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

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Roker19 said:
Aye but he got on the wrong side of it a few times. Remember Charlton, think it was the game when Millwall were on the pitch at the end. As we went to the match they were doing loads of building work outside their end. There was loads of wet tar on the ground and people were walking through it. Loads of DM sole prints all over the pavements. When we got to the train station after the bother at the match we went to the platform. When we got there, there was a dis-shevelled C he'd had a hiding & his face & clothes were covered in tarry DM prints. You can't write comedy like that.
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Aye, he tells that story.
Also, a lad called Donno stopped him from being stabbed by smashing a brick in a millwall fans boat. Millwall had come to Charlton to have a go at sunlun which they did.
 

shaun61 said:
Aye, he tells that story.
Also, a lad called Donno stopped him from being stabbed by smashing a brick in a millwall fans boat. Millwall had come to Charlton to have a go at sunlun which they did.
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Donno was with us at Swiss Cottage tube station. Good lad , daft as a ship's cat . I think he owns a bar in Tenerife now .
 
Can I just say that one of the best things about this thread are the amount of posters who are rarely seen.

What a welcome change ;)
 
Reiver said:
Without a doubt the most mental night I've ever been involved in, much worse than the SJP play off, etc.

Trouble on the way into the area, walking to the ground, outside the ground, inside the ground, after the match and driving away!

It was funny at the same time because it was so surreal.

You can find a Look North clip on YouTube that shows the trouble report followed by the match report :lol:
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Not just the most mental night but probably the most mental day in my life following SAFC.

Day started in court in Newcastle where I was a witness for Tommy L who had been arrested at SJP earlier that season, my superb witness statement and total lie's together with the total incompetence of the scum old bill resulted in TL getting off scott free.

Missed coach from Chesters and ended up driving down to the match.

Stopped at some services on M1 and witnessed Howie Gayle mooning on Gillies bus.

Got to game just in time and missed KO, totally stone cold sober for probably the only away game in my life, amid all of the mayhem trying to get into the ground cockney copper runs up to the Sunderland supporters trying to get into the ground and screams "f***ing get in 1-0 Speedie".

The events inside the ground and afterwards are well documented by others.

Me and Tom run the gauntlet back to the car and we eventually escape from London. Driving back up the M1 in Tommy's motor I fall asleep whilst driving and nearly kill us both.

Just another day in the life following SAFC and we lived to tell the tale.

Lots of pictures on this thread of us at Wembley for the final, another legendary weekend apart from the result LOL
 
Buzzcock said:
Donno was with us at Swiss Cottage tube station. Good lad , daft as a ship's cat . I think he owns a bar in Tenerife now .
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He used to - I met him in that bar the week before the LC final.
Went back a year later and he was no longer involved with it.
 
shaun61 said:
Aye, he tells that story.
Also, a lad called Donno stopped him from being stabbed by smashing a brick in a millwall fans boat. Millwall had come to Charlton to have a go at sunlun which they did.
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Aye Donno often used to tell the tale of how many lads he saved that day. I was on the pitch as well but never saw it. Too busy trying to look out for myself.
Saw Donno at the Man City Cup Final. He had a bar in Los Cristianos Tenerife. It was called This Way And That. Typical Donno never changed, before he moved to Tenerife his agency was called Flight Technical Maintenence. I've heard he's back home now.
 
HU16 Mackem said:
Not just the most mental night but probably the most mental day in my life following SAFC.

Day started in court in Newcastle where I was a witness for Tommy L who had been arrested at SJP earlier that season, my superb witness statement and total lie's together with the total incompetence of the scum old bill resulted in TL getting off scott free.

Missed coach from Chesters and ended up driving down to the match.

Stopped at some services on M1 and witnessed Howie Gayle mooning on Gillies bus.

Got to game just in time and missed KO, totally stone cold sober for probably the only away game in my life, amid all of the mayhem trying to get into the ground cockney copper runs up to the Sunderland supporters trying to get into the ground and screams "f***ing get in 1-0 Speedie".

The events inside the ground and afterwards are well documented by others.

Me and Tom run the gauntlet back to the car and we eventually escape from London. Driving back up the M1 in Tommy's motor I fall asleep whilst driving and nearly kill us both.

Just another day in the life following SAFC and we lived to tell the tale.

Lots of pictures on this thread of us at Wembley for the final, another legendary weekend apart from the result LOL
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Ha ha mate, I know who ur now.
BD telling porkys in court ?? Whod have thought it eh lol ?
Anyway, HNY, hope you and your long suffering lass are fine and dandy.:lol:
 
Vindaloo Man said:
Love these nostalgia threads.

Always enjoyed reading on here about the scrapes that 'Sammy The Chin' used to get himself into. :cool:
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How can other fans not enjoy reading this? Some do but as they weren't part of it denounce it. Who was there, 90s, Barnsley away and got beat 4-0....me and 5 lads were getting legged off about 10 older Barnsley. Three lads stepped across our path then headbutted 2 of the Barnsley......we stopped and legged on. Never knew who they were apart from the fact they were SAFC and were laughing before they struck.
 
I know this thread is not about violence and about mad lads following sunderland . But when you have hitched hiked , packed yourself in the back of a transit van and left Peterlee on a Friday night on Frankie's bus through the 70s 80s and 90s you met some great boys and you also got involved in alsorts of mischief .

But the one that sticks out for me was Everton away Boxing Day in the 80s . We had a transit van full of lads and we got into a pub called the blue house . It was a great day until Everton started coming in and the inevitable happened . A gap appeared in the pub and I ended up in the front . This scouse lad smashed a big type brown ale bottle and pointed the large glass edges at me and said this is yours you bastard so I picked up the nearest thing I could get my hands on which was a little britvic bottle and smashed it cutting my hand in the process my glass compared to his looked a bit weak but I still told him that he was getting it . He laughed before all hell broke loose it got that bad a police horse came in with big bastard copper with a bigger stick sorted it out. The bother carried on outside until we got the ground .

On the way home we stopped in Eccles And had a great night with the locals no trouble at all

There was trouble in those days but it would just happen it was something we never planned but every ground you went to it was about a group of lads having a laugh and going somewhere different on a Saturday .
 
Roker19 said:
Aye Donno often used to tell the tale of how many lads he saved that day. I was on the pitch as well but never saw it. Too busy trying to look out for myself.
Saw Donno at the Man City Cup Final. He had a bar in Los Cristianos Tenerife. It was called This Way And That. Typical Donno never changed, before he moved to Tenerife his agency was called Flight Technical Maintenence. I've heard he's back home now.
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It happened outside the ground not on the pitch apparently
 
Buzzcock said:
Donno was with us at Swiss Cottage tube station. Good lad , daft as a ship's cat . I think he owns a bar in Tenerife now .
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Bother with Chelsea wasn't it. Can't remember why Donno wasn't with our lot that day. Remember him telling us the tale afterwards.
 
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