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    Reports that we get “a seven-figure payment” as part of the Scott McKenna sale if he and Nottingham Forest are promoted to the top division in England by beating HUDD-ERS-FIELD* in the play-off final.

    https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/no...ure-promotion/

    * https://youtu.be/QstZMn-BSRM

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post
    Reports that we get “a seven-figure payment” as part of the Scott McKenna sale if he and Nottingham Forest are promoted to the top division in England by beating HUDD-ERS-FIELD* in the play-off final.

    https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/no...ure-promotion/

    * https://youtu.be/QstZMn-BSRM
    Wow ... for the first time in at least two decades, there's a game involvin' an English club which registers significantly above zero on my give-a-****-o-meter.

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    Grimmer Jr (of the Yard) likely to be on the bench for Wycombe Wanderers v Sunderland tomorrow in some sort of anti-merit play-off to try to achieve promotion to some losers’ division.

    I’m certain I never saw him play. Another mystery departure in the NE haar of history.

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    Scott Morrison loses the Australian general election.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post
    Grimmer Jr (of the Yard) likely to be on the bench for Wycombe Wanderers v Sunderland tomorrow in some sort of anti-merit play-off to try to achieve promotion to some losers’ division.

    I’m certain I never saw him play. Another mystery departure in the NE haar of history.
    I see that the Rokerites (what IS this ‘Black Cats pish?) beat WW 2-0, and that Grimmer jr of the Yard never got off the bench.

    Coppiz iz badstidz.

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    I see that the Rokerites (what IS this ‘Black Cats pish?) .
    Ha'way wi baith. They are Makems.

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    Haddawa and ****e. Mackem is a generic name for the populace of Sunderland and its Wearside environs, they’ve been the Rokerites since they started playing at Roker Park in 1898, and when I started reading Shoot about 1968, that’s what they were called. QED. FACT. END OF.

    A parallel….

    All weedgies are weedgies, but only the two manky stinky filthy malodorous clarty-ersed Rangers versions are fuucking incestuous throwback bigoted hun baastards, although others have tried to emulate the fuucking incestuous throwback bigoted hun baastards.

    Anyway, it was agreed a long time ago that changing a nickname, a stadium name (eg The Acme Fanny Pad Tannadice Park), or a club name (Ferranti Thistle, Meadowbank Thistle, Livingston JCB Operators) is the work of fannies and wrong ‘uns.

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    and when I started reading Shoot about 1968, that’s what they were called. QED. FACT. END OF.
    Shoot! Harumph. I won’t be too disparaging about it as I’m trying to sell my 1970-71 issues but it’s a bit like relying on the Daily Record for Aberdeen history. I’ve only heard folk outwith Sunderland talk about Rokerites (such as the In Search of the Double!: Sunderland Afc 1912/13 book produced in Hull). The Sunderland Echo https://www.sunderlandecho.com/herit...lained-1886591 witters on about them being the first to use Makem or Mackem in print in the late 1980s. I worked in Peterlee (also Mackem country) in 1976 and all Sunderland supporters referred to themselves by that term then and had for generations. I agree it also refers to the population generally rather than the football team as I was surprised to be asked on a Monday morning after two nights at the local nightclub if I had enjoyed a Mackem tart and was quite unaware of this particular patisserie.

    I agree with your analysis of nickname changing for the Black Cats. Although it was associated with Sunderland since the Napoleonic Wars and supposedly said moggy was a lucky charm in the 1937 FA Cup Final, the idea of having supporters vote on a nickname, as they did in 1997 is ****ery of the highest degree.

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    See James Wilson has scored for Port Vale in the division 4 play off final.

    I'd completely forgotten about him.

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    I’ve still forgotten about him.

    But I’ve watched the last 10 minutes and see that that useless tosser Longstaff is playing for Mansfield Town.

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