-sunderland-in-south-tyneside-1-7226206 I technically live in Sunderland but Washington has slightly more Newcastle fans than Sunderland despite being able to see the SoL from my house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 It's always been the case that when you and your rival club end up in different leagues fans exaggerate the gap by comparing the best teams you'll be playing against to the worst they'll be playing against. And usually that's either the clubs which have just come down into your new league (Or Man U, Chelsea etc if you're in the premier league) and whoever's coming up from the league below the one they've ended up in. It's not exactly Chaucer, but it's standard fare and not particularly a slight aimed specifically at Fleetwood. There's probably teams which will be glad to be playing in the Championship boasting about the fact they get to play Villa and Sunderland (well, maybe not Sunderland) while their local rivals will be playing Crawley. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Those two grew-up less than 5 miles apart. Why do people (some) in Jarrow/Tyneside support Sunderland? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Anybody who says a variant of 'because they are South of the river', deserves to be verbally chinned. South Shields is mainly a mackem area and further up the tyne you go the less mackem supporters you find, so you do get some in Jarrow. I haven't lived there for 20 years but shields used to be quite even - don't forget Sunderland is closer and just about easier to get to. I think football has changed over the last few decades but it was almost always an inherited thing when I was a kid rather than what I think is a more free choice nowadays. My dad did used to go and watch both clubs but was defined by who he wanted to see win the derbies which means I'm black and white. When I started going to away games regularly at the start of the 80s, people from the town or North of the river did used to mock us gently for where we came from but I always felt more at home with tynesiders due to a similar accent rather than with Mackems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 And ultimately, who gives a shit about being disrespectful to Fleetwood's 5 fans? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiedean Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Can't help liking Steve Cram. Him and Niall Quinn--a Makem by proxy and constant thorn in our side (even when at Man City)--seem like decent people. Niall Quinn is as odious a cunt as you're ever likely to meet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10547333/david-moyes-admits-sunderland-will-be-in-a-fight-against-relegation-this-season Who would have thought that that would turn out to be too optimistic? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al1892 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Those two grew-up less than 5 miles apart. Why do people (some) in Jarrow/Tyneside support Sunderland? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Anybody who says a variant of 'because they are South of the river', deserves to be verbally chinned. South Shields is mainly a mackem area and further up the tyne you go the less mackem supporters you find, so you do get some in Jarrow. No way is South Shields mainly a mackem area like, at the very worst its 50/50 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Not mainly, but from my experience I would agree that Toon fans certainly aren't the majority. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Those two grew-up less than 5 miles apart. Why do people (some) in Jarrow/Tyneside support Sunderland? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Anybody who says a variant of 'because they are South of the river', deserves to be verbally chinned. South Shields is mainly a mackem area and further up the tyne you go the less mackem supporters you find, so you do get some in Jarrow. No way is South Shields mainly a mackem area like, at the very worst its 50/50 To keep it simple just assume everyone South of The Tyne is a mackem. We can forgive the folk in Gateshead because they're connected via the Tyne Bridge amongst others. Saves all the bickering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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