Ritchie from Gateshead

Good to hear a semi-sensible view expressed in this otherwise nonsensical thread. However, you suffer from certain inaccuracies, to wit;

Roy Chubby Brown is from Thornaby, 2 miles from Middlesbrough and nowhere near Geordieland.

Harry Pearson I don't know - perhaps I should?

Vin Garbutt is from Skelton, just to the east of the Boro - he and I were at Wilton ICI together as apprentices - again, he has no Geordie in him at all

Chris Rea is of the Rea's ice cream family based in Middlesbrough and Redcar (where I went to school)

David Coverdale I don't know

Wendy Richards soon lost any Geordie accent when she went to Albert Square!!

Gazza, the only one you ascribe to the Boro is a true Geordie born and bred - what he's doing at the Boro, God only knows (do you want him back??? - thought not)

But hey, this is better than all that spurious Irish nonsense that's been done to death so often in the past and truth to tell, we Boro lads probably don't hate Geordies at all - my wife's family come from Gateshead.

On reflection, that could explain a lot...........

Cheers, Terry