I know that there's planned protests this weekend at Newcastle, people are also scrambling to set up counter protests and such too. Newcastle is 90% football hooligans and violence so wondering how that is going to turn out (I always finish up shopping there by around 5 or 6pm then head home, as any later and they start crawling out the woodwork to drink and get loud/violent). These are people who will beat you mercilessly for just having anything Sunderland FC related on (massive rivalry between Newcastle and Sunderland football clubs), so people are anticipating a lot from this. Was also surprised they didn't take part in the initial riots, having Sunderland go first was the unusual part, normally Newcastle is more known for such behaviour.