The clash included plenty of banter between the 800 Sunderland fans and the Newcastle faithful with chants of "Stand up if you hate the Mags" coming from the Leazes End corner before a response of ...

Sunderland’s social media activity has come under scrutiny with a post issued just weeks after Newcastle United’s Carabao Cup win. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Shields Gazette ...

Whenever local rivals Newcastle United and Sunderland AFC meet home or away it sparks weeks of banter between the two clubs' supporters and a huge policing operation to ensure the fixtures pass ...

Sunderland are up against the odds ... Reay told BBC Radio Newcastle: "We've had a lot of banter over the last 48 hours! They're going to take the game seriously as I would expect.

"I'm a Newcastle fan so always the enemy was Sunderland, of course it was," Bruce told BBC Radio Norfolk's The Scrimmage podcast. "But it never really felt that way for me because it was Sunderland.

The victory for Newcastle took them into sixth place in the table, overtaking neighbours Sunderland who drop to seventh.

Newcastle United Under-18s: Adam Harrison, Guy Bloomer, Aaron Epia (Jake Durrant 74), Henry Johnson (c), Jude Cogdon, Rory Finneran, Fraser Harper (Kacey Wooster 77), Alex O'Donovan, Kyle ...