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This airport craic

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DH1 Mackem JN

DH1 Mackem JN

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The mags have..
As said countless times on here..seems pretty pathetic - sat in Newcastle airport atm (I know look at me etc.) But looking around there is as much Sunderland AFC/SOL mentions as there is that lot.
Have they really got that little to shout about that they resort to something that isnt even theirs? :oops::oops:
 

DH1 Mackem JN said:
The mags have..
As said countless times on here..seems pretty pathetic - sat in Newcastle airport atm (I know look at me etc.) But looking around there is as much Sunderland AFC/SOL mentions as there is that lot.
Have they really got that little to shout about that they resort to something that isnt even theirs? :oops::oops:
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Yeah, they're adverts mate, which I assume the club pay for. The airport don't put them there because they like Sunderland.
 
WHD said:
Yeah, they're adverts mate, which I assume the club pay for. The airport don't put them there because they like Sunderland.
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Appreciate this but with this fact you'd think the mags wouldn't embarrass themselves by singing about it

girojim said:
It's jointly owned by 7 local councils and a private firm. It's as much Sunderlands as it is Newcastles
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See previous quote
 
Lot of out of date information here.

It is owned by Copenhagen airport, the local authorities of which Sunderland were the largest % holders, sold it.

There was an airport in Sunderland, there has never been one in Newcastle.

The international airport North of Newcastle bears it's name, quite logically, but fans of NUFC who live in Newcastle no more 'have an aiport of their own' than fans of SAFC who live in Sunderland
 
Mrjardine said:
Can I just ask when do they go on about the airport? I see it mentioned on here all the time but I've never come across one mag who has ever brought it up. Don't see why they would to be honest as it's a pretty pointless boast really.
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I thought that too, but I was taking the piss out of the mag at work (before you start aye I actually do work with a mag ;)) about some shite, and he actually came out with 'at least we have an airport' and walked off.

As for being a pointless boast, from the above experience it's a boast that is kept under wraps until you have absolutely nothing left.
 
Sunderland had an airport.

Back during WW2 there was a need for air cover to protect the mining, shipbuilding and shipping industries in the northeast so they asked newcastle if they'd mind having an aerodrome. They of course said no cos it would be dangerous and they didnt want to get hurt.

Sunderland of course stood up and said yes bring em on so the primary aerodrome became Usworth, leading to us knacking the germans at the expense of our city being one of the seven must heavily bombed of the war and a lot of what you see now, the scars of battle as it were.

Anyway, we won and the war ended then one time they tried landing a few jets on the airfield. The were of course loud as fuck so we weren't having that nonsense going on day and night, so a plan was hatched to fly em over newcastle. They weren't keen but we explained the nasty germans had gone now and some careful persuasion led them not only to accept our unwanted air traffic but actually boast about it for the next 60 years. Not bad.
 
Mrjardine said:
Can I just ask when do they go on about the airport? I see it mentioned on here all the time but I've never come across one mag who has ever brought it up. Don't see why they would to be honest as it's a pretty pointless boast really.
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Oh they do, that daft knacker who is their version of Wee Phille even had clubs singing along to his songs about it. Given it takes a special kind to take it serious mind.
 
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