Wouldn't swap KLD out for anyone personally. Think he's a tonic in a sport that has become far too centred around money.
Nor would I. I love him because of the commitment and optimism he's brought to us.However, there's no doubt he's in it for the money in the end.....the opportunity we provide is an open book and has been discussed on here millions of times and can be seen by anyone with half a long-term investment brain. The EPL is the target. I think he might have fallen in love with us,hope so!
I was born in Shields hospital so not far from the Tyne (might be a little over a mile) but technically I should be a sandancer. However I have always classed myself as Geordie and not Mackem. I think that comes down to living in Boldon and being brought up in a pit village as it was back then. I remember being in the Fulwell end and hearing the chants of Geordies/Mackems being sung around the ground. Your support of a team does not define who you are. But who you are may well define who you support. I am proud of my heritage and if tou ever bump into me on a day out in Sunderlad (sadly them days are few and far between now but you never know)with my Makem mates I am sure they will tell you that I am often labelled the Geordie bastard and they take the piss out of my accent as I do theirs. It is often said I was brought up on the dark side North of the Wear and in truth the banter is always in fun and good craic, and they know how passionate I am about SAFC. HWTL
Dunno, but it shouldn’t really matter. As long as the support for our great club is genuine then they can be born and bred in Timbuktu as far as I’m concerned.
Boldon is a stones through from Sunderland I never knew anyone from round that way would class themselves as a geordie unless they were originally from Newcastle to be fair!
As far as I’m concerned there isn’t a ‘proper’ definition, it’s a matter of personal choice. These names are usually given as insults by people on the outside … Cockney was someone useless, Scousers were poor Irish immigrants who existed on thin soup called scouse, etc. Mackem is probably the same. Anyone from the Borders to north of Boro can choose to call themselves Geordies … … as in my case it’s often as much to do with parentage as birth location.
Edge of Shields/Boldon myself. Always referred to by others as Geordie growing up. I could choose to support Liverpool, wouldn't make me a Scouser.
Then you don't know many from Boldon as I don't know many who class themselves as Mackems and being that I lived there for the best part of 40 years think I may have a bit more knowledge on this subject.
Quite right, I lived in boldon when I was younger and know a few people who were born there and they would say they're Geordies. That and along with a NE postcode as apposed to an SR one
Oh defo, I don’t deny that. Just find it weird people who live so close to Sunderland class themselves at Geordies! Then again people from 30 miles from Newcastle class themselves as geordies these days
For a while in the army I was referred to as Geordie. To be honest it didn’t bother me at the time. This was in the mid 1980s when the Mackem term wasn’t as widely used as it is now.
Coming from between Stanley & Consett as a kid I would have described myself as a Geordie. However since NUFC and the rest of the country hijacked the term and started to closely link it with the Town I started describing myself as Pitmatic
