It ebbs and flows @MaccaYesterdays media spaff over Sunderland "one of the biggest clubs in England" coupled with my complete apathy towards them made me wonder what other clubs fit this bill. Clubs you don't particularly like or hate but the media loves and you don't see the fuss. Mine is between Everton and Chelsea. Top of my head can only name 1 Chelsea player in Cole Palmer
The media have always had a huge thing for North East teams generally, hyping them beyond what you'd expect considering their achievements down the years.Yesterdays media spaff over Sunderland "one of the biggest clubs in England" coupled with my complete apathy towards them made me wonder what other clubs fit this bill.
It ebbs and flows @Macca
Next season in our league will be Wrexham and Blues.
I've no particular beef with either, but my god, they're gonna be in the news.
Frank Lampard’s Coventry City will enjoy disproportionate amounts of media coverage for as long as he’s here.
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It will but thats more about him than the club
The media have always had a huge thing for North East teams generally, hyping them beyond what you'd expect considering their achievements down the years.
At least part of it is down to the undeniably large support that clubs from the region garner. I don't think people there are particularly any more into football than anywhere else, but it's quite an isolated region with a strong sense of identity (and when I lived there - a good while ago now - quite insular in its outlook), so people tend to support their local clubs; you don't see Man United or Arsenal tops in Newcastle or Sunderland. Newcastle and Sunderland (and to a lesser extend Middlesbrough) are all big, but big in their own back yard.
It does stick in the craw somewhat, especially as football in the Midlands tends to be derided, despite, in my lifetime, Midlands clubs being generally more successful than those from the NE.
One thing the hype and large local support has done, is make NE supporters unreasonable in their expectations. It took blood money for Newcastle to win something, and Sunderland have always bounced around the top three divisions. They might enjoy supporting their clubs more if they paid less attention to the media hype.
I agree, FL has been lauded by the media for what he has done this season (and rightly so) but they're same feat by Robins 2 seasons ago wasn't given half as much attention. Middlesbrough got all the plaudits for coming from low down to 4th, even though our achievement was better as we started below them and beat them numerous times. However, that was ignored (even during our head to head games) and they received the plaudits. FL has done something similar to what Robins did 2 years ago and gets wanked off.Frank Lampard’s Coventry City will enjoy disproportionate amounts of media coverage for as long as he’s here.
If we get Clinton Morrison we are lucky.Every time we’re on Sky we always seem to be the ‘other’ team. They’ll usually have 1 or 2 ex players from the opposition, but rarely anyone from us.
Sunderland and West Brom always seem to be Sky favourites, and we’re just there to make up the numbers
This just isn’t true. Sky seem to love us atm.Every time we’re on Sky we always seem to be the ‘other’ team. They’ll usually have 1 or 2 ex players from the opposition, but rarely anyone from us.
Unless we play a team that a player has played for both clubs (recently comes to mind George Boateng when we played Boro)Every time we’re on Sky we always seem to be the ‘other’ team. They’ll usually have 1 or 2 ex players from the opposition, but rarely anyone from us.
Sunderland and West Brom always seem to be Sky favourites, and we’re just there to make up the numbers
They show us a lot. Don’t really get the feeling they love us though.This just isn’t true. Sky seem to love us atm.
Wrexham don't get that much coverage outside of the US owned media, do they?Oh god I forgot about Wrexham
I think that's mostly because for whatever reason we don't have that many ex players on the pundit circuitEvery time we’re on Sky we always seem to be the ‘other’ team. They’ll usually have 1 or 2 ex players from the opposition, but rarely anyone from us.
Sunderland and West Brom always seem to be Sky favourites, and we’re just there to make up the numbers
It’s whoever gets them the most clicks
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