Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:
Newcastle have had massive dips in their attendance levels as well.
Most passionate and loyal? You're in a 1 club city with a couple of near rivals. You've got a unique situation geographically which makes the club slightly different to one in a 10 club city or a region like the north west with huge clubs every 15 miles.
Passion isn't sitting in the freezing cold showing off your fat, disgusting body. Passion isn't getting pi55ed and being proud of it.
The simple fact is that genuine football fans of Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea or Newcastle feel pretty much the same about their clubs. The glory hunters who follow those clubs will also feel a similar support of a different variety.
And being a Hull KR Geordie does look suspicious when you probably jumped on board when a Keegan, Gazza or Shearer was there.
No it wasn't jumping on board - I became interested in football around mid-1994 (aged 11), chose Newcastle to support because most people in my primary school supported either Liverpool or Man U (Man U especially seemed to gain a lot of bandwaggon-jumpers with their Double win in 93-94), so I wanted to be different to be honest. Newcastle had had a great season in 93-94, finishing 3rd in their first season in the Premiership, but they nonetheless didn't win anything, and in 17 years I have never seen them win a major trophy, so certainly don't feel I could be called a glory supporter, bandwaggon jumper etc.
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