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Newcastle fullback Trippier: C'mon Sunderland (sort of)!

Newcastle United fullback Kieran Trippier has hopes of Sunderland clinching promotion next season.

Trippier admits he wants to experience a Tyne-Wear derby.

"I was speaking to the Geordie lads and they were saying how good it is," Trippier told Jill Scott's Coffee Club. "When they were in the play-offs, with Middlesbrough as well, you want the rivals in the same league.

"I would love to taste that derby. I wasn't supporting them but for the city it would have been good to get a big derby in the league again and I would, of course, love to play in one.

"That's the pressure. When you play your local rivals, for the supporters, it is everything. I have played in the North London one, I've been lucky enough to play in the Madrid one as well, and I think when the fixtures come out that is all the supporters look for."

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