Norton
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Only a mag would concern himself so much that he needs to question a Spurs fan for saying something positive about SAFC! Non-media bias against Newcastle, be reported on Look North Korea later!
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rez9000
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LMAO! You should hear me ACTUALLY try any kind of North-East accent. I'd make you want to rip your ears off!
Can we have the next non attending mag along to query our new poster please?
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rez9000
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Thanks, man! Very unlikely after the Everton-Chelsea result, but never say never....This @rez9000 spurs fan has only been here 2 minutes and has the resident mags on here rattled
Hope you win the league mate
GlasgowMackem88
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Possibly so, but you've gradually got better over recent years and stronger near the top. It might not be this year but I reckon it'll happen in the near future. Solid set up, quality football and an excellent manager, and often just wipe the floor with sides.
Millwall are lower in the football league and a spurs win was clearly expected but it was literally men against boys. Should have been more than 6
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rez9000
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LOL! I'm not too proud to admit that they've been a bogey team to us - being battered 5-1 on the final day of last season is prime example!
It's weird, it was lovely seeing us score so many, but the highlight for me was Vincent Janssen getting one! There's a real fear around Spurs fans that he'll become another Roberto Soldado (lots of promise, but failure to deliver).Possibly so, but you've gradually got better over recent years and stronger near the top. It might not be this year but I reckon it'll happen in the near future. Solid set up, quality football and an excellent manager, and often just wipe the floor with sides.
Millwall are lower in the football league and a spurs win was clearly expected but it was literally men against boys. Should have been more than 6
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Wey, that's not the issue at all, it's more like every 'fan of another club' needs to justify their good thoughts about Sunderland by having equally distasteful thoughts about Newcastle. It's almost like they don't believe their opinions will be fully considered until they have been negative about Newcastle.
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rez9000
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Apologies, my friend, but you don't know me and I don't know you. All I'm doing is stating what my impressions are and mentioning them where relevant. If you read a little further up, you'll see that I freely admit that part of my distaste for Newcastle is related to the fact they've been a bogey team for Spurs over the seasons.
But, for example, I've not said you specifically have a sense of entitlement. I've not made any judgements about you and the manner of your support. If I feel a particular way about Newcastle and choose to mention it on a Sunderland thread, perhaps that's the totality of the situation and that there is no other motivation behind it? Is that feasible?
Why mention Newcastle at all? They're not relevant to your opinion of Sunderland, are they?
GlasgowMackem88
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I was working down in London at the time, had to have a pint after working over the weekend, the 6th went in, and a couple of blokes just bust out laughing, believe it or not they were Chelsea fans but a mate of theirs who was a Spurs fan was in earlier that day that had left to go to the game had a tenner on 6-0
can't remember the odds but he'd won a decent wedge !
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rez9000
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I was working down in London at the time, had to have a pint after working over the weekend, the 6th went in, and a couple of blokes just bust out laughing, believe it or not they were Chelsea fans but a mate of theirs who was a Spurs fan was in earlier that day that had left to go to the game had a tenner on 6-0
Oh, lucky guy! The odds must have been amazing!mr chuckles
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Lol all the mags on here getting worked up man
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rez9000
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Quite the reverse. It demonstrates another aspect of my affinity. If you read my OP again, you'll see that my warmth of feeling for Sunderland is many-faceted. It's the history of the club (which I freely acknowledge Newcastle have too), but also my own experience of Sunderland fans and a personal shared rivalry.
There'll be Liverpool fans, for instance who will want Spurs to win the League (unlikely, after what happened at Goodison) because of the rivalry that formed between Liverpool and Chelsea during the Mourinho era. I have a soft-spot for Brighton too because I used to go there to the seaside when I was a kid, so that may also stoke anti-Newcastle feeling. The alliances and motivations behind football tribalism go beyond just the 'official' ones.
Perhaps not. But you're one of the oldest clubs in the League. Your history runs right through (obviously, not the only club that has that characteristic).
It's more about there being A Sunderland in the top flight, rather than specifically THIS Sunderland.
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joemcdokes
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I'd want us to stay up as well if I was you and got your mandatory 3 points off us at home every season.
How many points have we actually took from you lot in 10 seasons, can't be many.
I certainly won't miss playing Spurs.
How many points have we actually took from you lot in 10 seasons, can't be many.
I certainly won't miss playing Spurs.
Nobody in the top flight misses a team thats always just hanging round the bottom making up the numbers each season. Nobody was disappointed when Coventry went down, or Wimbledon, or Bolton, or Wigan, or Newcastle, same for Sunderland now.
A team perennially engaged in a relegation scrap adds nothing for anybody.
Newcastle were the same for a few years before we went down as well. Just a pointless team filling up the league, like the others i listed as well.
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rez9000
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LOL! Even with a couple of relatively good seasons, I've still not lost the 'Spursey' feeling. Every game makes me quake still!I'd want us to stay up as well if I was you and got your mandatory 3 points off us at home every season.
How many points have we actually took from you lot in 10 seasons, can't be many.
I certainly won't miss playing Spurs.
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rez9000
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Well, if that's the case, why have relegations at all?
And yes, there is a stratification in the top flight of football, which I think saps the spirit of competition out of the game. But that's not the main point here. The main point is this, from a personal perspective:
My first away game was at the age of 16 when my brother, as a birthday present, took me to watch us play Wimbledon at Selhurst Park. Christian Gross, he of the Travelcard, was our manager (dear God, save me!), and we were in real danger of relegation, but had just brought Klinsmann back for his second spell. We won that day - 6-2. Was amazing. And we avoided relegation. Now, 23 years later, we're title challengers. Things change in football. OK, so Sunderland aren't doing well right now, but who knows that will happen down the line.
I reject utterly the idea that some few clubs are destined for glory with all the others making up the numbers.
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