A Manchester United fan or just a Mackem on the wind up? | OneFootball

I wrote an article before the Man U game, stating how Newcastle United fans need a much bigger stadium.

A stadium that would allow so many more of us to get in, on a regular basis.

A previous article by Dean Wilkins had explained how many people outside the region aren’t aware of just how large the population of Tyneside and the region overall is, far far bigger than the quoted 300,000 figure which is the population within the administrative boundaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne has a population that justified a stadium of decent proportion to satisfy demand.

This doesn’t even include the huge numbers of Geordies (and their descendants) who live outside the region (rest of the UK and overseas), such as myself, with work the usual factor that sees Newcastle United fans having left to live elsewhere.

Next weekend I have managed to get a ticket for the Ipswich game.

This season I have not been able to get anywhere near the number of tickets that I did the previous season. The ballot appears to have got that much harder, are the numbers searching for tickets increasingly having an effect?  Or are there just less tickets out there?

After the article went up on The Mag, arguing for a much bigger stadium, in the comments section came a reply from a Manchester United fan, or maybe not. Who knows.

His first comment was, “Wow proper delusional”, then alleged Manchester United fan Steve added; “Just think, the mighty Leicester City have won more than you in 9 years than you have in 55. Other huge clubs with a League cup win in last 50 years include the mighty Norwich and Birmingham City. No big club celebrates a p.xy League Cup with a parade and act like they have just won the treble. I will look forward to seeing you on Sunday when I will be sat in Level 7 of your Leazes end (ED: See image above from that Man U match. Was ‘Steve’ one of the few Man U fans who was even still there towards the end of the match?) watching Manchester United, a truly massive global historical football club.”

And there you have it. Steve I suspect is just a Mackem on the wind up, or maybe he is really a Man U supporter/consumer.

Either way, as I can state categorically from experience working with colleagues in London who “support” Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea etc, this is the smug attitude that prevails, with no concept of how it feels to be a supporter of a team that had not won a domestic trophy for seventy years.

Which brings us back to the stadium issue.

I suspect that next season my chances of getting tickets for home games will get even slimmer, though I will endeavour and myself and the too smart for his own good lad will get to some games home and away next season.

In the meantime, the delusional me and my delusional lad will be trying to get to as many games as possible for the rest of this season. Ipswich next weekend then down to Brighton in their end the following week.