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Article about SAFC from Spain

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Hello there,

(apologies in advance if this is not the right place for this issue, and please forward me to the thread/area where I could write about this)

my name is Luis and I am a Spaniard living in London. While I have a day job in software dev, I write articles as a side project.

I've contacted the well-known Spanish printed magazine 'Panenka', that focuses on the emotional side of football, to write an article about SAFC. I also plan to release it online in English.
I have been interested in the club for years, and I will try to make justice to the impressive supporters community that doesn't fail, weekend after weekend, to support the team with a really high average attendance in the Stadium of Light, even in the hardest moments.

I'll spend a weekend in the city, attend a match (the Blackpool one is a little tight, probably the one with Southend, to give myself time to prepare the article) and see by myself what's going on in there.

So far I have arranged an interview with Rob Mason, probably you all know him, to get insights about the history of the club and a better understanding about how come SAFC has such a strong football love behind.

If you feel like helping me out with telling me any fan I should get in touch with, any recommendations to experience properly being a Mackem for a day, or just want to grab a beer during my visit, please do reach me out.

Many thanks!
 

There is/was a programme available that is about the fans but I can't find my link to it or remember where it was. Hopefully someone on the forum will remember and give details. It's the one where the priest gets the pope to bless a shirt.
 
ubik said:
Hello there,

(apologies in advance if this is not the right place for this issue, and please forward me to the thread/area where I could write about this)

my name is Luis and I am a Spaniard living in London. While I have a day job in software dev, I write articles as a side project.

I've contacted the well-known Spanish printed magazine 'Panenka', that focuses on the emotional side of football, to write an article about SAFC. I also plan to release it online in English.
I have been interested in the club for years, and I will try to make justice to the impressive supporters community that doesn't fail, weekend after weekend, to support the team with a really high average attendance in the Stadium of Light, even in the hardest moments.

I'll spend a weekend in the city, attend a match (the Blackpool one is a little tight, probably the one with Southend, to give myself time to prepare the article) and see by myself what's going on in there.

So far I have arranged an interview with Rob Mason, probably you all know him, to get insights about the history of the club and a better understanding about how come SAFC has such a strong football love behind.

If you feel like helping me out with telling me any fan I should get in touch with, any recommendations to experience properly being a Mackem for a day, or just want to grab a beer during my visit, please do reach me out.

Many thanks!
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Best of luck mate. Enjoy your visit.
 
ubik said:
Hello there,

(apologies in advance if this is not the right place for this issue, and please forward me to the thread/area where I could write about this)

my name is Luis and I am a Spaniard living in London. While I have a day job in software dev, I write articles as a side project.

I've contacted the well-known Spanish printed magazine 'Panenka', that focuses on the emotional side of football, to write an article about SAFC. I also plan to release it online in English.
I have been interested in the club for years, and I will try to make justice to the impressive supporters community that doesn't fail, weekend after weekend, to support the team with a really high average attendance in the Stadium of Light, even in the hardest moments.

I'll spend a weekend in the city, attend a match (the Blackpool one is a little tight, probably the one with Southend, to give myself time to prepare the article) and see by myself what's going on in there.

So far I have arranged an interview with Rob Mason, probably you all know him, to get insights about the history of the club and a better understanding about how come SAFC has such a strong football love behind.

If you feel like helping me out with telling me any fan I should get in touch with, any recommendations to experience properly being a Mackem for a day, or just want to grab a beer during my visit, please do reach me out.

Many thanks!
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Good luck with your article.

Maybe try contacting some of the supporters branches, or the lads that write or podcast about the club - wise men say, a love supreme and roker report.
 
Read this article by George Caulkin written before the 2014 League Cup final against Man City

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West_Winger said:
This Spanish lad was looking at all the Sunderland fans going mental and we were talking to him. He asked “what have you won??” When we told him we’d won nothing and this was just for getting to the final he walked away in wonderment :lol:
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:lol: it was mental mind. Fans literally climbing street light columns and diving off. Everyone pissed, chants being fired off left right and centre from all over London. Drink aisles in shops looking like a scene from 28 days later.
 
ubik said:
If you feel like helping me out with telling me any fan I should get in touch with, any recommendations to experience properly being a Mackem for a day, or just want to grab a beer during my visit, please do reach me out.
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I know a lad who came over from America just to go to a match. I met him in the city centre and took him to a couple of bars, then we walked over the bridge with the masses just before kick off. Then back over the bridge and into the town afterwards. He said he really enjoyed that as American stadiums tend to be out of town on their own, so people just tend to go to the a sports game and go away afterwards. He loved the atmosphere in the town before and after the match and just generally people watching.
 
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