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

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FIVE said:
Are here is again....bullshit threads bragging about his alleged exploits back in the day.........fantasist.
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Go away you obsessed weirdo, adults are talking.

I expect you think the people like @magcatcherhutch @Hoond @Pedro @CrosbyFTM @Wayne The Punk etc, who know me and have been at matches with me are all fantasists ....... you followed me around, last year, with this infantile bullshit and made no contribution.

If you don't like my threads don't come on them, you wouldn't be missed in the slightest.
 

Reiver said:
I agree with much of what you say tbh, the good times were great but some of the bad times were bad.

Trapped in a tube carriage after Chelsea, with the doors opening at every stop, was bad, hundreds of them trying to get in.

Almost being stabbed at Chesterfield.

Avoiding being pulled out of our car, by Man City at Stockport in the league cup, by driving along the pavement.

Really glad my lads weren't with me tbh.
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If that was the 1 nil defeat game in December 1975, I'd have been on the same carriage as you (there was loads of them waiting in Kings Cross station for us too - I was on the Travel Club's football special train).

I also had knife pulled on me inside the ground by a Chelsea supporter that match. Quite a tense trip out throughout that day.
 
The Fulwell said:
If that was the 1 nil defeat game in December 1975, I'd have been on the same carriage as you (there was loads of them waiting in Kings Cross station for us too - I was on the Travel Club's football special train).

I also had knife pulled on me inside the ground by a Chelsea supporter that match. Quite a tense trip out throughout that day.
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75 sounds right and we lost 1-0 so that ties in.

There was only 3 of us down and, from memory, around 1000 of us scattered around that big terraced end.

There were quite a few Chelsea in with us but also Arsenal as a few red & white scarves went up when they scored ...... we knew it was going to be a bad day.

It's interesting that you should mention having a knife pulled on you inside the ground because we did, I wonder if it was the same incident.

It was halfway up the terrace just to the right of the goal as you looked at the pitch. This Chelsea idiot pulled out quite a large knife and shouted 'come on then you Northern basatards'.

We were a bit shocked and thinking what was best to do when a Sunderland lad in a full length leather coat volleyed him straight in the knackers.
He immediately hit the deck and took a few more kicks from other people before the polis took him out.

The thing I remember most was that there was no expression on the Sunderland lad's face and he turned straight back round to watch the game after the kick.

He was standing on his own anarl which also stuck in my mind.
 
The Fulwell said:
If that was the 1 nil defeat game in December 1975, I'd have been on the same carriage as you (there was loads of them waiting in Kings Cross station for us too - I was on the Travel Club's football special train).

I also had knife pulled on me inside the ground by a Chelsea supporter that match. Quite a tense trip out throughout that day.
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Wasn't that the match where they got revenge for the shenanigans in the Roker End first match of the season ?

Just checked it was six weeks after the Charlton away match that has had many a mention on here recently as well.
 
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buster said:
Wasn't that the match where they got revenge for the shenanigans in the Roker End first match of the season ?

Just checked it was six weeks after the Charlton away match that has had many a mention on here recently as well.
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Yes, spot on. In the RE they had a decent crew - but succumbed in the end ( Bear etc).
Have mentioned this game before inc catching the bus from Blackhall at 11.30 Fri night, before in Kings Road, in the bench seats during & afterwards & a very lively stop off in Kilburn that night.
One of the most violent home & return fixtures I've known tbh !!
 
janey said:
I have to say I can't remember a lot of the names of the random people I met on away days but enjoyed some fantastic times. Flanny was a star when I travelled regularly on his buses.
One of the daft things that sticks in me mind was when we went to Amsterdam for pre season. We were on the train from the airport, it was full of Sunderland supporters and a Dutch bloke asked a Sunderland fan where he was from. The Sunderland supporter said "Southwick" when the Dutch bloke looked puzzled the Sunderland supporter said "you don't know where it is, it's near Marley Potts man"
For some reason that sticks in me mind and always makes me chuckle :lol:
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On that same weekend I travelled on the train from Amsterdam to the ground with a Plymouth Argyle fan. He said he'd seen we were playing and decided he'd come over and he was thoroughly enjoying the craic. He had absolutely no reason to be there other than he just fancied it
 
buster said:
Didn't even make it out the Central station for that match there was that many of the ***** waiting , ended up getting escorted back to the train by the police for our own safety. To say we were relieved was an understatement .
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How many went through for the testimonial ?
 
shaun61 said:
How many went through for the testimonial ?
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There was about half a dozen of us got on the train at Boldon and there wasn't many Sunderland on the train at all ,never even got out of the station so cannot answer how many went.
 
Uncle D said:
Just ignore the prick, he often spouts shite on these types of thread.
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the heading says it all whats his problem our stories are true funny sometimes hairy from older lads some of which were real entertainers from the past which was part of football those days ..
 
If @FIVE is posting on this thread then he is obviously trying to wind up as many posters as he can tonight as he has been hassling people one nearly every thread tonight.
Just put the fuckin lunatic on Ignore that way he can post til his hearts content but no-one will see the fuckin arsehole :lol:
It won't stop him posting though as he is as thick as fuck but at least you won't see the shite he is coming out with :lol:
 
magcatcherhutch said:
the heading says it all whats his problem our stories are true funny sometimes hairy from older lads some of which were real entertainers from the past which was part of football those days ..
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I seem to remember 75/76 had trouble at almost every game, inc home games. If he had caught the train with me to home games, when boro were also at home at the same time, he would have seen plenty - the stupid twat! Away days were very lively ;)
 
FIVE said:
Are here is again....bullshit threads bragging about his alleged exploits back in the day.........fantasist.
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And what are you then? A realist?

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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Still around

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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That will have been the Beehive Boys later to be know as Borough Boys before finding a new HQ in Vaux Club
 
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Vauxie said:
And what are you then? A realist?

The poor lad is desperate to attract attention, he'll lick the arse of anyone who disagrees with me.
I'm hardly boasting about my exploits, few of my posts are about fights, most are like the 'head shaving incident' or running from trouble.

That will have been the Beehive Boys later to be know as Borough Boys before finding a new HQ in Vaux Club
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Most of us had been shunted off to the East Midlands pit villages as kids ...... not to work in them though tbf ;)

When we were old enough to start going to games it was often the first time we'd been to Sunderland. We'd drive up from Mansfield, as 18 year old's, and go into the New Derby, Fort, Harbour View, etc, with our 'weird Midlandish accents' which didn't always sit well with Sunderland supporters who'd suspect us of being away fans. We once even had a fight on the corner of Bridge Street with some town lads who didn't like us cos we were 'pit village' ffs :rolleyes:

On the way up we'd have invariably bumped into real away fans, in the services, who fancied their chances against a car load of teenagers. We'd have the same problems on the way home. There would also be the added problems of Mags travelling in the opposite direction for their away games and we'd often bump into them at Wetherby or wherever. Hoy in whoever was travelling to the Boro home match and it could get really nasty especially if it was Leeds or one of the London clubs who hated Sunderland.

The worst I can ever remember was being at Leeming bar services with a Leeds coach on the way to our game, Sheff Wed on the way to Boro and Mags who were going to Forest. We'd hidden our scarves but we're sussed as 'Leeds' by some Mags who were chasing us. We put our scarves back on cos we'd rather have taken a kicking as Sunderland than Leeds.

By some miracle we tried, and failed, to hide behind the bins but came across rack after rack of full bottles of milk for the cafe ....... we managed to scatter the Mags and legged it back to the car.

So, regarding Beehives, Vauxies, Seaburn, etc, we barely knew who anyone was and would always go to matches as a car load. We always seemed to park in the wrong place so we'd turn away from the bulk of the Sunderland lads when we came out of grounds.

As time went on we became known to more people, like FW, the lads in the Boilermakers, etc, so it became easier over time.

But soft lads like you, who'd go to games from Sunderland with mates on coaches, hadn't a clue what it was like for us exiles ;)
 
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Reiver said:
Most of us had been shunted off to the East Midlands pit villages as kids ...... not to work in them though tbf ;)

When we were old enough to start going to games it was often the first time we'd been to Sunderland. We'd drive up from Mansfield, as 18 year old's, and go into the New Derby, Fort, Harbour View, etc, with our 'weird Midlandish accents' which didn't always sit well with Sunderland supporters who'd suspect us of being away fans. We once even had a fight on the corner of Bridge Street with some town lads who didn't like us cos we were 'pit village' ffs :rolleyes:

On the way up we'd have invariably bumped into real away fans, in the services, who fancied their chances against a car load of teenagers. We'd have the same problems on the way home. There would also be the added problems of Mags travelling in the opposite direction for their away games and we'd often bump into them at Wetherby or wherever. Hoy in whoever was travelling to the Boro home match and it could get really nasty especially if it was Leeds or one of the London clubs who hated Sunderland.

The worst I can ever remember was being at Leeming bar services with a Leeds coach on the way to our game, Sheff Wed on the way to Boro and Mags who were going to Forest. We'd hidden our scarves but we're sussed as 'Leeds' by some Mags who were chasing us. We put our scarves back on cos we'd rather have taken a kicking as Sunderland than Leeds.

By some miracle we tried, and failed, to hide behind the bins but came across rack after rack of full bottles of milk for the cafe ....... we managed to scatter the Mags and legged it back to the car.

So, regarding Beehives, Vauxies, Seaburn, etc, we barely knew who anyone was and would always go to matches as a car load. We always seemed to park in the wrong place so we'd turn away from the bulk of the Sunderland lads when we came out of grounds.

As time went on we became known to more people, like FW, the lads in the Boilermakers, etc, so it became easier over time.

But soft lads like you, who'd go to games from Sunderland with mates on coaches, hadn't a clue what it was like for us exiles ;)
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Aye a canny bunch of softies us lot.
There was some lads from Slough used to be at a lot of the games in the 70's, not sure what their connection with the club was.
 
Vauxie said:
Aye a canny bunch of softies us lot.
There was some lads from Slough used to be at a lot of the games in the 70's, not sure what their connection with the club was.
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;)

Never made contact with anyone from Slough tbh.

We came to know lads from Carlisle, Sheffield, Selby, West Midlands and the London lads.

At away matches we'd often try to get into a bigger group but sometimes it was better to slip away if we could.

It was always a big call on the tube Etc, whether to keep quiet in small groups of get together and make ourselves known :lol:
 
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