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I don’t think people should go elsewhere if they disagree with me. I think that if they have a problem with SAFC being Sunderland’s club then it’s irreconcilable and they should probably direct their affections elsewhere.
Never ever heard anyone ever claim SAFC is only Sunderland’s club, has huge support from the surrounding region and now nationally as one of the few things the NE has exported over the over the last few decades has been people, it’s why we always have great support wherever we play.

Anyway each to their own, we ain’t going to agree, so have a good night, hope you’re going Saturday mind, it’s your club after all and we’re just imposters😉
 
Very nice of you since I have been for over 60 years.
You should have a bit more respect for Sunderland and Mackems then at your age.
Never ever heard anyone ever claim SAFC is only Sunderland’s club, has huge support from the surrounding region and now nationally as one of the few things the NE has exported over the over the last few decades has been people, it’s why we always have great support wherever we play.

Anyway each to their own, we ain’t going to agree, so have a good night, hope you’re going Saturday mind, it’s your club after all and we’re just imposters😉
I never said it’s only Sunderland’s club marra.
 
I have no respect for mackems who accept the skit from the scum up the road, you are Wearsiders in my eyes. FTM. Did you ever work marra's with anyone by the way?
Your opinion, or what we are in your eyes doesn’t really count in the scheme of things. Don’t let it eat you up marra.
 
Relevant point but Sunderland is about the sea and ships, beaches etc. Durham lot will just have to buy into that surely.
No. My blood is black with coal dust. Fuck your stupid ships. But id be interested to know if you have any decent restaurants?
Sunderland, Tyne & Wear for me. My point being that some people seem to have a chip on their sho
Sunderland, Tyne & Wear for me.
Fog on the Tyne is Gazza's farts. Fog on the Wear are Cuthbert's evaporated tears. If you can't tell the difference, shame on you.
All my life. Was born in the 70s. If you don’t like it don’t support our team.
You seem like a proper tit.
 
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This thread is for Sunderland though.

He knows not of what he speaks (this thread should be about Sunderland supporters and their widespread distribution) we all love the club, who gives a fuck if we EVER lived in Sunderland. The clubs support NEVER but NEVER came from within the town(City) of Sunderland itself.

OP needs to do some research about SAFC attendees and grow up a bit.
Put the glue down before you start posting

I think you included the glue in yours kidda.
 
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I’m born and bread in the heartland of the Durham Coalfield in 1950. Sunderland was our town, people got dressed up to go on a Saturday. We are proud of our maritime history, our beautiful beaches and our history going back to the Venerable Bede.
The hundreds of pit villages sent coachloads to Roker Park to watch their beloved Sunderland AFC. They made up the vast numbers along with fans from South Tyneside when we regularly got 50-60k in the 1960’s. It’s a pity that more town people of Sunderland did not attend home games, my hope is this regime build a successful team and we can help fill the stadium, with these fans.
I eat and breathe Sunderland and have always enjoyed having the interest of learning about our history, both SAFC and Sunderland, the city as well as Co Durham. I’ve been a season card holder for many years.
I’ve been exiled for 30 years with work in Yorkshire but always extol all things Sunderland and Co Durham to whoever will listen. Many, many say ‘ I didn’t realise Sunderland was on the coast’ ???
We need to make more of our town.
Well said mate and exactly how I feel.
 
You haven’t got a clue. If you’d been born and gone matches in 60’s and 70’s it was all ‘Geordie aggro’. I travelled with John Tennick and the official supporters club from his Dundas Street shop, all the buses lined up on a Friday night for a 12 o clock start. Near where Jackson’s is now.
I’m not deaf or blind, I’ve seen footage of the games and scenes you describe. I don’t need to explain myself to the likes of you, however; I never said that people did not call themselves geordies, all I am saying is that, regardless of it’s origins, the word Mackem was already in common parlance by the 70’s and had already been adopted as a way of separating ourselves from the absolute embarrassment that geordies were becoming and have subsequently taken to a whole new level. No one ever gets away with calling me a geordie.
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Bollox. Never happened.
yes it did. Stop spreading shite as fact.
 
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Knows.
I used to drink in newcastle city centre from 1976 to 1982, the first time I ever heard the word mackem was in 1982 when some mag found out I was from Sunderland. He shout "your a Mackem" I said a what, he said a Mackem and tackem followed by wheez keez a theez. The first time I heard someone from Sunderland call themselves a Mackem was at Roker Park, the last night time game ever there when we played Southampton in 1999. The crowd were singing a song about being Geordies and he started shouting "we're not Geordies were Mackem".
It makes me sad now when young people think being called a Mackem is a compliment.

Bollox. Never happened.
Sunderland folk and the clubs fans have took mackem and turned it into a badge of honour.
Much like Spurs and the Yid word, cracovia and the Jude gang, Ajax and their Jewish association.
 
He knows not of what he speaks (this thread should be about Sunderland supporters and their widespread distribution) we all love the club, who gives a fuck if we EVER lived in Sunderland. The clubs support NEVER but NEVER came from within the town(City) of Sunderland itself.

OP needs to do some research about SAFC attendees and grow up a bit.


I think you included the glue in yours kidda.
“NEVER”…funny how it’s called Sunderland then :lol:
Sunderland folk and the clubs fans have took mackem and turned it into a badge of honour.
Much like Spurs and the Yid word, cracovia and the Jude gang, Ajax and their Jewish association.
This is not true. It was always ours
 
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I know, Miners needed good skills to survive, it was hard work and many ai knew lived long and active lives, most were the salt of the earth. I never thought about going down the it, the year I left school was the bulge year 1962, plenty of jobs too many kids. Started apprenticeship ar £5:12:6d the other chance was 30 bob, so I chose that, wasn’t for me. My tongue in cheek sounds a bit more serious than yours but that’s what it was. lying in water between the tracks scarred mre for life, three and a half days with a hammer and chisel, I never misssed the chisel again. Bent fingers are handy for playing the keyboard.

Mind how they stuck eotking on a dick bottom in winter is beyond me. Truth is they eere all shit jobs.
Above One of the results of three days with a hammer and chisel and being told to hurry up. It can takes me a while to type this in, it really tells when you get older.
 
Sunderland folk and the clubs fans have took mackem and turned it into a badge of honour.
Much like Spurs and the Yid word, cracovia and the Jude gang, Ajax and their Jewish association.
Agree a few have BUT those fans of a certain age have never accepted Mackem which ridicules the Wearside dialect.
 
Agree a few have BUT those fans of a certain age have never accepted Mackem which ridicules the Wearside dialect.
Generally Mackems have always accepted it as their identity. Non Mackems seem to be the ones who have a problem with it. I find it hilarious that some people regard it as a slur invented by Geordies in the 1980s...those people who think that are not in the know.
 
I’m not deaf or blind, I’ve seen footage of the games and scenes you describe. I don’t need to explain myself to the likes of you, however; I never said that people did not call themselves geordies, all I am saying is that, regardless of it’s origins, the word Mackem was already in common parlance by the 70’s and had already been adopted as a way of separating ourselves from the absolute embarrassment that geordies were becoming and have subsequently taken to a whole new level. No one ever gets away with calling me a geordie.

yes it did. Stop spreading shite as fact.
Wasn't in common parlance in the 70's. Watch a re run of the 73 cup final, not one mention of Mackem anywhere, loads of mentions of Geordies. Or the 74 cup final, plenty of times it was mentioned a Geordie team had never been defeated at Wembley until the mags got beat. If you're so sure Mackem was in common parlance in the 70's or even 80's it won't be hard to find a news headline from that time with the word Mackem. I used to work and drink with mags and the first time I heard Mackem being used to describe us was in 1982. I think you have a selective memory.
 
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