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Beale bluster rubs fans up wrong way

Beale bluster

Chris Dunlavy

Michael Beale reckons Sunderland fans don’t like his accent. He’s wrong. What they dislike is his patter.
In the north-east, nobody likes a gobs***e. Nobody wants to hear about how talented you are or all of the fabulous things you’ve done.
“Nee-one likes a show off,” was a constant refrain from my own childhood, which I spent in a former mining village within spitting distance of the Tyne.
To boast about anything, however impressive, was to invite contempt and mockery. Your family might do it gently; your friends were rather more savage. Either way, you quickly learned how hu...

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