jam69
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It's mainly down to population and catchmentBoth Sunderland and Newcastle are historically better supported clubs than us, probably goes back to their relative success in the early days of the professional game, not a big deal really. We went down to a hard core of about 5k in our really bad days, Sunderland around 10k and the Mags about 13k. However, only one of the three has won something this century and only two of the three in the last fifty years!