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That they so desperatey want something to be true that isn't and would be no more than adopting a similar colour/design shirt anyway is tragic stuff. 

There probably will be some club somewhere that did copy the mackems shirt design and every other English clubs (Real Madrid copied Corinthian's ffs)

but something as simple as typing 'Bilbao original colours' into google gives the Southampton based student story (and the fact its the City's colours)

 

 

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GallowgatePigeon

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Sorry, I'm sure it's been explained earlier but what's their love in with Bilbao all about? Are they claiming that Bilbao took the oh so original idea of red & white stripes from our trailblazing, pioneering, European conquering neighbours, but it turns out it was actually Southampton?

 

Would it be like us trying to force an alliance with Juventus and subsequently deny all evidence that they took their kits from Notts County?

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10 hours ago, KennyUtd said:

I see the "Newcastle's a shit hole" thread has been parsnipped now too. Vile bunch of arseholes.

 

That cant be a real thread surely! I had to go over to sunderland about a month ago, the train station actually stunk of piss at platform level, the ground level concourse was full of charvers riding their bikes around shrieking, and at street level, it was just a pissheads paradise!

 

Re: the Bilbao link, I'm going to guess its just a desperation to be recognised because they have fuck all else? Although being recognised because of having the same strip 120 years ago? Like, who would ever give a shit?

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, GallowgatePigeon said:

Sorry, I'm sure it's been explained earlier but what's their love in with Bilbao all about? Are they claiming that Bilbao took the oh so original idea of red & white stripes from our trailblazing, pioneering, European conquering neighbours, but it turns out it was actually Southampton?

 

Would it be like us trying to force an alliance with Juventus and subsequently deny all evidence that they took their kits from Notts County?

Think they're claiming there's something profound and especially special about them after all because another club chose the same colour and shirt design exclusively because of how inspired they were by them, despite the finite amount of colours and shirt designs to go around several thousand football clubs. Though turns out it was Southampton

 

Bilbao's first colours were blue and white halves ala Blackburn. Bet not one Blackburn fan gives a shit either way.

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2 hours ago, Wolfcastle said:

Even if it were true they'd still be being incredibly needily desperate. That they so desperatey want something to be true that isn't and would be no more than adopting a similar colour/design shirt anyway is tragic stuff. 

There probably will be some club somewhere that did copy the mackems shirt design and every other English clubs (Real Madrid copied Corinthian's ffs)

but something as simple as typing 'Bilbao original colours' into google gives the Southampton based student story (and the fact its the City's colours)

 

 

 

Sparta Rotterdam definitely adopted Sunderland’s colours

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KennyUtd

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9 hours ago, bhoywhonder said:

 

That cant be a real thread surely! I had to go over to sunderland about a month ago, the train station actually stunk of piss at platform level, the ground level concourse was full of charvers riding their bikes around shrieking, and at street level, it was just a pissheads paradise!

 

Re: the Bilbao link, I'm going to guess its just a desperation to be recognised because they have fuck all else? Although being recognised because of having the same strip 120 years ago? Like, who would ever give a shit?

 

 

 

 

Yep, it was "Newcastle's a shit hole, prove me wrong" or some such. To be fair, the first 20 or so posts were pretty complimentary about the city but it soon descended into insults about the outlying areas. There was even a "Gosforth isn't as nice as it thinks it is"!!!! And there's nothing in Sunderland as bad as Walker, Benwell etc.

Fkn morons man. 

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On 23/04/2025 at 13:05, KennyUtd said:

Just mental how they keep telling themselves that they're a great investment for somebody with loads of money. When has this ever been the case for them? Billionaires weren't queueing up when they were in the Prem nevermind now. Loads of other clubs would be a better proposition than those fucks.


46 pages now and Musk is being mentioned now :tino:

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11 hours ago, KennyUtd said:

Yep, it was "Newcastle's a shit hole, prove me wrong" or some such. To be fair, the first 20 or so posts were pretty complimentary about the city but it soon descended into insults about the outlying areas. There was even a "Gosforth isn't as nice as it thinks it is"!!!! And there's nothing in Sunderland as bad as Walker, Benwell etc.

Fkn morons man. 


half the fuckas live in Newcastle and the rest live in London. There’s about 3 jokers who go on about SR6 being the jewel in the Wears crown but no other twat on there admits to living in the place. 

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14 hours ago, OCOCOL said:


half the fuckas live in Newcastle and the rest live in London. There’s about 3 jokers who go on about SR6 being the jewel in the Wears crown but no other twat on there admits to living in the place. 

SR6 covers a variety of neighbourhoods, and includes the terraced cottages of Roker right along to the mansions of Cleadon. Its got areas many of you would like to live in and areas some of you might prefer not to live in. 

Right Move currently has listings from 67K to over 3 million in this post code area.

I live near the middle (in both senses, house is valued at almost exactly national average).  I'm 5 mins from the beach and a few pubs and restaurants, good distance to walk to when we fancy or avoid if its busy.

I've been here 20 years, seen a few changes, and think Sunderland (the city) finally seeing a bit of investment as a genuinely positive thing which rightly gives some locals a little bit of pride and optimism - if thats possible in this weird moment nationally/globally (in my point of view).

Of course there is a tendency for some people here to feel the need to compare everything to Newcastle and this is achingly boring, but it's not everyone. Empty vessels and all that.

 

Their football team is a clown car crashing in slow motion, and they are our nearest rivals so that's to be enjoyed, but the other stuff is nowt to me. I've lived in Newcastle too and worked alongside enough from both sides to know there are more things in common than differences between us all

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2 hours ago, Crayola Kid said:

SR6 covers a variety of neighbourhoods, and includes the terraced cottages of Roker right along to the mansions of Cleadon. Its got areas many of you would like to live in and areas some of you might prefer not to live in. 

Right Move currently has listings from 67K to over 3 million in this post code area.

I live near the middle (in both senses, house is valued at almost exactly national average).  I'm 5 mins from the beach and a few pubs and restaurants, good distance to walk to when we fancy or avoid if its busy.

I've been here 20 years, seen a few changes, and think Sunderland (the city) finally seeing a bit of investment as a genuinely positive thing which rightly gives some locals a little bit of pride and optimism - if thats possible in this weird moment nationally/globally (in my point of view).

Of course there is a tendency for some people here to feel the need to compare everything to Newcastle and this is achingly boring, but it's not everyone. Empty vessels and all that.

 

Their football team is a clown car crashing in slow motion, and they are our nearest rivals so that's to be enjoyed, but the other stuff is nowt to me. I've lived in Newcastle too and worked alongside enough from both sides to know there are more things in common than differences between us all

I agree with most of this but I'm pretty sure I haven't seen a thread on here about how shit Sunderland is. That's the difference between the 2 sets of supporters. Most of us dont give a toss. If there is 1 I'm sure it will be pointed out though.

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2 hours ago, Crayola Kid said:

SR6 covers a variety of neighbourhoods, and includes the terraced cottages of Roker right along to the mansions of Cleadon. Its got areas many of you would like to live in and areas some of you might prefer not to live in. 

Right Move currently has listings from 67K to over 3 million in this post code area.

I live near the middle (in both senses, house is valued at almost exactly national average).  I'm 5 mins from the beach and a few pubs and restaurants, good distance to walk to when we fancy or avoid if its busy.

I've been here 20 years, seen a few changes, and think Sunderland (the city) finally seeing a bit of investment as a genuinely positive thing which rightly gives some locals a little bit of pride and optimism - if thats possible in this weird moment nationally/globally (in my point of view).

Of course there is a tendency for some people here to feel the need to compare everything to Newcastle and this is achingly boring, but it's not everyone. Empty vessels and all that.

 

Their football team is a clown car crashing in slow motion, and they are our nearest rivals so that's to be enjoyed, but the other stuff is nowt to me. I've lived in Newcastle too and worked alongside enough from both sides to know there are more things in common than differences between us all

With work we do a lot of work and have a base in Sunderland.

There are a lot of nice areas in Sunderland, especially on the Southside when you get away from Hendon and Grangetown.

I can drive down boulevards in Sunderland with nice 1930’s style semi-detached home, absolutely stunning and anything like that in areas of Newcastle, and North Tyneside would be highly desirable and rather costly.

 

One thing that I have noticed is that they have a lot of parks/greenlands scattered about. Which is something that parts of Tyneside lack in comparison.

 

If you look at areas where that were typically taken the piss out of, like Pennywell, even those houses/areas look much nicer now, and have new estates in them. They look no rougher than an ordinary council estate now, which is something that’s happening across the country, including here on Tyneside.

 

Naturally it still has some estates and housing stock that makes you go ‘No thanks’, but to make out like Sunderland is a city full of soviet era styled brutalist nightmare, would be wide of the mark.

 

I do maintain that it is a town and not a city though. Newcastle before the alive after 5 initiative used to have criticism for it’s lack of things being open on nighttime that aren’t a bad, but it was never as bad as Sunderland is after 6pm. The whole town centre literally shuts down, that’s even on a Friday night.

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fair summary imo
 

Just got back from my Sunderland — the land that time, hope, and common sense forgot.
Nothing’s changed. Still no jobs, no future, just a sea of boarded-up shops and desperate faces. Generations locked in a death grip with Labour, voting the same way because misery feels safer than trying.

But there’s one thing Sunderland has truly perfected: dog shit.
It’s everywhere — pavements, parks, street corners, our beautiful landmarks and amazing coastline — a proud, steaming monument to our collective failure. I spent most of the trip warning my wife and kids, “Watch out!” and “Don’t step in that!” like some deranged tour guide through east Ukraine. Maybe that’s why everyone walks around with their heads down. 

Sunderland: a city so committed to being a shithole figuratively and literally it makes sure you can smell it on your shoes on the way out.

 

I was going to write an apology for my last post, given the reaction. It was not my intent to offend anyone. 

Then I remembered… I don’t give a fuck.

It’s my hometown too. I grew up there. I lived there.
And if calling out how run-down and hopeless it is upsets you, that’s your problem, not mine.

You’ve become so accustomed to it that you don’t even see it. I noticed it straight away — the filth, the decay, the hopelessness.
I see young lads getting a bad reputation and causing “trouble” — but what else are they supposed to do?
What should their parents tell them? “Hey lads, knock it off and instead go do… what?”

There’s nothing for them.
No future to aspire to.
No opportunity.
Just another generation trapped in the same cycle.

I feel bad for the kids.
I feel bad for the young blokes with nowhere to go and nothing to aim for.
I feel bad for the old people who spent their whole lives watching the place rot.
And I feel bad for the fucking losers who think it’s somehow “ok” because some other shithole might be worse.

One thing I do agree wit, a few people pointed it out, is the people.
The people are still very friendly. Proper, genuinely friendly. A joy to be around. Better than anywhere else I’ve lived. They deserve better.

My family, still there, deserves better.
Your kids, your families, your future — you all deserve better.

I despair.

Pretending Sunderland isn’t a shithole doesn’t make you loyal. It just makes you blind.

Loving Sunderland should mean wanting better, not pretending it’s fine. It’s not.

 

 

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