Sorry but you're not even close. Sunderland people have a different accent and words you'll never hear around Durham. Anyway, you seem convinced the accents are the same and it's not worth a lengthy debate imo.
I grew up in Seaham an East Durham pit village, the folk there aren’t Mackems or Wearsiders. I was born in Sunderland moved to Peterlee at 6 months till I was 12. Moved to Seaham till I was 48 and now in Grangetown. I’m not that arsed about it as I’m from County Durham but the lads I grew up with don’t class themselves as Mackems. I’m a bit of a mongrel like.
Where I live and surrounding towns have always been more or less 50/50 support. Determined mostly on dads genes rather than location
You're confusing accent and dialect, accent is the sound and dialect is the vocabulary. Think about vowels and diphthongs of Geordie and Smoggies, they make sounds that seem odd to us because they do not exist in our accent. But yes, we use different diction, that's normal.
That's the rules, you can support one of 3 football teams acceptably. A. The closest to where you're born B. You're Dad's if his wasn't A. C. You're Granda's team if it wasn't A or B. But if they're a successful club you must prove beyond a doubt it was actually his team.
So to summarise, Sunderland AFC's fanbase comes from all over the North East not just Sunderland itself. From Ashington in the North to Stockton in the South, and from Seaham in the East to Consett in the West. If we were to have more than 2 "big" clubs in the North East such as in the North West our support would be considerably less. The diversity of towns and villages that have Sunderland fans is our strength and not a weakness. Other wise we would be like Bolton, Preston, Burnley et al. A parochial "small time" club
Why do you dislike Sunderland City and the Mackem people? Is the club not named after it? Nobody disputes supporters can come from Consett or Congo, but the beating heart is in the city and that should be respected.
I don't dislike Sunderland or it's population why would I ? You seem to be prejudiced against anybody who isn't from Sunderland by specifically stating that you would rather have 20,000 "Mackems" going than the 40,000 in which half might not be "Mackems" . I want all to go, you would rather half didn't. All irrelevant really as you outed yourself as being from Seaham and not Sunderland earlier
Odd, I think you're confusing me with someone else. You dislike Sunderland being a Mackem club and try to obfuscate and muddy the waters by introducing other elements, to cause doubt. Sunderland is a club from Sunderland, whose people are Mackems, again anyone from Consett to Congo can follow the lads, but dont try and desconstruct our identity. We are a Mackem club.
You'd never get this crap in Newcastle btw. Imagine if their Geordieness was challenged? "But actually there are also Mackems and Cockneys..", they'd tell them to fck off.
By that logic only schoolteachers can follow Sunderland AND DISTRICT schoolteachers Football Club as that was who founded the club.
No as it was obfuscation. I will go out on a limb here and state with some certanity that nobody from Congo actually attends matches
The river Wear runs through Washington. You could be born in Fatfield, Mount pleasant, Coxgreen area etc....all on the banks of the Wear. That makes you a Wearsider.
Likely the case there’s as many non-Mackem as Mackem at the game surely? County Durham, Washy, South Tyneside, parts of Gateshead. Massive pockets of SAFC fans who ain’t Mackems. I was born Ashbrooke raised Fulwell, so I class myself as Mackem royalty. Wider family is Hylton Castle/Hendon and they are for sure the most ‘Mackem sounding’
