Are most neutrals supporting Sunderland?

[FMBlade1]

I would imagine that they are for the sake of variety in the PL and desire to see the Tyne-Wear derby back.

We shouldn't particularly care, though for those watching on TV the commentary will bound to be quite annoying!

 

[fifty shades of blade]

I would imagine that they are for the sake of variety in the PL and desire to see the Tyne-Wear derby back.

We shouldn't particularly care, though the commentary will be annoying!

Who cares what that rancid right wing fck thinks? She's a horrific excuse of a woman.

 

[Sheffsteel]

I would imagine that they are for the sake of variety in the PL and desire to see the Tyne-Wear derby back.

We shouldn't particularly care, though for those watching on TV the commentary will bound to be quite annoying!

If I wasn’t a Blade I’d also be wanting Sunderland to win for so many reasons.

1: I like to see new teams reach the PL for the novelty factor, it’s much more interesting for the league. Sunderland haven’t been in the top flight for about 8 years.
2: I don’t like to see teams that failed, immediately return, think it’s bad for the league if the same teams are promoted, then relegated, then promoted again.
3: This is probably one of the main reason, let’s be honest Sheff united stunk out the league last season. It wasn’t that we lost…it was that we were no where near competing. It’s a joke when you think we conceded 5 or more goals for about 4 or 5 home matches running. Our matches were over as contests at half time and again this is bad for the PL, when a team is incredibly poor breaking all the worse kind of records.
4: Sunderland are a big club, one of the biggest in England and naturally if you want to raise the prestige of the English top flight then you want the biggest clubs with the more passionate fans and bigger stadiums in it.
5: The return of the Newcastle v Sunderland derby, which will create interest on Sky.
6: Their fans have suffered for a while down in league 1, so I have sympathy for their fans…at least they’re genuine and not glory hunters.

So the reality is that 95% of the nation will prefer Sunderland to win
….but it’s nothing personal against Sheff Utd….they’d be exactly same if Sunderland were playing Burnley in the final.

 

[Pedro Verde]

1 - Who the fuck is she
2 - Why would you be bothered what she has to say
3 - Why post this shit

 

[Jon Bon II]

 

[ThatJa]

Well, you'd think Newcastle want us to win, just as Wednesday want Sunderland to win.

Outside of that I reckon it would be an even split. Maybe 55-45 in Sunderlands favour because we've been there 3 times in recent history and Sunderland have been away for a while, but don't think the swing will be that big.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Well, you'd think Newcastle want us to win, just as Wednesday want Sunderland to win.

Outside of that I reckon it would be an even split. Maybe 55-45 in Sunderlands favour because we've been there 3 times in recent history and Sunderland have been away for a while, but don't think the swing will be that big.

I thought the same regards Newcastle but on FB and YouTube
…..the vast majority of comments I’ve seen from Newcastle fans say they want Sunderland to win so they can have 6 points in the Tyne Wear derby.

 

[Zero dark thirty]

Play offs are great when you not in them to watch...but when you are in them it's fucking nightmare and hoping you're nerves holding out.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Nobody loves us and we care......

 

[Weasel]

I actually like it when we are playing against opposition who are overwhelmingly supported by the rest of the football fraternity. Makes it all the more sweeter if we stick it up em and piss on their hopes. Bursting their collective hopes and then sit back and watch the hatred spew from their little angelic mouths.

Unlike the Pigs who seemingly fall over themselves to want to be liked (desperately trying to get approval from fans of other much bigger clubs to offset their insecurities about themselves), I hate United being overly liked by opposition supporters. It means we are dangerous as a football club and regularly piss off others. Hopefully another example coming up next weekend.

To the original question, of course most other fans will want Sunderland. Young team, overachieving, manager generally not actively disliked like Wilder, narrative bring a huge club been away from the PL far too long.... I will piss myself laughing if we nail these at Wembley and destroy the medias collective circle jerk over them.

P.s who the feck is Emily H? I've probably dropped more intelligence down the pan with my morning bowel movement.

 

[nopigfansintown]

Play offs are great when you not in them to watch...but when you are in them it's fucking nightmare and hoping you're nerves holding out.

I prepare myself now. Time has taught me that it's wise

If we lose it won't really impact me as 1) I expect it and 2) I've been preparing myself for that ever since we lost to Oxford. If we win it will be an incredible shock - like a 200/1 coming in on the national. It won't be the result of a coin flip landing our way in my mind. The Hull and Man City semis didn't effect me negatively at all.

I'll have a great day regardless. It's strange as up to the Huddersfield Play off game and in the derbies (not the fake ones, the Sheff derby) I still get very nervous.

 

[Gimli]

I would imagine that they are for the sake of variety in the PL and desire to see the Tyne-Wear derby back.

We shouldn't particularly care, though for those watching on TV the commentary will bound to be quite annoying!

Another thing for Hewetson to be wrong about

 

[Carlton Blade]

I hope they are. Makes winning all the sweeter

 

[jono_t2000]

I'd imagine most neutrals would want Sunderland promoted yes, just for the simple fact of having a new team in the Prem that hasn't been in there for a while.

 

[Selly]

3: This is probably one of the main reason, let’s be honest Sheff united stunk out the league last season. It wasn’t that we lost…it was that we were no where near competing. It’s a joke when you think we conceded 5 or more goals for about 4 or 5 home matches running. Our matches were over as contests at half time and again this is bad for the PL, when a team is incredibly poor breaking all the worse kind of records.

This is it. And of course three seasons prior we did exactly the same.

We've barely scraped 40 point in our last 2 seasons combined. Of course neutrals don't want us anywhere near the top flight.

 

[mattbianco1]

If I wasn’t a Blade I’d also be wanting Sunderland to win for so many reasons.

1: I like to see new teams reach the PL for the novelty factor, it’s much more interesting for the league

If we weren't able to win the play offs, I wanted Bristol City to do it for that reason.

They're out now, so it's over to us

 

[Everblade]

 

[Chimpan-A]

I suspect most will want Sunderland. We aren’t that popular, based on Roy’s View Froms, and Wilder seems to gain us extra hatred.

But who wants other fans to like us? It’s all a bit condescending and hypocritical, because those same fans will turn up at Sunderland for a league game, call their town a shithole, call them wankers and start trying to fight with them. And the premier league team fans who say it will be good to have them back have either forgotten they hung around like a bad smell for season upon season before putting everyone out of their misery AND mocked them when they eventually did.

Needy Wednesday fans crave validation as a proxy for top flight football, and will take other teams dislike of us to mean they really like them. As someone else said, who everyone watching on TV wants to win will count for nothing in that stadium.

 

[Flumps]

More than likely. There wasn't a dry pair of trousers in the pundits box when Sunderland put the last second winner in, fawning over them having only "1 more game till they've done it"

People have seen us in the PL and they've seen us be a fairly pointless side. Which is what Sunderland will be but it's new and Sunderland seem to be fairly well liked across the board. We're just another team that no one's particularly here or there about but when has that not ever been the case

 

[LondonBlade89]

“wOuLd LoVe To SeE a DiFfErEnT cLuB iN tHe PrEm”

Aye, and I’d love to see whatever club you support get relegated.

 

[Champagneblade]

I actually like it when we are playing against opposition who are overwhelmingly supported by the rest of the football fraternity. Makes it all the more sweeter if we stick it up em and piss on their hopes. Bursting their collective hopes and then sit back and watch the hatred spew from their little angelic mouths.

Unlike the Pigs who seemingly fall over themselves to want to be liked (desperately trying to get approval from fans of other much bigger clubs to offset their insecurities about themselves), I hate United being overly liked by opposition supporters. It means we are dangerous as a football club and regularly piss off others. Hopefully another example coming up next weekend.

To the original question, of course most other fans will want Sunderland. Young team, overachieving, manager generally not actively disliked like Wilder, narrative bring a huge club been away from the PL far too long.... I will piss myself laughing if we nail these at Wembley and destroy the medias collective circle jerk over them.

P.s who the feck is Emily H? I've probably dropped more intelligence down the pan with my morning bowel movement.

Considering she’s a Villa fan and if it wasn’t for Ghost goal, they’d have been exactly what she describes, she should pipe the fuck down. She should be worshiping the ground we walk on. If we’d made a massive issue of it and pushed for a replay like at times they have done in the Bundesliga they’d have been back down where they came from.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Yes, neutrals will want Sunderland to win and rightly so. Very strongly. Why would anyone want to see another season of us in the PL? We've been a stain on it 2 seasons in a row

 

[Geordie Blade]

The reality is that most people won’t even have any interest in it.

 

[Rodley]

I would imagine that they are for the sake of variety in the PL and desire to see the Tyne-Wear derby back.

We shouldn't particularly care, though for those watching on TV the commentary will bound to be quite annoying!

Hopefully they do. I love it when everyone hates us.

 

[AWetFlannel]

1: I like to see new teams reach the PL for the novelty factor, it’s much more interesting for the league. Sunderland haven’t been in the top flight for about 8 years.
2: I don’t like to see teams that failed, immediately return, think it’s bad for the league if the same teams are promoted, then relegated, then promoted again.
3: This is probably one of the main reason, let’s be honest Sheff united stunk out the league last season. It wasn’t that we lost…it was that we were no where near competing. It’s a joke when you think we conceded 5 or more goals for about 4 or 5 home matches running. Our matches were over as contests at half time and again this is bad for the PL, when a team is incredibly poor breaking all the worse kind of records.
4: Sunderland are a big club, one of the biggest in England and naturally if you want to raise the prestige of the English top flight then you want the biggest clubs with the more passionate fans and bigger stadiums in it.

And I want us to win all the more for the exact opposite of these reasons. I want the PL to be seen for what it is; a boring closed shop that is full of yo-yo teams that don't want to be there. We aren't excited to take part in the shit show, we aren't grateful to see Salah stick four past us.

The more novelty they get, the less likely they are to change anything. Let's make it back up, spend fuck all and get 12 points. Fuck em.

 

[Upton_Blade]

Another thing for Hewetson to be wrong about

Correct. She's annoying with it as well.

Great bangers though .

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Aye
But what if we’d been playing Frank Lampard’s Coventry Cathedral choristers.
Speaking of which, anyone heard from PUSBCCFC

 

[Bell4]

I prepare myself now. Time has taught me that it's wise

If we lose it won't really impact me as 1) I expect it and 2) I've been preparing myself for that ever since we lost to Oxford. If we win it will be an incredible shock - like a 200/1 coming in on the national. It won't be the result of a coin flip landing our way in my mind. The Hull and Man City semis didn't effect me negatively at all.

I'll have a great day regardless. It's strange as up to the Huddersfield Play off game and in the derbies (not the fake ones, the Sheff derby) I still get very nervous.

This


Of course I want us to win - but if we don’t , hey , carry on .

Enjoy the day - win and it’s great to celebrate with friends - lose , it’s great to be alive

 

[Grey Blade]

I would imagine that they are for the sake of variety in the PL and desire to see the Tyne-Wear derby back.

We shouldn't particularly care, though for those watching on TV the commentary will bound to be quite annoying!

Not bothered what she thinks. Never heard if her

 

[The Crab]

I would imagine that they are for the sake of variety in the PL and desire to see the Tyne-Wear derby back.

We shouldn't particularly care, though for those watching on TV the commentary will bound to be quite annoying!

I don’t care.

I have the impression that, generally speaking we aren’t all that liked so we might as well shithouse our way to a win. If being disliked is a thing the. I don’t really care. It’s lazy fodder fed to morons by the likes of failed football chairman Simon Jordan.

I quite like Sunderland but obviously I want to beat them. I’d just have enjoyed the schadenfreud of beating “Frank Lampards” Coventry