No I get that but the cringefest ceremony with Trump and the ticket prices are a new level of ridiculous. Alongside other relatively smaller things that might not have been noticed everywhere, like the delayed suspension for Ronaldo. Is there a precedent for something like that? On the verge of making the game look like a complete joke at this point and noone seems to be able to do anything about it. 

Probably would’ve still been on strike. I don’t think the club realistically had that option. He burnt all his bridges 

My mate bought a programme at RP in the late 80s and I had a glance before the game, one of their regular features must've been interviewing a fan. One of the standing questions was 'How do you celebrate a win against the Mags?"*  Which I thought was odd considering games against them were pretty sporadic for about twenty years previous and we'd had the upper hand which KK, (peace be upon him), was only going to further enhance.        *His answer? He said he'd go into Newcastle the following week and buy a video of it as it would be sold out in Sunderland but I don't think NUFC would be releasing a VHS of a derby defeat so I think he'd have been a bit disappointed at a waste of a journey tbh. (They didn't ever beat us that day nor ever again at RP).