One Mackem With No Axe To Grind!
By Nu Mad
Updated Saturday, 4th October 2008
The funny thing about our latest "crisis" is that, even in times of despair, we ALWAYS make the headlines ahead of the Mackems!
We are hardly in a good position, second from bottom in the league, but if you watch the news each night, do you EVER hear the Mackems making the top story?
A city ... and club ... of mediocrity.
But one Mackem who has no axe to grind is
Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn.
Niall Quinn: "It would be wrong of me to talk about the situation at Newcastle in any other way than to say that I want all the clubs in the North-East to prosper and I want the area to be a hotbed of football where trophies are won, preferably with us winning the honours.
"I want to have a derby against Newcastle where we are both trying to get into Europe as a result of it. That's the derby we want.
"I don't want to be playing Wolves next year instead of Newcastle. I want to be playing Newcastle. I want to play them and I want to beat them.
"I want to make the derby bigger than it ever was.
"I have great friends here in Sunderland and whenever I go for a round of golf with them or a pint as soon as they get a bit lippy about Newcastle I remind them were we were two and three quarter years ago.
"We were miles away from where they are now. They are in a great position compared to where we were.
"I'm not privy to what goes on over there and I have kept my head down over the last couple of months because we have our own things going on, we are in a good position. But it's only good now if we protect and look after it otherwise in a few months time it could be us. I hope Newcastle get out of it."
