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

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big les said:
Every time i went away with shields lot in the 90s...
Wheres Flanny?
"Been lifted"...
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Went to the league cup game down Goodison 1998 time with Shields..Flanny et all. .,me and me mate had to sit on the stairs of the coach all the way down anyway beats them on penalties back on the coach 'where's Flanny? ?'..lifted...where's this one.....lifted.....this one.....lifted......this one......lifted....i slept flat out on the back seat all the way home.
 
magcatcherhutch said:
i knocked around with you lot to long gateshead bus 76 onwards had more black eyes than king kongs had bannaannnaaaazzzz ...i know iam a shilling short of a couple of bob in nut but its down to you lot ..
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@magcatcherhutch why not get the old vauxie boys together and get Tommy Lynn to write a book about the adventures in the 70s 80s etc. From what I'm reading here, it sounds like it could be a hoot as opposed to those fairy story hoolie books
 
The Legendary Tongue said:
I know him mate, not back then, but he's a sound lad and still goes to the match.


No worries, I won't say say his surname but the lad I mentioned is mid 50s now and knocked about with them I think. He's from South Hylton.
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I remember Blackburn away in the cup mid 90s.
8,000 of us. I was in a big mob of lads before the game.100s of us.we were in a boozer,2 trees from Sunderland came in,poor fuckers shitting themselves,Blackburn lads had give them a hard time in their boozer.We piled out,DS on a mission,straight through the fire exits he was, first in.dozens of them ran out the boozer, straight into us.bad mistake.
do you know his brother in law, JL?
 
the dark one said:
I remember Blackburn away in the cup mid 90s.
8,000 of us. I was in a big mob of lads before the game.100s of us.we were in a boozer,2 trees from Sunderland came in,poor fuckers shitting themselves,Blackburn lads had give them a hard time in their boozer.We piled out,DS on a mission,straight through the fire exits he was, first in.dozens of them ran out the boozer, straight into us.bad mistake.
do you know his brother in law, JL?
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I don't mate but ower lass grow up with him if it's John. She's good mates with Annie.
I was at that game anawl but we didn't see owt gannin on, there was always a load of us from Seaham.
 
Surprised it took so long for Sammy the Chin to get a mention. I suppose it almost goes without saying that he was the most well known crazy character to follow the lads. He seemed to live his life like he was some sort of indestructible cartoon character (a cross between Tom & Jerry and Homer Simpson). Looking back its a miracle he somehow survived the 70s-80s as an away regular. Although he did take an enforced sabbatical for a while in the late 70s (probably the most eventful era in terms of away days) after being detained at HMP for that idiotic incident with the Man City fans.

As for big Mackie, he was certainly a fearsome looking character but he also seemed to be a pretty reasonable guy. I worked in newcastle and sometimes got the train straight down to our games from there in the 80s-early 90s. It always made me chuckle if I was sitting in a carriage in the station waiting and there were some away fans in there chatting (sometimes being perfectly reasonable, sometimes being a bit lairy) and big M walks in and they would stop talking literally mid sentence and you wouldn't hear a single word out of them until they got off at Seaburn and were away and clear.

Then there was Mensi bringing his Kings Road fashion sense to the RP terraces in the 70s...

Or Hunter (RIP) the last skinhead in the Roker in the 80s who seemed to have been born at least a decade too late...

Or how about a lad called Danny whose away day attire usually consisted of docks/kilt/celtic shirt and red wig in the 80s...
 
Does anyone remember a very odd character called Gordon who used to turn up at matches from time to time. Gordon used to clean windows and wash cars around the town and often get caught in compromising positions in the gents! I remember seeing him once at Brentford (div 3) after apparently been 'kidnapped' in Sunderland the night before!
 
magcatcherhutch said:
what a thread even if i did not get a mention some great lads i know well on here true stories outway bullshite curb hoppers claiming fame ...best lads ive ever met in footy from gunner to sammy smith to chris and geordie frankie w .i could go on and on made my night this thread ..
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Had some cracking away days on Frankie's bus.
 
Monkey Hanger said:
Does anyone remember a very odd character called Gordon who used to turn up at matches from time to time. Gordon used to clean windows and wash cars around the town and often get caught in compromising positions in the gents! I remember seeing him once at Brentford (div 3) after apparently been 'kidnapped' in Sunderland the night before!
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Gordon Kidd alias "the bucket"did some modelling for the fashion lads Davie Donachie etc Nigel Cabourne country attire, hasn't aged well. Tip top tip top.
 
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