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

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Reiver said:
I've said this before but I'm sure some people in branch buses didn't see that much trouble, in those days, but that's a world away from travelling independently from a different part of the country.

Coming out of the away end at Spurs or Cardiff and seeing the coach people being escorted off to the right while you had to turn left, to where you'd unfortunately parked, was not funny in the slightest.

We may as well of had 'kick me' written on the back of our donkey jackets :lol:
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this is quite true for me. i travelled for years on the wingate bus (sometimes it took that long to get there mind:))
we were more interested in having a drink and rarely had any kerfuffle. in fact i can't really think of any apart from wolves once when a gadgie pulled a knife out.
there were some right characters on the bus, red and white through and through. happy times.
 
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humbug said:
this is quite true for me. i travelled for years on the wingate bus .... in fact i can't really think of any apart from wolves once when a gadgie pulled a knife out.
there were some right characters on the bus, red and white through and through. happy times.
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Yeah some of those drivers were crackers :lol:
 
HU16 Mackem said:
Fatfield lad must have been another time, the Ollie Burton game in 73 just after the cup final was one of Gateshead's finest GN

Yes William, but a death wish ????



Scum games particularly at St James just bring out the worst in a lot of us, surely you know what it feels like ??
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8 years not 8 months they reckon


"The Bear" was the nickname given to my Headteacher at Houghton Grammar. Probably the same bloke![/QUOTE]
No Bear definitely not a teacher
MADBOB THE MAKEM said:
the Bear was/is a top bloke he knocked around with Cal who is now banned off here for 8 month and lives in Asia
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Reiver said:
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:
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This is correct as before Vauxies were formed they were the Beehive boys, bit of useless info I know.
 
shaun61 said:
Does anyone know :-

1. the lad who runs on the pitch at end of 73 cup final and is in picture hugging Monty and stokoe ?

2. Eddie the eagle - Wigan 88

3. the lad who won us the LC home game v Chelsea when he ran on pitch and stewards took so long to sort, Chelsea went "cold" and we beat em 2-1. hope he got a ticket for final as we were dead without his intervention !
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Question 1. Yes he is from South Shields, his son is a Hollywood actor and has Porterfield as his middle name.
 
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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I met Mag catcher at Fulham in the cup, canny lad
 
Norton said:
Anyone remember Haggis from Houghton? When we were kids (about 9 or 10 ) late 1960 we would travel to the match on the Number 14 from South Hetton. We all believed he lived in the toilets in Houghton bus station and would be shit scared he would get on the bus. Was only about 2 or 3 years older than us. About 60 now!:oops::oops::cry:
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well theres a name from the past haggis his surname is houghton he is from peterlee used to travel with any daft lads who wanted a bit,
ex fireman he was as mad as they come we went to boro for a cup match with Roberts tours of sunny wingate city, geoff cummy, Davo, Haggis,Clarkey and four or five from Seaham i think it was big Tom Ridds Ralphy and either Ger or Millie,, what a game that was, fecking mental
 
I can remember playing three card brag in the coach and one of the lads, 'Wilf' iirc, losing with a prile of nines to a prile of threes and the bus nearly blew up when the lad with the threes laid it out. We'd been driving miles with the whole bus knowing Wilf had the nines but the lad with the threes literally kept them close to his chest so everyone was betting on Wilf to win. Total carnage when the threes went down and don't ask me which match because I can only remember the card game.
 
MADBOB THE MAKEM said:
well theres a name from the past haggis his surname is houghton he is from peterlee used to travel with any daft lads who wanted a bit,
ex fireman he was as mad as they come we went to boro for a cup match with Roberts tours of sunny wingate city, geoff cummy, Davo, Haggis,Clarkey and four or five from Seaham i think it was big Tom Ridds Ralphy and either Ger or Millie,, what a game that was, fecking mental
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LADS sorry i just found out the lad haggis i knocked about with is/was from the top of Peterlee he's a ex fireman. we used to go away with a lad called frankie he ran buses from peterlee and horden,and its a different haggis who you lot were on about, i understand he is a lad from Houghton,
 
MADBOB THE MAKEM said:
well theres a name from the past haggis his surname is houghton he is from peterlee used to travel with any daft lads who wanted a bit,
ex fireman he was as mad as they come we went to boro for a cup match with Roberts tours of sunny wingate city, geoff cummy, Davo, Haggis,Clarkey and four or five from Seaham i think it was big Tom Ridds Ralphy and either Ger or Millie,, what a game that was, fecking mental
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so does anyone know the Houghton
one?
 
We were on our way back from Millwall iirc and it hadn't been a great day.

It had been a long day with a bit of trouble, we were lost in London, tempers were fraying and we still had hours to get home ......
...... not only that we had lads to drop off in various places so the driver was getting cranky through lack of drink.

We pulled up to ask directions and Pete Crosby, @CrosbyFTM pay attention, jumped out and went into an all night barber.

After 10 minutes, of waiting, I was absolutely f***ing raging and just about to go in and drag him out.

But the door opened and Pete came out with his head shaved down the middle leaving just the bits around his ears .....
..... he looked like a baldy middle aged man and we all cried with laughing, I thought I was going to choke.

We laughed all the way home and as we dropped him outside his house, at 2am in Beeston, Pete said,
"Wish me luck lads, I told her I'd take her out for a meal when I got back!"

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Linus said:
From Hexham. (Mackey )
Don't know him, but many times back in the day, have thankfully been in his vicinity at the Central Station etc.
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@Barboza dh9 ?

Mad Gilly from Stanley ( RIP )
Proper character , huge hooped pirate earrings , string vest
Always used to shout good arrows good arrows !
Absolutely crackers & a MLF
Legend
 
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humbug said:
this is quite true for me. i travelled for years on the wingate bus (sometimes it took that long to get there mind:))
we were more interested in having a drink and rarely had any kerfuffle. in fact i can't really think of any apart from wolves once when a gadgie pulled a knife out.
there were some right characters on the bus, red and white through and through. happy times.
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Still travel with wingate lads, mainly with Jeff C but mick and Dave sometimes too
 
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