By plakka mag I mean the fools from Horden, Peterlee, Easington, Blackhall and surrounding villages from nowhere near Newcastle and support Newcastle and pretend to be geordies much like Rod Stewart has spent all his life pretending he is Scottish. They even might go to games and sing 'geordies' and songs of hatred directed towards themselves. They just can't see the irony. So how many of these complete idiots do ya know?
Sadly loads, never used to happen pre Keegan, most of their dads won't be real football supporters and neither are their kids. I know loads of plastic mags who have never been to a game. Sad really.
I think it explains Newcastle's higher crowds Tony. The emergence of sky coincided with newcastle's glory oh so nearly years so they attracted a lot of glory hunting supporters from traditional sunderland supporting villages.
I work in Darlo and there are 5 in my immediate vicinity who support Newcastle - 1 of which does actually come from there. This involves spouting endlessly about how good their team are and winding me up when things aren't going so well for us. Under no circumstances does it involve actually making the trip to the SDA and watching a game.
Loads. At school it was genuinely only the chav scum who supported Newcastle after Keegan arrived of course. They dont go to matches never have never will but try and use mackem as a slur despite the fact their birth certificates say born in Sunderland. I know real Newcastle fans too and I don't have any problem sharing a bit of banter with a genuine fan. It was the rancid scum that made me loathe Newcastle growing up. Now i work with genuine supporters im mellowing with age.
The strangest thing happened to me a few months ago when I was called a mackem bastard by a bloke from Ryhope. WTFCK He just couldn't see the lunacy of his statement either.
Most of the Mags I know are proper fans from Mag families, but there are some absolute ****ing idiots as well. One lad I used to work with, hadn't been to SDA since 'Jim Smith left', wet on like the worlds biggest fan with all his Toon tat on his desk, when they got relegated he said ' I'd rather be an also ran in the championship than an also ran in the Premier League' What a ****ing imbecile, I wouldn't care who he supported, with that patter, he'd be a ****ing Clem anyway.
So you're an idiot if you support a team and aren't from the actual City? I'm from about 20 miles south of Newcastle, I'm still a regular at the home matches though. Does that make me a "plastic" fan? Supported them since I was five years old, my dad, a leeds fan but he lost interest in football before I was born so never forced his views on me, only got back into footy when I did. In county durham, there is pretty much a straight divide, half support sunderland, half support newcastle. My best friend in primary school supporting newcastle meant that I took them up as my team and have supported them ever since. I find your post extremely derogatory and offensive to be plainly honest.
Similar to yourself mate I was born in Durham, my rents are both from Sunderland tho as all my family are hence my affiliation with the club. Although to the letter of the law im not a mackem I go to games, support my club, buy the shirts, defend my club when lambasted from my mates (90% of which are geordies) and consider myself no less of a sunderland fan than one actually hailing from Sunderland.
Never lived in Sunderland, never lived in the NE. Born in Cumbria, lived in SE and now live in France Am I a plastic fan? My Dad and my family from his side all come from the NE, plenty of them are season card holders. I cant and havent made it to many games, but would love to. This "you dont come from sunderland, so cant support the team" attitude stinks. What matters is once a fan, always fan through thick and thin, not where you come from and where you have lived.
With Chiek and Yogi on this one. I'm from Whitley Bay, though born in North Shields, but although i used to go to the match regularly when i lived near Newcastle i left 10 years ago and now live in Liverpool. I can't afford the time or money to travel up for all the matches so just go to the odd away game in the north-west (there are quite a few but i only make a couple a season). I don't consider myself any less of a fan though would love it if i could go to all the home matches, just not practical. I think what you really dislike is people who make no effort to support "their team" yet go out of their way to rub your nose in it when "their team" do well or beat your team. We all hate those people to be honest, but its got nothing to do with where their from or who their team is.
Aye think this was probz the sentiment mate, every team has them and no matter which team they support they dont get any less annoying!
I worked with a lad from Ashington and one from Cramlington who supported SAFC. I now live in Annfield Plain but where I was brought up used to be solid Sunderland and so much so that back in the 60's when we were going for promotion the conducters on the buses going to Sunderland wore red and white. The buse used to start in South Shields and run along the coast
I spent my childhood moving around like a gypsy. But was a huge Shearer fan as a child and once I started playing football with friends, the "Big move" of Alan Shearer to Newcastle happened and considering I never had a club to support despite being 10 years old I had a Toon shirt bought for me donning our new number 9. Since then I have experienced lows and highs as a Toon fan and rented a flat up there just to watch games. When that cost me every penny I owned I moved back to my Mom's gained work and rented a house and settled here.
Born in Scotland into a family that hates football! I really was up **** creek without a paddle. As I got older, I moved to France (must have been 6) and my best friend at the time was a Geordie. He influenced me and got me into the game and thus got me supporting Newcastle (before they became good!). I would not say I am a plastic, I just did not know better and caught the bug.
I used to work with two guys from Cleadon ( the posh end of Southwick ) who were born in Sunderland and because their parents had money they were educated at private schools in Sunderland ( you know who you are ) but because it appeared to be fashionable they jumped on the Keegan bandwagon and are to this day insufferable mags.
