http://www.football365.com/You_Say_We_say/Jon_Nicholson/story_66811.shtml courtesy of John Nicholson...
Yeah i get his point but from a neutral point of view, the fact he's written that off his own back with no goading, he must have some complex about the south, 'the north got this and that' 'the north is better at this' .......to do that he MUST feel jealousy towards the south east otherwise why write it? I'm not really ************ed about the north, south except for that London gets everything, thats all.
Sounds like a bitter man pissed off because his big break in the London media circle hasn't come of age yet.
Yeah they just don't like it when someone says what everyone knows already, for some reason. Take it on the chin guys - any of them. I do like his version of 'North' though. I like not being lumped in with Birmingham. Hell, I live in Southampton now, anywhere north of London gets called 'the North' round here.
Yeah, that IS my team. Preston I support as it's my home club. But the mighty R's get my undiluted love. But don't blame me, it's my Dad's fault for trying to make me more cosmopolitan than my roots would potentially allow. Article's still true though
I don't think he has a chip on his shoulder, but a willingness to voice what we have all known since the year dot. That the North is a helluva a better place to be than the South. I mean, visited London, got crushed on the Tube, no-one ever smiled, and had a coronary at the beer prices. OK, London has lots of big impressive buildings, a bouncy bridge, and a very big hub cap on the banks of the Thames. But who cares? You can't see the buildings from the insides of a pub.
So you wouldn't swap your Northern slum for an international , cosmo, metropolis on a par with New York Paris and Rome? Stick your head back up your 'Aristotle' you misguided , lying jealous fool
I spend about 5 days a week in London. I always look froward to going north. I think it is much nicer there. Better prices for everything, and much nicer people. Newcastle was the culture capital of Europe, and is a wonderful city.... but i guess to some, it is just another northern slum.
Home is where most people want to be. I admit London can be a bit cold and unfriendly, but I prefer that to the "look at me I am so funny and everyone wants to be my mate" Northern character.
Rome- Expensive, full of bad drivers. Paris- Full of French NY- Great to visit, could live there, if I won the lottery. I thought London was expensive! I am perfecly happy in my 'Northern slum,' on the grounds that to live in the best bits of NY would be to win a rather large wodge of cash on the Lottery. London is full of cold, unfeeling career driven freaks. I'd rather be a Northern monkey, than a Southern fairy.
Your just jealous Peter Kay and Johny Vegas are northerners. Come on. Admit it. You are jealous. Really.
Not at all. Most of the best comics are from the South. Dry wit is the best form of comedy and I am afraid that is something Northerners don't do.
You lot are jealous of London full stop! Probably got more chance of bumping into 'em down here anyway, like the Gallagher brothers, they've seen the light. (Just popping out for a shandy with me northern mate Noel). Everytime you go on crap holidays to crap places you meet loads of Northerners, degrading themselves and their nationality- they don't know how to behave in company...They're also obsessed with London and love to slag her off..Go and read Aesop's Fables....The Fox and the Sour Grapes - sums you lot up.
When we used to go on the specials up to any of the Northern--above Brummie land--grounds there was always this fella that would shout out at the top of his lungs.. .."Right then lads..we're up North now..time to get the braces out and the wellies on".. Roars of laughter greeted this every time.
Just dont hold up Jim Davidson as a fine example of southern wit. If you did, I would be forced to hunt you down, and give you a funny bone transplant. New report came out today. Yorkshire and Cheshire are the best places to live in the UK. Please note. Not London. More millionnaires per square mile in Cheshire than London, too.
You silly Northern Monkey! Since 1988 Northerners have called us MUGS for being "Obsessed" with property prices and mortgages. Now 15 years on you silly lot have realised there's money in property, not MINES! We have peaked down here and will no doubt come up with another means of keeping our cash and you lot at arm's length. Whatever we do , you will follow a decade or two later. Maybe your football teams have won the league more than London clubs, but i wanted ManU to win before Arsenal anyway...See , we're a diverse bunch, individuals, it's what comes from living in the most diverse city in Europe....Face it, you can win the 'most league titles' any time you like, but don't compare anywhere up there to life in London, you just can't.
I don't really care about the North/South thing, but it does make me chuckle when I see articles like this one. This guy seems to have the typical Northern chip on the shoulder/inferiority complex, basically like the Scots but not quite as bitter. Why do people like this feel the need to shout out at the top of their comically-accented voices about how great they are and how rubbish London/the South is? Nothing about the North has ever made me want to live there on the occasions I have visited (mainly football-related trips). Yeah, the beer's cheap but if that's the only bloody thing you've got going for you then you've got to be a bit desperate. And 'the people are friendlier' - horseshit. That's all. One final point - Northeners just sound so funny when they speak - sorry, but it's true.
Mobile, You are right , and i'm not gonna rise to this sort of thing again. You are so right to about Northerners being 'friendly'- they're only friendly to other Northerners.