I feel your pain, I Currently live just outside newcastle have 2 kids aged 1 and 4, the little girl is 4 and I try my best (taking her to games when we're down, buying her kits ect) to keep the support alive, but I know its going to be an uphill battle as they get older, the wife's family are split 50/50 Sunderland, Newcastle and finding it harder and harder whilst both their fortunes are beginning to look up whilst ours are looking ever so bleak and its gotten to a point I feel like just giving up, its just embarrassing the way the club is run.