When I walk in on Saturday

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sad-eyed prophet said:
will be 53 years almost to the day since my first match. 28th October 1961 against Plymouth. Roker stacked to the rafters,won 5-0,completely hooked from that day to this. Played 21 games at home that season....lost just one..to Liverpool, who won the league by a mile. Fortress Roker....magical times.We finished the season third,drew the last game at Swansea,if we'd won would have gone up on goal difference from Leyton Orient. Fuck........didn't realise I was old.....where's that time gone?
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Happy days marra

I remember our promotion 75/76

19/21 games at home won all but 2 which we drew against the Bristol clubs

O to have a home record like that nowadays
 


KNGHTHOOD said:
Could of been worse. could of been Chelsea at home last game of the season and Tommy Harmer just jock strapped a one in to win, and go up ahead of Sunderland.;)
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in some ways that was my first match even though I didn't set foot in Roker til the next season. But I was stood as a little lad with my mam just over the bridge on the Sunderland side waiting for my dad and my uncles to walk over (along with the thousands of others) so then we could all go for our tea. remember my mam saying as we waited..look at their faces. they must have lost. Wished so much to be one of them.

I was always a daft lad. 63-64 was great mind.
 
The Omega Man said:
43 years for me next Thursday.

Apparently though the younguns on here, those who play FIFA and are still wet behind the ears, you know the 22 year old know it alls, know more about football than you and I marra. ;)
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43 years for me to, but damned if i can remember my first game

RTRsBM said:
I just wish I was 19 again
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We are all 19 year's old at heart supporting the lads
 
KNGHTHOOD said:
Could of been worse. could of been Chelsea at home last game of the season and Tommy Harmer just jock strapped a one in to win, and go up ahead of Sunderland.;)
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That there are those among us who witnessed that and also witnessed last weekends game (on TV for me) tells a tale.
 
sad-eyed prophet said:
will be 53 years almost to the day since my first match. 28th October 1961 against Plymouth. Roker stacked to the rafters,won 5-0,completely hooked from that day to this. Played 21 games at home that season....lost just one..to Liverpool, who won the league by a mile. Fortress Roker....magical times.We finished the season third,drew the last game at Swansea,if we'd won would have gone up on goal difference from Leyton Orient. Fuck........didn't realise I was old.....where's that time gone?
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sad-eyed prophet said:
will be 53 years almost to the day since my first match. 28th October 1961 against Plymouth. Roker stacked to the rafters,won 5-0,completely hooked from that day to this. Played 21 games at home that season....lost just one..to Liverpool, who won the league by a mile. Fortress Roker....magical times.We finished the season third,drew the last game at Swansea,if we'd won would have gone up on goal difference from Leyton Orient. Fuck........didn't realise I was old.....where's that time gone?
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Still gets you in the stomach and rightly so.
Like you said where does that time go. People, Jobs, Relationships, Kids and everything else but the football remains constant.
Non football people just don't get it. The closest to religion you will ever get.

At work to this day (different jobs) if it's a mid week game I always say to everyone that I am going to church tonight :)
Good look tomorrow.
 
Started going with the old man in 78.

The stomach still churns on a defeat,and takes time to get over,but the feeling when we win makes it all worth while.

I often wonder how all this became so much ingrained in me...
 
50 years since my first game my old fella took me to a mid week game . Sitting on a crush barrier in the Roker End eating a bag of peanuts that the seller had chucked up from the front after my dad had passed the coppers down . The Roker Roar. The night time air. The shadows of the players cast by the floodlights. And so began my allegiance to Sunderland.
 
The first game I tried to go to was called off just before the match because of pea soup fog. Not sure but I think we were going to play Watford?

My first game watched a few weeks later was at Roker park, 3rd round of the FA cup 1973.....
 
zebedee said:
The first game I tried to go to was called off just before the match because of pea soup fog. Not sure but I think we were going to play Watford?

My first game watched a few weeks later was at Roker park, 3rd round of the FA cup 1973.....
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Gloryhunter!!!
 
sad-eyed prophet said:
will be 53 years almost to the day since my first match. 28th October 1961 against Plymouth. Roker stacked to the rafters,won 5-0,completely hooked from that day to this. Played 21 games at home that season....lost just one..to Liverpool, who won the league by a mile. Fortress Roker....magical times.We finished the season third,drew the last game at Swansea,if we'd won would have gone up on goal difference from Leyton Orient. Fuck........didn't realise I was old.....where's that time gone?
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So you got used to failure and last-day heartbreak early on then? ;)
 
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