Greening of club continues after derby win

I SPENT most of last week’s build up to the Middlesbrough game stressing that, contrary to mainstream media belief, The Wear/Tees clash is not really a proper derby match.

Although their fans despise us, there’s only one team that we really detest and that’s Mike Ashley’s Circus Superstars.

The town of Middlesbrough is over 30 miles away from us, buried in a haze of industrial fog in North Yorkshire. The lack of loathing we have towards The Smoggies is the only thing that both Sunderland and Newcastle fans will ever agree on. Still, we haven’t defeated The Magpies at home since 1980 and we’ve now beaten Boro at the Stadium of Light twice in the space of five months, so maybe I might have to search for a new-found loathing of Gareth Southgate’s men just to max up on the victories.