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A question for the "older" posters on here:
What was the culture of our rivalry like with Newcastle before the John Hall/Sky/Keegan era?
I've been reading through the other mag threads on here in response to the Chelsea game and obviously it couldn't be more visible how their fans are almost cult-like, riddled with mass delusion, over-entitlement and an inability to accept the reality of their club's situation. Similarly, when you look at our responses to this, it seems that our contempt for them has only intensified as a reaction to this kind of culture, as well as having been profoundly alienated by rhetoric such as "geordie nation", plastic fans and related shit as the 90s panned out.
This really makes me wonder how things were between the two sets of fans before this all started. As we know the rivalry was very much there in the 1980s, but am I to assume it was a lot more equal and level headed? Was there less open arrogance on display? And before terms such as "delusion" came round, how would we have described them?
What was the culture of our rivalry like with Newcastle before the John Hall/Sky/Keegan era?
I've been reading through the other mag threads on here in response to the Chelsea game and obviously it couldn't be more visible how their fans are almost cult-like, riddled with mass delusion, over-entitlement and an inability to accept the reality of their club's situation. Similarly, when you look at our responses to this, it seems that our contempt for them has only intensified as a reaction to this kind of culture, as well as having been profoundly alienated by rhetoric such as "geordie nation", plastic fans and related shit as the 90s panned out.
This really makes me wonder how things were between the two sets of fans before this all started. As we know the rivalry was very much there in the 1980s, but am I to assume it was a lot more equal and level headed? Was there less open arrogance on display? And before terms such as "delusion" came round, how would we have described them?
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