Caretaker1
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My experience of Makems goes like this .My eldest wanted to sit in the south the last time we played them and was crying her eyes out asking why they were shouting stuff and not just supporting their team. I keep being told they are nice fans but know a very good friend of the family who calls us ‘nappy rippers’. Started a new teaching role in a Sunderland supporting area so first day is game day. A new colleague took great pleasure telling me how he remembers coming down in white overalls and wore it through the match. Just horrible fans, the majority of them.
I married an East Durham lass and was welcomed into a Sunderland supporting family and found them to be the most wonderful people you would meet .
About 35 years ago around or just after the issues in Cleveland , myself , my young son about 11 at the time and my Sunderland supporting father in law , set off to a Boro away game possibly at Nottingham .
Makems were also on the road at the same time and we made a pit stop at Ferrybridge services to find a dozen coachloads of Makems in the car park , shops and toilets .
We ran a gauntlet of dogs abuse , shouting vile comments , spitting , swearing and threatening .
These were not the hooligan element .
These were older people , middle aged couples , kids , everyone there .
Since that day , although I love my in laws dearly , I regard Sunderland and their football club as a vile tribe of people .
Wife happily long since converted to Boro .