SAFC ARE BETTER THAN NUFC

Newcastle is hurting today, not so much because they lost a football match 1-0, but because they have never been able to accept that they are and always have been the second-best team in the North East of England. Second to Sunderland AFC, historically and morally and this is why…

Historically, Newcastle last won the top flight title in 1927, almost 100 years ago and have only won it four times compared to Sunderland’s six (plus we’ve won one more recently). They have not won a major trophy since they won the FA Cup in 1955. Sunderland last won the FA Cup in 1973. The League Cup is not a major trophy.

NUFC’s record attendance is 68,386, Sunderland’s is 75,118. Newcastle have never had a loyal fanbase. They have fans that turn up only when they are doing well and disappear into the ether during the bad times. In the season before John Hall bought the club in 1992, NUFC could only muster up a miserable average attendance of 16,879 and their lowest attendance that season was 8,658 against Oxford United.

If you want more recent examples, the barcodes handed out 10,000 free season tickets in 2019 to fill their ground and during the season their new owners bought the club in 2021, they failed to sellout a single home match before the takeover had been confirmed.

Newcastle last beat Sunderland in the league in 2011, since then Sunderland have beaten Newcastle seven times, including six wins in a row, and three draws.

Newcastle fans really struggle with these facts, so we thought we’d write them down, for those of them who can read and write.

Sunderland are also morally superior to Newcastle. SAFC welcome the LGBTQ community and have the highest percentage of female season ticket holders in the UK. Whereas Newcastle’s owners are the Saudi-ran PIF, the worst and most vicious human rights-abusing regime on the planet. Being homosexual in Saudi Arabia is punishable by death. The state has been known to use unfair trials and torture to find children guilty of crimes and then execute them. Meanwhile, supposedly politically correct Newcastle fans have not just turned a blind eye to this; they’ve openly supported it. Saudi based flags and official kits have become almost as prominent a symbol of their fanbase as Newcastle Brown Ale.

Despite all this NUFC fans who time and time again have smashed up their own city and punched horses in the face of failure and defeat, struggle to accept the facts.

Happy Xmas Tyneside,

FTM