10 Best & Worst Reactions To Jack Colback's Move To Newcastle

2. "Probably Hate" You?!

https://twitter.com/Nathan_SAFC/status/476365151487414272 In a remarkably self-aware moment, Colback responded to the furore surrounding his move to Tyneside by admitting to BBC Newcastle that he didn't expect to make any lists of favourite former Sunderland players:
"The majority of Sunderland fans will hate me for the rest of my life."
Inevitably, Sunderland's fans responded in kind to the media's representation that Colback had said he would "probably" be hated. But the messages have been mixed - some fans have taken the outright hatred approach, while others chose disgruntled apathy - "we didn't want him anyway", which didn't go unnoticed with their Tyneside counterparts... https://twitter.com/tfeditor1892/status/476084347658055680
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