Grey Street, Newcastle voted the finest in Britain , don't you know. The best-selling imported beer in America. The fact they've even heard of Newcastle in America is another difference between the two cities.
Greggs the bakers first opened in Gosforth, According to statistics reported in , In Newcastle, it's a trim But last year, Sunderland City Council confirmed they were scrapping the idea in favour of a "simplified cable-stayed design. Despite the anomaly of your recent derby match run, the all-time Premier League table doesn't lie.
You're battling the drop while we're pushing for Europe. Football is a religion in the north, giving birth to some of the most raucous, passionate fanbases in the whole of the country. Equally passionate clubs facing off against each other always gives for an enthralling match, and the Tyne-Wear derby is a perfect example of that.
Newcastle United and Sunderland are separated by just 12 miles, and to say that they despise each other is an understatement. Currently two leagues apart, their meeting is even more of an occasion than before, last battling it out in March when Sunderland were still in the Premier League.
The Tyne-Wear derby is certainly one of the best of its kind in England - and one of the most unique. While most derbies are simply based on geographical terms, this rivalry precedes even the beautiful game.
Today, both cities are left-wing Labour strongholds, but the situation was completely different years ago. Understanding this derby requires some knowledge of English history, specifically the English Civil War.
On opposing sides of a gruesome nine-year war, a rivalry was born. The Oxford English Dictionary records its first use in print to the s. Few would be able to stomach this today. The region is now fundamentally divided into opposing tribal identities. But for this to have any success, Mackems and Geordies may have to recognise what they have in common first.
This was the experience of Newcastle and Sunderland in the first half of the twentieth century. In the following decades, this way of life began to unravel.
The experience of decline and unemployment traumatised the region and forced it to be reborn. The post-industrial age, with its emphasis on education, services, culture and tourism, has transformed the way the North East sees itself. Call centres have replaced the collieries; shopping malls have succeeded the shipyards.
Long gone are the days when a self-evident masculinity arose from the act of working with your hands. Masculinity is now proven on the streets, on the terraces, in the bars, in the gym. Recent developments have brought fresh challenges to the established order. The old assumptions about a Labour-voting region are now up for grabs. Newcastle looks on with schadenfreude , forgetting that it too is heavily divided. It is worth reiterating, however, that although change has pushed the two cities apart — defining one against the other — they remain remarkably similar places, with a shared history and strong sense of themselves.
Realising that they both have much more in common than they care to admit will be advantageous within the crucial years that lie ahead. Trains filled with passengers from Blyth, Sunderland and beyond poured into mid-nineteenth century Newcastle to watch the famous Tyneside rowers compete with their Thames rivals, events that attracted much gambling and as they were often organised by local publicans prodigious consumption of alcohol.
His ears appear to be better than mine. Labour, here, failed to convince its North East base of the merits of coming together under a devolved assembly. That the Tyne and Wear Metro is predominately focused on Tyneside and only reached Sunderland and beyond in also adds to this sense of indignation. Will Nissan stay once Britain leaves? David Kemp told me via email:. Incidentally he had no time for them.
When I was wee he told me that after the Derby game at St. It was independent of football and was a means of identifying anyone from Sunderland and surrounding area.. Like Like.
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