mackem35
Winger
I would counteract that with Ha'way the lads was said all over the north east until the Geordies decided they didnt like the idea of anybody but them using it and howay was taken up. Watched a repeat of Alan Partridge and the geordie lad on there (yes I know he isnt a real geordie) said haway the lads. Us adopting mackem is no different to fans in the south east distancing themselves from everybody being a cockney. No issue with Mr Robson being a geordie but had he beem a mass murderer or paedo def would have been a mackem. They pick and choose, Durham county cricket tick, Frankland prison, full of mackems apparently.He was absolutely a Geordie.
Arguably one of the finest. I don't know many Mackems who have a bad word to say about him.
He also grew up in a time where the vast majority of people form the North East were "Geordies".
Apparently even Sunderland fans were singing about being geordie in 1973.