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Not a thing I've ever heard before mind. We just say "mate" around here. I think the mackem piss take thing is more directed at the fact they right it down as text in the SMB and it feels a bit forced.

Are Millwall getting the train to Newcastle and then the Metro?

👍 Aye, my Grandad was a Washington miner and spoke full-on Durham pitmatic, used to call me and my brother his little Marra’s. Dad used it too, although to a lesser degree. It’s very common to hear it in Eshintin and Bairdlintin and all the weird little villages near there. The association with the knuckleheads is purely down to their habit of typing in dialect, because they’re desperate have an identity.

According to Dan Jackson, author of this https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/dan-jackson/northumbrians/9781787381940?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=18075688485&cq_con=&cq_med=pla&cq_plac=&cq_net=x&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsZjMlMnQhQMVuKFQBh2hCQzkEAQYAiABEgLaAPD_BwE#GOR010288790 miners worked in pairs and your marra was literally your partner at the coal face, the person you paired up with to extract as many of the black diamonds as you could. So it’s definitely Pitmatic and that applies to the Northumberland coal field and East Durham

Feel really sorry for the Millwall fans today going to Sunderland with all the hard bastard MLFs waiting to dish out a few haymakers and windmilling them all over the shop.

Perhaps he's specifically referring to the improved offside mechanism in the CL as opposed to the car crash "let me try and draw some straight lines and figure this out" bullshit in the PL.

It's an old NE word not exclusively mackem, it's a bit like the pretendy howay = Geordie, haway= Mackem thing. Yes it gets used for mackems now but your mate's right.

Seems like the games where VAR is active, it’s really fucking active. Look at that Man United/Bournemouth game. It’s not just one contentious decision, it’s one on top of another until it’s a lasagne of dogshit

Durham Mags are the worst marra.

Bought a new car yesterday. I always get new cars for the peace of mind and the warranty etc. Car has broken down today. FML.

Aye I do wonder whether he's not just basing that on the far fewer games there are in the CL too. But VAR is definitely not "a thing" every week in the CL like it is in the PL. It's on average two game changing stinkers a week in the PL these days.

bit bemused by the one bit where he was on about var.... was he suggesting it was being applied better in CL than the PL? wasn't our experience in paris sadly.

Aye, particularly seeing as he largely makes his living commentating on the competition that he's strongly criticising.

I can't bear listening to him and his co-commentators on TNT but he's to be applauded for that little speech.

FYP

Rwanda's nice with plenty of new accommodation, I hear. 🙂

Fair play.

right then, marra seems to have become a stick to beat the mackems with, but should it? my best mate down here, bleeds black and white is a born and bred blyth lad and fiercely proud of it. uses marra all the time. I pointed out to him the other day that in messageboard land at least marra is associated with being a mackem. I don't think he was very suited actually and probably our long standing friendship for getting on 4 decades now was what prevented me from having a bleedy nose. can't remember hearing it as a kid round the sunniside area or for that matter round stanley while working at the ever ready. research seems to indicate an origin of east durham pit villages but also those from northumberland too. are we offending huge swathes of our own support??

Must admit like, between us still having January’s weather while we’re deep into April and the absolute collapse of the country as a whole, fucking off to the first decent country that will have me is looking mightily appealing

Funny as this is, it's Brexit in a nutshell.

Well he can bloody well bugger off and live there then. Oh, shit! No, he can’t

He really twists the knife at the end with the French remark.