Whilst I bear in mind, the T shirt of Lee Clark and the miss of Chopra, to go on about which team a professional football supported as a kid or even which teams results he might look for now, is IMHO saying more about a fans hatred of another rival team than his love of his own team. Let's see if he comes if he scores against N'cle before displaying prejudices and our own personality flaws.
Whilst I bear in mind, the T shirt of Lee Clark and the miss of Chopra, to go on about which team a professional football supported as a kid or even which teams results he might look for now, is IMHO saying more about a fans hatred of another rival team than his love of his own team. Let's see if he comes if he scores against N'cle before displaying prejudices and our own personality flaws.
Well actually, to be pedantic, it says more about how the player himself feels about our club than anything. After all, he was the one who has put on record that we are the last club on earth he would support and our nearest local rivals are his first love, which tbf is about as inflammatory as you can be in the world of local or national football. However, the fact he still wants to come here knowing he wont be universally popular at all, shows he has some balls about him tbf. He is the one with a massive problem and how he overcomes that is simple. Play for the team, score goals and above everything, have a ****ing blinder against the mags in a few weeks time. Its not hard.
I think you've got the wrong end of the stick bud. It's not his affection for Newcastle I have a problem with. It's the anti Sunderland comment that went along with it that makes me dubious about him
Cest who are the last club on earth you would support if SAFC were no more? I am certain it would be them up the road and, personally, I don't see it as inflammatory at all. Just a young lad giving his fans vies
Not really meant to be a negative mate...Just saying that he will have my full backing from the word go if he signs, but if he were to follow in Lee Clarke's footsteps and **** on us big time, then he would lose that backing.
Absolutely I would say them up the road kidda and in doing so, I would fully expect to be lynched by their fans if I then 2 years later agreed to go and play for them? Honesty is fine. Hypocrisy a little harder to swallow.
We wont see him here before next week. Swansea are not going to sell him to us the week before we play them. So talk about coming up here today will be well off the mark.
Couldn't care less me. I work for my boss, I don't love him or the work I do and at time have slagged it off to my friends. It's a job.... Footballing is a job. I'm not going to ask Graham to love Sunderland and never will I expect him to. However, I will expect him to be a professional and do his job if he signs.
I dare bet that if you went to print in a national publication and slagged your company off, adding that your companies biggest local rivals were actually better and you liked them more, your boss would be less than happy with you as would your colleagues? What you say to friends and family or in the pub isnt harming your firm but go national with it and you'd be in big trouble. Look at the cases of people on facebook that have slagged their company or individuals off and suffered the consequences of that action.
Even then. You would not sell a player who has been training with you until a couple of days before you play the other club even if you have another player coming in.
Cest, just pointing out its only a job. Nothing more nothing less. I have slagged off my company and said our competitors are better in publication. Only difference is, I don't have thousands of fans watching my every move. Jokes aside, each to their own. Only a game.
