He has always said he is a Celtic fan, when people have accused him of being bias towards Newcastle or Sunderland ... and that is true.
So what og his defence of Mackems who caused trouble at Central Station and have been banned by their club.
An open and shut situation? They allegedly kicked police dogs, ended up fighting the police, and were up for trouble with Toon fans ... so what's the problem?
Well McNally doesn't agree.
Brian McNally: Football fans remain one of the few sections of English society presumed guilty until they can prove themselves innocent.
The ongoing saga of a group of Sunderland season ticket holders banned from watching their team at the Stadium of Light is a situation that should concern every supporter in the country.
The fans have had their season tickets suspended on "suspicion" of being involved in post-match trouble in Newcastle on August 8 but nearly four months on none of them have been charged with any offence.
And with their bail being extended until December 21 they will be locked out of the Stadium of Light for the forthcoming matches against Portsmouth and Aston Villa.
The latest example of this unjust and unfair phenomenon of fans being treated differently to the rest of society is all the more surprising because it has occurred at a club where the admirable, famously fan-friendly Niall Quinn is the chairman.
The Black Cats have suspended the season tickets of fans who were caught up in a clash with Northumbria Police officers after alighting a football special train in Newcastle Central station after a friendly at Hearts.
The single arrest made on the night was for drunk and disorderly but since then 44 supporters have been arrested and bailed but no charges have yet been brought against any of them.
None of the season ticket holders can now watch their team at the Stadium of Light because of a club policy which means fans can be suspended from attending simply on suspicion of committing a football-related offence.
Those season ticket holders are effectively being punished before they are ever charged with an offence or even get a chance to plead their case in court.
What disturbs me about this case is that I arrived in Newcastle on a scheduled train that night shortly after the football special and the only injuries that I witnessed were to Sunderland fans.
I spoke to several blood-stained fans who alleged that they had been batoned by officers and bitten by unmuzzled dogs as they tried to make their way across a platform to the Metro station after being coralled by police lines.
The supporters I met told how they were kept sitting on the train for 15 minutes or more.They admit that some of their number were singing and chanting as they left the train but insist the police response was indiscriminate, heavy-handed and out of all proportion to the situation they faced.
The police claim that they were in the station in unusually large numbers to meet that train because of tip-off suggesting that some known Sunderland trouble-makers were on their way to a pre-arranged fight outside the station with a Newcastle United gang.
Quite why a football special carrying Sunderland supporters terminated in Newcastle- home of their fiercest rivals- is a bit of a puzzler.
But what concerns me most has been the police public relations campaign that has effectively tarred those caught up in the incident as thugs and hooligans.
They released edited CCTV images of the incident to media outlets but have refused fans access to the footage from those trying to prove their innocence.
They claimed that officers and police dogs were kicked and punched leaving the animals with the worst injuries ever seen in the history of Northumbria police force.
Yet a Football Supporters Federation investigation claims that no police officer needed hospital treatment that night and using freedom of information access they discovered that none of the police dogs required veterinary treatment.
Three fans were hospitalised with serious head injuries and I witnessed several sporting cuts and bruises more than an hour after the clash.
Without seeing the unedited CCTV images that the police will not release it is impossible to decide who or what sparked the trouble.
But I have little doubt that the police over-reacted that night using the sort of aggressive response in dealing with a large crowd that was discredited at the G20 protest.