Ellis shows his colours

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Tenner says he doesnt know what it means xD

 

i reckon he knows more about the club than any of us marra

 

Financially yes, history and such?

 

I would think so, he'll know the ins and outs of everything

 

He'll say he thought it meant "Follow The Mackems", but we know the truth Ellis!!

 

He borrowed it from Joe Kinnear

 

I'm sure he knows exactly what it means. He seems to hate the mags, didnt he tell Pardew to **** off before the derby?

 

think your right mate

 

Nice one Ellis, a Yank with a sense of humour? a rare commodity but very welcome.

 

awesome. he's just gone further up the 'respect' scale. top bloke.

 

im proud to call ellis our chairman. the guys a legend.

 

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/...badge-to-meet-president-of-tanzania-1-5777614

Story is up!

THE owner of SAFC met a world leader while wearing a FTM pin badge.

Ellis Short was spotted wearing the red and white badge bearing the fans’ motto – which is commonly used to mean F*** the Mags – on his suit lapel as he welcomed the President of Tanzania, His Excellency Dk Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, to Wearside.

The African delegation was given a tour of SAFC’s facilities by Mr Short on Sunday as the club announced plans to lend its expertise to an academy which is to be built in the East African nation.

The billionaire chairman also wore the same badge at the Stadium of Light before the Everton match in April to present medals to soldiers from Sunderland Gunners who had just returned from a tour of Afghanistan.

The distinctive scarf-shaped badge is believed to be one of a handful of pin badges the Texan bought in person from the A Love Supreme (ALS) fanzine shop in Sheepfolds Industrial Estate.


Though the motto is often censored due to it being an acronym for foul language, Martyn McFadden, editor of ALS, says it shows Ellis’s passion for the club and its fans.

“It’s meant in a jovial way,” he said. “Most clubs have a jibe aimed at the rivals and Newcastle have SMB (meaning Sad Mackem B******s) which they use against us.

“It isn’t meant to be taken literally and people who wear it don’t mean they want to fight Newcastle. It’s used as a way of saying Newcastle’s irrelevant.

“I think it’s cool that Ellis Short is embracing Sunderland pop culture.”

He added: “I think most people in the city know what it means, but whenever children come into the shop and ask, we say it means Follow the Mackems.”

Ellis visited the shop in March and chose about half a dozen badges which he said he wanted to wear for business meetings.

Chris Thompson from ALS, who served Ellis, said: “He got out his wallet to pay for them, but I wasn’t prepared to accept the money. ‘You’ve just spent over £20 million on Steven Fletcher and Adam Johnson,’ I told him. I think we could spare him a few badges.”

Across the Tyne, Steve Wraith, editor of NUFC fanzine No 9, also thinks it’s a tongue-in-cheek choice of accessory.

“I think it would be wrong for Newcastle fans to criticise Sunderland over it,” he explained. “We’ve got a clown in charge who’s done much worse things than that.

“Maybe he’s done it for the banter. If you look into it, FTM can mean the expletive or it can mean Follow the Mackems, and it may be that he’s been misled into thinking it means something else.

“Or maybe it’s a smart PR move to endear himself to the fans.”

Steve added: “I think it needs to be taken tongue-in-cheek. There’s enough bad spirit between the teams drummed up while the football season is in full flow.”

Sunderland AFC declined to comment.

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He did

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/391504/Grudge-match-Ellis-Short-blasts-Alan-Pardew

 

Ellis will know exactly what it means!

 

we should be thankfull to have him as chairman. he hates the mags, he has ploughed **** loads of cash into us, he is trying to promote the club worldwide, he drinks with fans and semms an all round good bloke. you only have to look at someone like whealen at wigan to see how bad things could be. that clown loves any excuse to be on ssn and has an opinion on everything

 

The lack of class is absolutely disgusting, should be incredibly ashamed the mag kernt.....Or so you lot would say if it was Mike Ashley.

 

Not only did he plough money into the club, He converted them to shares so there's not standing debt. Top bloke, smart bloke and on the way he's restructuring the club, he's starting to really grasp footy, which is fantastic for a non football playing yank. What a geezer!

 

A nice smart suit with a descreet pin badge?

Fat mike would have worn a lonsdale tracky with his kite out and smb tattooed on it!

 

Well lets test your theory

Which of these pictures shows a lack of class?

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HA ha ha ha, silly boy, you better get back the meltdown board, I've heard Ashley as about to announce Dr Bob as club doctor.

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