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That the game Jon Stead scored?
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Was Kansas from Hendon? if its the same person (PM) sadley he passed away just before Christmas
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That's Kansas , PM.
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It's the contributions that make any thread mate and some of these have been brilliant.
It's interesting to read how all of our experiences are so different but how they sometimes merge into the same one.
As virtually lifelong exiles we started off in our teens travelling on local service buses to Forest, Sheff Utd, etc and wondering who all these Sunderland lads were.
We didn't dare approach these wild people who obviously knew each other and seemed larger than life, lads like you no doubt.
So us young exiles travelled around independently and eventually got to know each other after which we'd catch the bus together.
My first trip North was around early 70's for a pre-season friendly/testimonial at Ayresome Park to play Boro ..... what an eye opener
It was absolutely madness.
We were in the paddocks with the bulk of the Sunderland support in a corner to our right, there seemed to be small fights breaking out all round the ground.
At half time the Sunderland lads erupted out of the paddocks and charged the Holgate End. We didn't want to be left behind so took off across the pitch with them. Most of the Boro lads scattered, some climbing out of the ground, some tried to stand their ground but we're swamped.
When the Holgate End had become 'ours' people we'd never met were laughing with us and slapping us on the back.
That was the first time we'd been acknowledged or accepted and it was as if we'd finally come home.
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was this the season @Reiver 0-0 draw 69-70
only one I can recall v Boro in 70s was 75/76, a boiling hot day in the Anglo Scots cup - we lost 3-2, the crowd was around 10,000 with about 500 Sunderland there and there was hell on.
Me and Dave - my next door neighbour at the time {whose elder brother was a bit of a hoolie then and who posts on here as The.......}were in the Clive Road end to the right of the seats as you faced the pitch. Boro were in too and there were sporadic fisticuffs. There was bother in one of the paddocks too, but dont think there was bother in the H.E.
I remember that name, didnt he knock around with Donno and Dougie Smith ??
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Its Him Again
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Im really not sure. I know we got beat and we were shit. Nothing changes there
Yeah I remember being 3-0 down and a load starting walking out, there'd been chants of "You're not fit to wear the shirt" then a shirt was hoyed on the pitch, then Stead scored right at the death. Way too little, way too late.
magcatcherhutch
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my 40th in hexham had a bus on from sland n gateshead about 50 of us picking me up at callerton near airport where i lived then ,,,davey greener my best man from chester a local stand up comic entertained the bus , up to hexham to see big mackie we had a good night until another bus of mags pulled into hexham our bus was mostly sland n a few mags i grew up with we were singing away as greener tried to cool things down in a pub full of both buses then mackie just picked up this 6 foot stranger in a mag top and hoyed him high into celling of pub his head smashed through the plaster board fact ,,he fell in a heap i thought here we go battle time then his mags mates feecked off only for that mag to end up with mackie all night drinking ,,,we dropped him off in throckley on way home later on but that wasnt the end a few of us including greener ended up in ncastle night club hell on with out of 25 ish 3 in hospital 7 knicked including me as we met those mags again outside i think it was tux 2 ,,,,,,it made cronical paper [ saying stag party riot ] it was not our stag party i got fined near £300 for that night plus another black eye ,,,,law tried to say it was footy related as a few on both sides who were knicked had footy bother before ,,,it was just fate meeting in hexham and ncastle thats all , ,,
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Al Bundy
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Great pub. Those tambourines didn't half make a racket though.
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Mint bloke, known him for years, but as PM, anybody know why he was called Kansas? this was asked in the pub a few weeks ago and knowbody knew.
DisillusionedOldGit
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Was that the one with oval windows down the sides? I saw it at Burnley early 80's .
I believe you as we must be about the same age and I can remember those mad days. There used to be a massive following for us in the East Midlands . Some lads from New Ollerton saved 5 of us from a certain battering down at Cardiff in '76. On the way out of Cardiff 2 welsh wankers were shouting death threats at a transit van driver . He stopped, some lads got out the back, caught the gobshites and dragged them into the van . Several miles down the road, well outside Cardiff, the van stopped and 2 badly beaten naked taffs were chucked onto the road .
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That day was crazy wasn't it ...... the Ollerton lads were a good bunch and sometimes traveled on our coach from Mansfield.
SAFCDurhamFTM
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This thread is class. I'm 45 and sometimes wish I was older to have gone to some of these aways.
I started going away in 87/88 ish, started with Coxhoe lads (Skin, Stevie, Andy Trainor etc) for a few years, after that went with Stanley Pirates (even though I was from Durham) regularly for a few years. Happy happy days. I must know so many people off here by sight, or by drinking in away pubs with them, probs gone to a few aways with them etc. I'm sh*te with names anyway, always forget them.
As many have said, these days were class. Didn't give a toss about how sh*te the team were, in fact I preferred it when we were sh*t, at least it was proper fans going up and down the country then.
I always preferred mini bus away games than train, big bus or cars. Always had a crackin day, good sup, laughing all day/night.
BTW, the Davie Brookes mentioned in the thread, is this the one from Washington?
I started going away in 87/88 ish, started with Coxhoe lads (Skin, Stevie, Andy Trainor etc) for a few years, after that went with Stanley Pirates (even though I was from Durham) regularly for a few years. Happy happy days. I must know so many people off here by sight, or by drinking in away pubs with them, probs gone to a few aways with them etc. I'm sh*te with names anyway, always forget them.
As many have said, these days were class. Didn't give a toss about how sh*te the team were, in fact I preferred it when we were sh*t, at least it was proper fans going up and down the country then.
I always preferred mini bus away games than train, big bus or cars. Always had a crackin day, good sup, laughing all day/night.
BTW, the Davie Brookes mentioned in the thread, is this the one from Washington?
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Good question, I'll ask a couple of old Black Barts by the sea hands.
FishburnMackem
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Going down from NCL train station to kings cross on the train the morning of the cup final 2/3 years back, me and me brother sat in first class and shared the journey down with 2 elderly gentlemen. Had some class stories and made the journey down there if I'm honest.
Seem to remember one of them may have been called Bill or Jim? Said he had ties with the club or something like that, might of possibly been a journalist?
Incredible
Seem to remember one of them may have been called Bill or Jim? Said he had ties with the club or something like that, might of possibly been a journalist?
I was arrested at Bramall Lane when I single handedly dropped 5 Blades who'd attacked me and my 15 year old brother in law, my finest moment
I was arrested.
The copper who arrested me told me, when I complained, that they always arrested the winners ...... I had the last laugh though, I went to court and pleaded not guilty on the grounds that I was making a citizens arrest.
The fuckers were so confused I was acquitted
Incredible
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I've enjoyed reading this thread, if some never knew it has highlighted the magnificent support our club has had from outside the Sunderland boundaries,with lads who have followed the club fervently.I have been to a number of grounds in the seventies and always marvelled and felt proud of many a turn out.If only theclub had matched the support,we could have been massive.I don't think the sheer passion we showed back then can be matched now albeit it the last two home games did last season.
Yes it is.
If you went with the Coxhoe lads do you remember Tommy from London? Bleach blonde skinhead with a stutter. He was originally from Coxhoe.
I thought 'the Bear' taught Geography? Probably nicked the coat off Jimmy Hubbick! But he was only Deppity when I was there.
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Jeez I just looked at the date on your post. Never any good at History, mind.
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JohnAin
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I hope so
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