It's staggering how despite Newcastles best efforts to give Sunderland a shot at the big time, SAFC have somehow managed to blow it. With your recent superior derby record and Newcastle dicking about with Carver, Mclaren etc, Sunderland should have been miles ahead and really made us mags suffer in the same way that we have ridiculed you lot for decades previously.
For once you should and could have been the big club in the North East, new generations from the area should have been chosing Sunderland as their team and we should have been languishing in your shadow like you were to us throughout the 90's and 00's.
Only Sunderland could pass up this golden opportunity. Cast your minds back one full year. We were relegated, out of the big league whilst you had the feel good factor, the local bragging rights and a premier league team who for once were looking up rather than down. How on earth you've fucked this one up i'll never know. Its a tragedy for Wearside that this golden opportunity has been allowed to pass
Now, unbelievably, it's Newcastle with the feel good factor, the star manager, the premier league status and again hinting that the good times could again be around the corner whilst Sunderland, are back in the championship, staring into the financial abyss with only the fading memories of recent derby successes to cuddle into.
Whilst you certainly won those battles, it is Newcastle United Football Club who have undoubtedly won the war.