I was just thinking this. Does any other clubs have players do this ****e as soon as they get there?
It must be their media team? Its happened for years and I can only imagine everytime someone new starts with the media team and they are being shown the ropes the person showing them around says "one easy way to get positive attention from this lot is to get a player to say they have slept in Mag pj's since they were 4 and think Sunderland are ****e"
"Even if they are from deepest darkest peru and Paddington bear was their nearest neighbour for 250 miles say they grew up loving the mags and hate Sundrland! They will lap that **** up!"
It’s incredibly childish isn’t it and no, I don’t see Ipswich and Norwich players, as an example, carrying on like this. Not even Southampton and Portsmouth who hate each other unless it’s derby time.
Trippier is basically saying he wants a team of fellow professionals to suffer relegation based entirely on them being local rivals. Did he ever carry on like this at Spurs, I doubt it.
It has to be in response to the peculiar mentality of the Mags who always seem to get their ‘banter’ slightly wrong and it falls flat. The magpie in a top hat looked silly and the massive banner about ‘the regional capital’ was ridiculous. No one outside Tyneside would know wtf it was about and Sunderland supporters couldn’t care less even it was true … it isn’t.
The Mags were singing about Ryan Taylor who’s a middle aged bloke in a cardigan …
… yes, seeing his face on the big screen really hurt

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