User talk:Avaughan585

Mackem
Hi Avaughan. Yes I do agree that unfortunately most people aren't informed about the roots of the rivalry. In fact, just the other day I got all historical on a work colleague because she couldn't understand where it all stemmed from (but she wasn't particularly interested anyway). I suppose this part of the paragraph can stay, but to say that people have been "brought up to hate the residents of the rivalry" is POV. Surely yet slowly, I think Newcastle and Sunderland are becoming more cultured and most people aren't interested in the football rivalry anymore and I certainly wasn't brought up to hate Newcastle. Also, I think it'd be best to leave out "...when a rival from Newcastle is asked "what is wrong about people from Sunderland?" they are likely to reply "because they are from Sunderland", or "what is right about them?"." You'd have to make references to Mackem opinions to make the article NPOV and even then, those aren't the answers everyone would give. I hope this helps. Thanks Craigy (talk) 08:34, 13 September 2005 (UTC)