Newcastle fans

I don’t get this ‘one club City’ crap when talking about Newcastle.

City are the only team in the City of Manchester but most City fans do not live in Manchester. On here you would think that more came from Stockport!

Traditionally most Newcastle fans lived in Newcastle and Northumberland. More in Durham County including Gateshead, Durham City, South Shields, etc, predominantly supported Sunderland.

That has all changed with many commuters moving out of Newcastle to places like Chester-le-Street transforming traditional areas of Sunderland support to Newcastle.

The point is that both Newcastle and Sunderland have support across the Tyne Wear, Durham County and Northumbria area. Very similar to City and United across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, and beyond.
 
JGL07 said:
I don’t get this ‘one club City’ crap when talking about Newcastle.

City are the only team in the City of Manchester but most City fans do not live in Manchester. On here you would think that more came from Stockport!

Traditionally most Newcastle fans lived in Newcastle and Northumberland. More in Durham County including Gateshead, Durham City, South Shields, etc, predominantly supported Sunderland.

That has all changed with many commuters moving out of Newcastle to places like Chester-le-Street transforming traditional areas of Sunderland support to Newcastle.

The point is that both Newcastle and Sunderland have support across the Tyne Wear, Durham County and Northumbria area. Very similar to City and United across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, and beyond.
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There are a lot more football clubs around Manchester than there are around Newcastle.
 
Tolmie scores said:
the media are lazy as fk..keep going on about amazing travelling support sell out their aways etc. Loads of prem clubs do it's not unusual. Virtually impossible to get a City txt away. Also no media acknowledgement for our huge away support all over Europe...Athens..friendly...thousands of blues there, just glossed over as it doesn't suit the media narrative. I like calling them out as it discredits as football journalists, not knowing or researching the facts - makes for a very poor journalist in my eyes. We should take this line as it should really hurt some of these lazy journo's ..questioning their ability to research and understand facts.
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The reason why I bumped this thread on Saturday evening (last previous post was in 2018) was because Final Score said that there was a "massive" travelling army of passionate Newcastle fans at The Etihad.
And my initial bumped post stated that they brought 3,000 fans ,just like any other well supported team. And that they weren't particularly loud or passionate,they behaved just like most other travelling fans.
It's the media who continue to peddle this myth about "The Toon Army" ,and that's what really narks me off.
 
JGL07 said:
I don’t get this ‘one club City’ crap when talking about Newcastle.

City are the only team in the City of Manchester but most City fans do not live in Manchester. On here you would think that more came from Stockport!

Traditionally most Newcastle fans lived in Newcastle and Northumberland. More in Durham County including Gateshead, Durham City, South Shields, etc, predominantly supported Sunderland.

That has all changed with many commuters moving out of Newcastle to places like Chester-le-Street transforming traditional areas of Sunderland support to Newcastle.

The point is that both Newcastle and Sunderland have support across the Tyne Wear, Durham County and Northumbria area. Very similar to City and United across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, and beyond.
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Spent many a good pre-match in The Wicket Gate in Chester Le Street.
 
r.soleofsalford said:
Spent many a good pre-match in The Wicket Gate in Chester Le Street.
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My pal who was one of the many Newcastle fans who migrated to Chester-Le-Street. I suspect that the reason he moved was that the Durham had just gained first class county cricket status. I did go there once for a test match against Australia.
 
They had one shot on target and a poor one at that.
Still they got applauded off by their fans.
A performance if Ashley was still in charge They would have got booed off.
The new owners better hope they can still challenge for Champions League or the honeymoon period will be over.
 
JGL07 said:
I don’t get this ‘one club City’ crap when talking about Newcastle.

City are the only team in the City of Manchester but most City fans do not live in Manchester. On here you would think that more came from Stockport!

Traditionally most Newcastle fans lived in Newcastle and Northumberland. More in Durham County including Gateshead, Durham City, South Shields, etc, predominantly supported Sunderland.

That has all changed with many commuters moving out of Newcastle to places like Chester-le-Street transforming traditional areas of Sunderland support to Newcastle.

The point is that both Newcastle and Sunderland have support across the Tyne Wear, Durham County and Northumbria area. Very similar to City and United across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, and beyond.
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Appreciate that people in every conurbation, have moved out of traditional inner-city areas to commuter towns/villages, like Chester-le-Street.
But, if you came out of the train station in either Newcastle or Sunderland, the vast majority of the football supporters would be from that City.
Manchester (probably similar to Liverpool) has a split support if you live around Piccadilly or Victoria stations.
Newcastle has a huge advantage over Sunderland, because Northumbria is north of St. James' Park, with very few Mackem fans.
Gateshead (a separate local Authority, like Stockport, Bury etc.) is also predominantly NUFC - despite them voting Gateshead FC out of the Football League !
Unfortunately, for Sunderland, the Kevin Keegan/Sir John Hall era with their success, saw a lot of the Durham towns & pit village youngsters change their allegiance to the Magpies.
Newcastle are now like City - cannot see either team returning to an under-achieving mid-table team ?
 
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