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What constitutes as classy behaviour in Sunderland?

On this forum I see racism and homophobia on almost a daily basis. Calling Demba Ba flubber lips, hoping his knees explode and hoping our team plane crashed when landing in Maritimo (real classy that one.)

We are a bigger and better club so you suddenly came up with his class bullshit after we beat yous 5-1 as a way of trying to claim some sort of bizarre pride back, but in reality it's a load of shit.

Not saying all NUFC fans are angels, we have our idiots too, but this whole 'we're more classy than you' is just a load of childish, cringeworthy bollocks.

I would give up the career as a fish kid.
 
What constitutes as classy behaviour in Sunderland?

On this forum I see racism and homophobia on almost a daily basis. Calling Demba Ba flubber lips, hoping his knees explode and hoping our team plane crashed when landing in Maritimo (real classy that one.)

We are a bigger and better club so you suddenly came up with his class bullshit after we beat yous 5-1 as a way of trying to claim some sort of bizarre pride back, but in reality it's a load of shit.

Not saying all NUFC fans are angels, we have our idiots too, but this whole 'we're more classy than you' is just a load of childish, cringeworthy bollocks.

Don't ya just love phone boxes.
 
What a f***ing embarrassing thread. You all want to give your heads a shake. You's all sound like kids arguing in a school yard.
 
What constitutes as classy behaviour in Sunderland?

On this forum I see racism and homophobia on almost a daily basis. Calling Demba Ba flubber lips, hoping his knees explode and hoping our team plane crashed when landing in Maritimo (real classy that one.)

We are a bigger and better club so you suddenly came up with his class bullshit after we beat yous 5-1 as a way of trying to claim some sort of bizarre pride back, but in reality it's a load of shit.

Not saying all NUFC fans are angels, we have our idiots too, but this whole 'we're more classy than you' is just a load of childish, cringeworthy bollocks.

Explain being a 'bigger and better' club?
 
I think a lot of the unsavoury stuff that goes on up the road nowadays is a result of their being in the eye of the storm when the whole "commercialisation" of football happened.

John Hall was a sound businessman and whilst the invention of the "geordie nation", "entertainers" and "everyone's second team" was a bit of a marketing masterstroke, it did nothing for preserving what the club used to be about.

(The majority of) Newcastle fans bought in to all that manufacturered rubbish (like they were supposed to) and first started to believe it all; then tried to live up to it. The result was a parody of the club NUFC used to be - we've since seen them hold mock funerals, boycoutts, wave club issue flags in unison, don their cardboard king kev crowns, wave their shoes around and dance about to the portly opera fellow who is rolled out at derby games to remind them what mad, passionate geordies they are. The proportion of fully grown men that attend Newcastle games in replica shirts is a hell of a lot higher than the number of Sunderland fans that do the same. The whole thing has become very "fake"; and is increasingly akin to an american sports franchise. Mike Ashley, another clever businessman, saw the potential in it and a whole new chapter of barrel scraping has begun with him.

Now I'm in no way saying that Sunderland are completely detached from the commercialisation of football because we are not. However I do think that our club and fanbase are a lot more in touch with the "real" core of the club. In that respect we're lucky - our yo-yo existence over the money years meant we were never in a position to attract so many fairweather fans as Newcastle did; and when relative, prolonged success did eventually come it's been under the stewardship of a genuine football man as chairman rather than an exploitative businessman. It remains to be seen whether Ellis Short will continue to steer the ship in the direction that Quinn did, or will instead choose to go down the "Newcastle" route; but it's to be hoped that he does not.
 
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The rest of the country see mags in rep. shirts as a joke.I vaguely remember an ad.with nick Lindhirst.Dont know what they were selling,but he was playing a dozy twonk,and sitting on a settee behind him were 2 or 3 blobs in black and white shirts.The national media see you as a joke and we are happy to agree.What was the name of that supporters group that wanted to buy the club?Did they want you to pay your pension contributions into it?That went well.I'd advise any mags reading this thread to boycoutt and post that mentions class.
 
I think a lot of the unsavoury stuff that goes on up the road nowadays is a result of their being in the eye of the storm when the whole "commercialisation" of football happened.

John Hall was a sound businessman and whilst the invention of the "geordie nation", "entertainers" and "everyone's second team" was a bit of a marketing masterstroke, it did nothing for preserving what the club used to be about.

(The majority of) Newcastle fans bought in to all that manufacturered rubbish (like they were supposed to) and first started to believe it all; then tried to live up to it. The result was a parody of the club NUFC used to be - we've since seen them hold mock funerals, boycoutts, wave club issue flags in unison, don their cardboard king kev crowns, wave their shoes around and dance about to the portly opera fellow who is rolled out at derby games to remind them what mad, passionate geordies they are. The proportion of fully grown men that attend Newcastle games in replica shirts is a hell of a lot higher than the number of Sunderland fans that do the same. The whole thing has become very "fake"; and is increasingly akin to an american sports franchise. Mike Ashley, another clever businessman, saw the potential in it and a whole new chapter of barrel scraping has begun with him.

Now I'm in no way saying that Sunderland are completely detached from the commercialisation of football because we are not. However I do think that our club and fanbase are a lot more in touch with the "real" core of the club. In that respect we're lucky - our yo-yo existence over the money years meant we were never in a position to attract so many fairweather fans as Newcastle did; and when relative, prolonged success did eventually come it's been under the stewardship of a genuine football man as chairman rather than an exploitative businessman. It remains to be seen whether Ellis Short will continue to steer the ship in the direction that Quinn did, or will instead choose to go down the "Newcastle" route; but it's to be hoped that he does not.

aye, and they are bellends
 
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