Why does sunderland hate newcastle

Sunderland 's 37th game of the Premier League season was a fateful one—not just for themselves but for the survival of cross-town rivals Newcastle and East Anglian strugglers Norwich. With a win against an underwhelming Everton side on Wednesday evening, the Black Cats could ensure their own survival and condemn the Magpies and Canaries to the Championship. Before kick-off, most folks on Twitter believed Sam Allardyce's side would escape the drop once again:.

Sunderland need no more motivation. Win, stay up and relegate Newcastle. They'll win tonight. The couldn't ask for a better scenario. You just know they'll escape. That's what Sunderland do after all You'd expect a much improved Sunderland to clinch safety tonight - but it's not a given. Everton playing for pride but showed none at Leics.

If Sunderland fail to pick up maximum points against Everton tonight then football is even crazier than I thought it was. Sunderland are masters at grinding out points when needed Newcastle fans watching the Sunderland game tonight In the 38th minute, Newcastle and Norwich fans received some inevitable bad news as the Black Cats took the lead through a Patrick van Aanholt free-kick:. If Everton were architects, they wouldn't get planning permission for that wall. Van Aanholt free-kick. Sunderland's prospects improved even further a few minutes later, when Lamine Kone smashed the ball into the back of the net:.

Sunderland winning. Norwich winning. Rafa Benitez right now But the Tyne-Wear derby wins in its secular and concise regional conflict. It does, after all, predate football by years. It is a conflict that has divided two cities, 12 miles apart, for more than three centuries.

In the epoch before the s, King Charles I had consistently awarded the East of England Coal Trade Rights try to contain your excitement to Newcastle's traders, which rendered the Wearside coal merchants redundant.

People died because of it. Coal and ships were Sunderland's raison d'etre. But when, in , the English Civil War started, and Newcastle, with good reason, supported the Crown, Sunderland, because of the trading inequalities, sided with Cromwell's Parliamentarians, and the division began. It became a conflict between Sunderland's socialist republicanism, against Newcastle's loyalist self-interest. A purposeful enmity if ever there was one. Unlike rivalries between other clubs, the differences between Newcastle and Sunderland date back to fighting based on the necessity to live and feed one's children, and benefit one's city.

The political differences between the two culminated with the battle of Boldon Hill. A loyalist army from Newcastle and County Durham gathered to fight an anti-monarchist Sunderland and Scottish army at a field equidistant between the two towns.

The joint Scottish and Sunderland army won - and Newcastle was colonised by the Scottish. It was subsequently used as a Republican military base for the rest of war. And while this is a lucid basis for two cities hating each other, it has, like every other modern-day derby, developed profoundly irrational manifestations. It has been noted that some Newcastle fans refuse to buy bacon, because of its 'red-and-white appearance' - the pinnacle, regardless of any jovial flippancy, of irrational behaviour.

As things stand, little chance of that changing dramatically and Newcastle v Sunderland becoming something tangible again, rather than something that you have check the history books for.

However, I do miss the added edge that derby rivalry gives on an everyday basis, having a laugh at their expense is just too easy these days.

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