Hi all, I've supported SAFC for almost 50 years but this is my first post on this forum. I started my "love in" when I was still living (and at school) in Newcastle and so it, naturally, follows that I had quite a few "Mag" mates, who I got along with well and the "banter" was what I enjoyed most. So, the degree of supposed (or actual) animosity/hatred shown by supporters of either club towards the other I see as juvenile and stupid. People who fail to see that there are decent people (and idiots) supporting both clubs are, for me, ignorant! It, therefore, gave me great pleasure to find an article that, I think, reinforces my point. http://www.true-faith.co.uk/tf/letters.nsf/0/2D3D57823450E3F3802578D00043A2AA?OpenDocument It is too long to include in this post but (IMHO) well worth the read! To me it demonstrates that we all care about the same things with the only difference being which team we support!
I fully agree that the thing that makes us such great rivals is the fact that we are as passionate and loyal as each other. We're both better by having eachother, it's a simple fact, we both have our fair share of pillocks, but that's fine, you need the whole set of paints to make a good picture. I don't like them, cos i can't, but i don't 'hate' them and i certainly respect them.
' So, the degree of supposed (or actual) animosity/hatred shown by supporters of either club towards the other I see as juvenile and stupid. People who fail to see that there are decent people (and idiots) supporting both clubs are, for me, ignorant! ' Wow not holding back on your first post. I can see where this one will end up, I reckon in the next few hours you will see the amount of annomosity between the 2 sets of fans on here.
i agree but the problem is all the tossers come over onto each others boards so we only ever meet the WUMS and never meet the decent people. this may seem pointless since im on your board but theres **** all news on my board
Wait for the derby dual board thread... I imagine the good posters from both sides will swamp out the WUM's it'll be a cracking thread.
Aye, it's a ****ing shame though, i'd sooner we'd had 6 weeks for both our teams to gel and settle, it means one of our derbies likely has no impact on the season whatsoever, bit of a waste.
Agree with the original OP entirely. I just don't get how one set of fans can hate the other to the point of being entirely unable to have a decent "conversation" on a message board. I can understand how the two sets of fans can hate each other on derby day when confronted with a bloc of "the opposition" and I've swapped the odd punch with them the streets surrounding Roker Park. But how can you just hate people one-on-one for supporting the other team? Strange...
What a cracking read Vet, bit long but i enjoyed it immensely, due to the crocodile tears from the mags, now when i was young i actually was supporting the mags in the fa cup when they got beat, with super Mac as the striker. roll forward a few years and a new breed of mag emerges thick, intolerant , nasty vindictive i could go on but that's enough for now, We still have some very nice ones Overseas Toon being my favorite as a nice human being and all round good guy. Unfortunately the ones we meet here are the vindictive little cretins examples are JoKeR, 5-1, Tash, I **** next to a badger, the list goes on all they want to do, is one upmanship, and to rub it in if any bad news happens here, after a while of getting your back up you become less tolerant of them in any guise, They even give themselves new accounts now with mackem titles just to wind us up, yet if we go on their and do the same we are deleted, which brings us back to the start, love the article, and the more the club suffer under Agent [ Lord Ashley of Pennywell] THE MORE I LIKE IT, as we have had our cousins from the darkside ram their superiority and we are the biggest club mentality, down our throats for years now, and as we see the tides now turning, they look for sympathy from us, not on your ****ing Nellie from me mate.
Couldn't agree more ! The older fans - and the more intelligent among the Mags (yes there are some!) aren't too bad and I will always stick up for the region as a whole in conversations with "outsiders" - those unfortunate enough to have been born south of Scotch Corner ! However the sheer stupidity, arrogance and ignorance of some Mags is shocking - particularly as they haven't done anything to actually warrant it ! I think things took a turn for the worse from the Keegan era onwards with their flirtation with CL football - which seems to have elevated them, in some of their eyes, to the same level as Manure, the Gooners, Chelski and Liverpool. That - which resulted in a lot of bandwagon jumpers - combined with the general perception of the NE from those outside the region has given some Mags (young or with short memories) a false sense of superiority - I can recall one post banging on about THEIR airport, THEIR motorway network and THEIR Metro - ignoring the fact of course that the airport is apparently jointly owned, the metro was paid for by the taxpayers on Wearside as well and the motorways are a national responsibility ! Still there are still some good ones - it's just they are often drowned out by the idiots !
please log in to view this image I like a good farty curry as much as the next man, but there are some spices there I prefer very little of and there are one or two I don't like at all.
No: All Mags are nowt but deluded thick nobs who do nowt but cause bother, and all Sunderland fans are intelligent, upstanding pillows of the community...No comparison..
