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I've met some truly mad Sunderland supporters .....

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Monkey Hanger said:
Remember the Bear = AB, yes. And Cal = CB, yes. And Gunner ? Maddest crew you'll ever meet. Original Vauxie's crew. Many of which still travel. All late 50's and early 60's now. Fine characters!
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@magcatcherhutch was a vauxie boy wasn't he ? Had a fight with a petrol dispenser nozzle on bath lane in Feb 79 and lost according to touchline tommy:lol:
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Think the maddest character I've ever met in over 50 years on the road following the lads was a guy from Sheffield who never missed a match home or away. In fact he used to hitch hike to most games. Often jumping coaches heading north after matches. We were match day mates between 72 and 78 then he just disappeared off the face of the earth???????
 
Confucius said:
You said you weren't old you twat. I knew 61 was the year you were born. Davey used to shout haway me bonny lads all of the time
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Ps bonny bairns not bonny lads, put your readers on ffs ya owld kernt;)
 
Monkey Hanger said:
Remember the Bear = AB, yes. And Cal = CB, yes. And Gunner ? Maddest crew you'll ever meet. Original Vauxie's crew. Many of which still travel. All late 50's and early 60's now. Fine characters!
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3 of us, around 16/17 year olds had travelled up on a service buses from Mansfield to Boro and ended up outside the closed turnstiles at Ayresome Park waiting to get in ......
....... the Boro lot were closing in and the polis just walked away.

Just when we were bracing ourselves for a kicking a bunch of Sunderland lads walked down singing about beehives ...... I've never been so pleased to see a bunch of friendly psychopaths :lol:
 
Living in Wakey & travelling home & away everywhere I had 3 key " groups" I knew .... colliery lads - Easington etc inc family, "townies" generally from the Beehive ( Gunner, Bear, Beazie, Donk, Sammy etc) & Frankies bus/lot.
All had brilliant blokes you could rely on if & when it kicked off.
Still see some of them at games, but we have all got older ( but not necessarily more sensible) ;)
 
Reiver said:
....... and struggling to think of the craziest.

Is it Mag Catcher who answered a Friday night plea, on RTG, to collect 2 tickets for the away FA Cup match at Bolton from a stranger, pay for them and deliver them to another complete stranger ...... not only that but he met us, insisted on buying us a pint and wouldn't let us pay him extra for driving to Whitley Bay late on a Friday night.

Or was it a lad we met at Southampton on Wednesday who travelled down with his dad and was staying overnight ....... not only that but he's down for the Bournemouth weekend with some kids who he takes when their dad's can't make it.

Was it the 2 'hippies' from Cumbria who rescued us from a pasting at Bristol City and used to find it hilarious to get us plastered in the Continental knowing we couldn't drive home and would end up sleeping 5 to a car at the back of the Boilermakers.

No, despite their claims, and those of hundreds more over 40 years, there's only one who can truly claim the crown ....... some of them were daft or ridiculously fanatical but this lad was actually clinically insane. He travelled with us for a couple of seasons although there have been many who've come and gone, some totally forgotten and some who only lasted 1 game before being asked to make alternative arrangements.

But this lad never annoyed us enough or failed to cough up the petrol money or swerved his round in the pub ..... in fact he rarely spoke in the car and was picked up near Newark railway station, he never told us anything about himself or allowed us to collect us from his home.

After two seasons, in the 1980s, he vanished and we never saw him again. When we discussed him latet we all thought one of the others knew who he was and had invited him ........ we realised we didn't even know his name!!!!!

We'd only ever called him by the nickname he'd earned, The Scuttler.

That came from his habit of vanishing as soon as we parked up then meeting back up in the ground at some point with bloodied knuckles saying, "Scuttled a few of them Cockney/Scouse/Mag/ etc bastards." :eek:

He never invited us on his escapades, never mentioned them again or expected any praise, comments or recognition

I've no idea what happened to him or why he stopped going. I've asked the other lads, who travelled with us, and they've no idea either ...... just one of those daft lads who pass like ships in the night who've we've all met over the years.

When I was at West Ham & Southampton I bumped into loads of the old faces and it set me thinking, hence this post ........ so haway, cast yer minds back and post some of the characters you've met over the years and, if you don't like the thread or the poster, just pass on by .....
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cheers mate ad do it again we are sunderland we never turn on our own and never give up ...true supporters till the end ftm
 
Have to give a mention of " Sheff " & " Billy" ( now from Bishop of dog at QPR fame) who I travelled by train with when we went by train, early mid 70's when there was sometimes 10 or less "lads" at some away games. The stories we could tell !! ;) ;)

shaun61 said:
Great story tho !


U r kidding ???
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You either mean Sheff, me or us both?
 
magcatcherhutch said:
cheers mate ad do it again we are sunderland we never turn on our own and never give up ...true supporters till the end ftm
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You probably don't realise what a hero you are in our gang .... a star who's mentioned a dozen times every season.

I think we met up last at Spurs or Arsenal last season.
 
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