Since returning home I’ve been once more amazed at the quite obvious hatred the Southern-based media has for the North - and, in particular, the North East. 

If it has always been bad, you might expect it would slowly improve as we pushed back the boundaries of ignorance,  but it is getting worse and I don’t know why.

Below is from www.nufc.com and refers to football but it also applies to so many other topics.

North and South divide?  It’s just London, it’s media and its government I have an issue with.  I, like most other Geordies I have spoken too, would quite honestly prefer to chuck our lot in with the Scots. Expect more rants.

 Now that the transfer window has closed… 

…we’re out of the FA Cup, have no more trips to the Emirates or Old Trafford, have got rid of one boss, brought in another and made various other appointments of a non-Gosforth nature, can we just say:

Enough patronising bollocks from every man and his dog masquerading as news or comment on events in this region, this city and this club - you simply haven’t got a f**king clue what you’re on about.

Try reporting the facts instead of what you or your London masters would like to hear.

Try getting past the KK “Messiah”, “Second Coming”, “impatient fans” - all cliches invented by the media, not the supporters.

Try seeing past brain dead Vox Pops or meaningless online polls as spurious evidence that the lies you pen have any basis in local opinion.

Try hiding the regional prejudice that would see you branded as racist, were it to be presented as news about other nationalities.

For a club that isn’t “big” (whatever that means), it doesn’t half get a lot of coverage….

To anyone still paying money for The Mirror, The Sun, The News of The World, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Mail, why not just read their continual anti-Toon tirades online instead of shelling out for the privilege of being insulted and/or patronised?

Exhibit A: The scandalous Sun and Mirror front pages this week with Keegan / £100m / Wise concoctions.

Exhibit B: The Mail’s allegedly funny Dennis Wise diary stumbles to day 3 here. Somebody is getting paid for writing that.

Exhibit C: Victoria Derbyshire, Nicky Campbell, Alan Green, Eamonn Holmes, Clem, Terry Butcher, Steve Claridge - you’re the shite, you’re the shite of Radio 5. Bigots all.