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Stuck in a meeting but not been able to watch. Keen to know if anybody who wasn't sure on him feel a bit more comfortable after that press conference?
 
Argh I was setting down to watch it and some bugger called me with work to do, do people not know this you are supposed to wind down this week ?

hopefully they will have an offline copy soon
 
Sorry Smug. You are wrong. Mackem and Tackem is a phrase coined to boast of the towns shipbuilding and repairing industry. It differentiated between Sunderland and the towns that either just built or just repaired ships. A sort of “so there! Yaya ye yaya” sort of thing. If delivered by a child it would be followed by a tongue sticking out.

"We Mackem and they Tackem"

Slang for "We Make them and they take them".
 
"We Mackem and they Tackem"

Slang for "We Make them and they take them".
As I understand it, "we [the shipyard workers] mak 'em and ye [the harbour pilots/tugboat captains who move the ships after completion] tak 'em". The piss-taking element of the nickname being based on the pronunciation of the words "make" and "take".

As for Cockney - https://www.etymonline.com/word/cockney