Aw c’mon, it’s the Shearer Derby
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8,000 away fans there. Bout a 300 mile round trip on a cold Tuesday evening against a lower league club.
Got to hand it to the Geordies. They do travel .
Aw c’mon, it’s the Shearer Derby
Newcastle , SunderlandOriginally Posted by William Treseder
Football cities
Absolutely obsessed with their club
And it's all from up there, not like the plastic scousers and mancs from Surrey
I suspect if Newcastle had won the vast amount of trophies that Manchester United and Liverpool have done, they'd have the exact same sort of fanbase.
dull game
They would have an even bigger fanbase than they already have, obviously
They are starved of success and still take thousands away
True, but United have had average attendances over 50k and Liverpool over 40k as far back as the 1940s... I'm not sure the 'glory hunter' trend was really a thing then. So with or without glory hunters they'd have a huge following. So your initial point is a bit irrelevant.
The fact that Newcastle and Sunderland have had scant success compared to Liverpool and Man U makes their attendances more impressive, wouldn’t you say ?
Or perhaps relfects on others things like the lack of other things to do, the need to do at least 1 fun thing and the rivalry that exists between the cities way beyond football that has been handed down trough generations and football giving it a vent.
That's what I would say
They had SOME attendances over 50 and 40 k
But so did Newcastle
They are an enormous football club given their relative lack of success and their geographical position
Is this the enormous football club that twice lost around 20% of its crowd after relegation to Division 2 in the 80s/90s? In fact, from 1976 to 1981 crowds halved as Newcastle went from 5th in the top division to bottom half in Div 2.
However their crowds since the early 90s have been phenomenal.
Keegan (twice) certainly had a hand in their crowd revival. Their crowds certainly dipped in the Keeganless years between his time as a player, then manager. 16,000 average in 90/91.
Well as you know crowds before italia 90 were poor
Our crowds in the late eighties and some of the 1990s were sometimes around 2500
Newcastle even with crowds of 18000 absolutely dwarfed us
Their first Premier League season their average was 33,000 and they sold out once. We were floundering then and can hardly be compared.
The Premier league took several years to get going
Newcastle are a massive club by anyone's standards
I’ve a soft spot for Sunderland.
“The Mags” have always seemed to be very entitled to me.
Oh Jesus. This Again?
Like Groundhog Day.
3 people I grew up with supported Newcastle from childhood, another lad I was in school with has supported Sunderland since he was a nipper, there's a couple of Wolves fans known in the area. Not very glory hunting mind.
It never stops.
Self appointed bastion of football fandom criticising others for not supporting their local club.
His local football league club would be the Jacks mind.
Apologies Sludgey.
Idiot that I am, I clicked on this thread expecting to find out who won
Well if they are taffies then that's odd and they deserve stick , not praise
That's stretching it beyond reasonable geographical boundaries
I mean Liverpool and Manchester are 200 miles from South Wales , its fantasy armchair football
I thought the game was a bit boring but match of the day were having kittensIdiot that I am, I clicked on this thread expecting to find out who won
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