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Durham mags.......

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NorthCountryBoy said:
Definitely possible in the NE with a trained ear.

There's a difference between parts of Newcastle and Gateshead for example. Lee Clark has an accent that no one from Gateshead would.
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Doubt it
So your saying you can tell the difference between a resident of Ryton or Blaydon & Heburn or Jarrow ?
 
Captain Calamity said:
This topic causes a lot of upset normally. I'm a Geordie. I hate the term 'Mackem' - it was a term of attempted slur by people with a Tyneside accent. I remember when we sang "Geordie Boys" "We're Geordies, we're mental, we're off wa fkin heads" etc etc etc. The term 'Mackem' has grown to be used now by a younger generation who believe it is a term to identify with Sunderland.

My Granda would say we were all Geordies (newcastle, Sunderland, Durham & some of Northumberland), the way to differentiate would be Tynesider or Wearsider or Durham lad etc. BTW he was a pitman from Silksworth.

Not a popular post I imagine, but stop letting Mags steal our identity man.

I've supported SAFC since 1969, was born in Newcastle to parents from Sunderland and Durham and brought up in Northumberland. I'm a Geordie and tell anyone I meet abroad that 'Mackems' don't exist - it's a Mag term ! Tin hat on :eek:
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Aye but it’s clear as day it’s now a positive term for us as a group of people. Language is not

I live in Newcastle now and if anyone asks me, I’m proudly a Mackem.

0321safc said:
I know a few actual geordies who aren’t bad. Every single mag I know of personally from outside the city - Seaham, Durham, Hartlepool, Sedgefield, Coxhoe etc. are wankers of the highest calibre.
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I work directly with three mags. One from Penshaw, one from Washy and the other is Welsh.

All canny lads until they get on the topic of football and more than one of them is around. Absolutely fine and reasonable when it’s just one of them talking about football.
 
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Quinnymelad said:
Yes they are. Thats because most of them jumped ship during keegans wankathon, whereas the Northumberland lads have honoured their family ties and stayed loyal to the red n whites.
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We are going about this the wrong way and playing into NUFC hands with the anti geordie thing- the mags hate to see geordie sunderland supporters-its like their own have turned- we should promote this- there used to be a gateshead geordies flag with safc on it in the southstand - mags hated that
 
Left For Dead said:
We are going about this the wrong way and playing into NUFC hands with the anti geordie thing- the mags hate to see geordie sunderland supporters-its like their own have turned- we should promote this- there used to be a gateshead geordies flag with safc on it in the southstand - mags hated that
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I've said, for years, that we should sing the old 'Geordie' songs especially in televised games, had very little positive response tbh.

I remember being on the terraces at Blackburn when the whole Sunderland end sang 'Geordies', to the tune of Mull of Kintyre, for at least 30 minutes.

Great days :cool:
 
Reiver said:
I've said, for years, that we should sing the old 'Geordie' songs especially in televised games, had very little positive response tbh.

I remember being on the terraces at Blackburn when the whole Sunderland end sang 'Geordies', to the tune of Mull of Kintyre, for at least 30 minutes.

Great days :cool:
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It would kill the mags- in the game of divide and conquer they won- irreversible now the geordie/mag tag
 
Left For Dead said:
It would kill the mags- in the game of divide and conquer they won- irreversible now the geordie/mag tag
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My views have changed over the years mate.

I wouldn't want to be seen as the pathetic uber-Geordie 'look at me I'm a Geordie, listen to how I talk, party town Newcastle yer kna' wankers.

Any celebrity, from anywhere in the NE, plays up to the horrible stereotype these days .... they can keep it mate, I'm better than that.
 
The way I see it is, if your from anywhere in County Durham you should support Sunderland...yeah of course there are plenty of family ties that change it but if not and your a mag your just small minded. As in “that’s just the team of the north east”
 
Reiver said:
That's how we referred to ourselves in those days.

It wasn't until John Hall, and his pathetic Geordie Nation shite, that things started to change.
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@Reiver is spot on with this
I was born in Consett and was always brought up being a Geordie.
We went two miles to Shotley,crossedthe river and we were in Northumberland
I’m 60 now and supported Sunderland all my life. ( my uncle was Len Shackletons best man so the family loyalty shifted at that point)

I now live in Devon and still get either “Geordie” or “Mackem”
I answer to both.

By the way anyone got a Plymouth ticket spare
 
Spelthorne mackem said:
@Reiver is spot on with this
I was born in Consett and was always brought up being a Geordie.
We went two miles to Shotley,crossedthe river and we were in Northumberland
I’m 60 now and supported Sunderland all my life. ( my uncle was Len Shackletons best man so the family loyalty shifted at that point)

I now live in Devon and still get either “Geordie” or “Mackem”
I answer to both.

By the way anyone got a Plymouth ticket spare
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I'm from Allendale Cottages, near Medomsley, near Consett and born in Shotley Bridge hospital.

I have a great Sunderland supporting mate living in Exeter.

I can help you with a ticket ;)
 
Reiver said:
I'm from Allendale Cottages, near Medomsley, near Consett and born in Shotley Bridge hospital.

I have a great Sunderland supporting mate living in Exeter.

I can help you with a ticket ;)
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Is that Wayne the punk.
I think there are a few of us in the area
Peterlee James is down here
Devonian is a new member

Interestingly I lived in Surrey/ Middlesex (Shepperton) for 30 years and fancied going back to one of your get togethers quite recently. I think it was the bloody hammering at Southampton.

Ironically I had a canny day out that day.
 
Norseman said:
The way I see it is, if your from anywhere in County Durham you should support Sunderland...yeah of course there are plenty of family ties that change it but if not and your a mag your just small minded. As in “that’s just the team of the north east”
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You're wrong, I know a good lot of lads fans from Northumberland an lot a good mags from NW Durham..
 
I was born and bred in Newcastle and have a Geordie twang (obviously). It's my hometown and will always be home, despite living on Wearside now and supporting SAFC because of my old man. Am I not welcome?! There seems some fairly cut and dried opinions on who should be supporting who based on where they're from!!!
 
Qwerty said:
You're wrong, I know a good lot of lads fans from Northumberland an lot a good mags from NW Durham..
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It’s my opinion. I’m not saying I’m right but it’s very common in the north east that people who don’t follow football that much just support the mags and don’t really have an answer for it. Fine, it’s your choice who you support but many have the small minded answer somewhere along the lines of-“it’s just the team of the north east”
 
Norseman said:
It’s my opinion. I’m not saying I’m right but it’s very common in the north east that people who don’t follow football that much just support the mags and don’t really have an answer for it. Fine, it’s your choice who you support but many have the small minded answer somewhere along the lines of-“it’s just the team of the north east”
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I've never met anybody who has described NUFC as the NE team and I'm not a spring chicken and travelled quite a bit.
 
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