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

[HU16 Mackem]

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.

HNY to you and yours also Shaun, life in HU16 is all well, the Mrs still following me round the country week in week out ha ha

 

[Deleted member 6830]

HNY to you and yours also Shaun, life in HU16 is all well, the Mrs still following me round the country week in week out ha ha

She's a diamond.
You were at RP April 70 v skunks werent you ? What were your memories ? You were 25 then weren't you??

 

[Buzzcock]

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.

Aye one of our lads fell onto the line and ran down the tunnel . The leader of the Chelsea mob sent Donno upstairs to tell them to turn the line off cos they didn't want any death's . We laugh about the fucker now but I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life .

 

[Roker19]

Is he still living over there ? The last time I saw him he'd come home for one of the lad's funeral's in 2015 .

Amby? Another good lad. Forgot Donno came back for that. Donno's been spotted in Roker lately, rumour is he's living in Jesmond. Not been in touch with any of the old lads I know.

 

[buster]

One of the best threads I've read for a longtime on any board ,

She's a diamond.
You were at RP April 70 v skunks werent you ? What were your memories ? You were 25 then weren't you??

That young ?

 

[Left For Dead]

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who is who on there, are we at the back heading down road?

Right outside the Waterloo pub on Bath Lane.
A load of mags rushed out then couldn't get back in cos the doors were locked. Best day ever watching Sunderland at Newcastle, it had everything.

 

[Buzzcock]

Amby? Another good lad. Forgot Donno came back for that. Donno's been spotted in Roker lately, rumour is he's living in Jesmond. Not been in touch with any of the old lads I know.

No it was a lad called Fred A who died . There was only 7 of us at Swiss Cottage and 2 of those are no longer with us . Very sad when you lose good mates like that .
As for Amby I don't think I ever saw him sober during the 80's / 90's . All good lads .

 

[buster]

Left for dead.

It was before the match iirc , we would be walking uphill.

 

[Deleted member 6830]

Amby? Another good lad. Forgot Donno came back for that. Donno's been spotted in Roker lately, rumour is he's living in Jesmond. Not been in touch with any of the old lads I know.

Amby.
Will never forget him jumping on to and dancing on a table in the Blue Bell whilst singing " we f***ing hate the mags" when fenton got winner v skunks in 96 rip

The big sunlun lad with the sheepy on seems to be side by side with a magin the bath lane picture

 

[Reiver]

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 .

Funny cos it's true.

I hitched down to QPR with my brother in law Stuart and was taken right to the ground which we took as an omen.

We lost and had some locals jump us after the game. Some of Frankie's lads rescued us and offered us a lift home on their minibus.

There were no seats left so we laid on the floor at the back getting soaked in diesel from a leaky drum one of them had nicked from work.

We stopped off, got drunk and got back in the van.

We stopped again hours later, they woke us up and, after the usual back slaps & handshakes, we piled out into the darkness of the M1 and waved them off.

We didn't have a f***ing clue where we were

Turned out they'd dropped us off at Worksop instead of Warsop and it was 2am! We walked through the night for 9 miles blind drunk ...
..... and you try telling kids that today

 

[Deleted member 6830]

Aye one of our lads fell onto the line and ran down the tunnel . The leader of the Chelsea mob sent Donno upstairs to tell them to turn the line off cos they didn't want any death's . We laugh about the fucker now but I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life .

If you look at the bath lane picture, the lad with braces on behind and to left of the copper, looks like Donno then ?

 

[Buzzcock]

Amby.
Will never forget him jumping on to and dancing on a table in the Blue Bell whilst singing " we f***ing hate the mags" when fenton got winner v skunks in 96 rip


The big sunlun lad with the sheepy on seems to be side by side with a magin the bath lane picture

He's no mag marra . He's the daft twat who fell onto the underground line and ran down the tunnel . He only came out when the signal turned to green anarl . Oh how we laughed

 

[HU16 Mackem]

She's a diamond.
You were at RP April 70 v skunks werent you ? What were your memories ? You were 25 then weren't you??

Never mind 25 you cheeky monkey, yes was there as an 11 year old, I had my first season ticket in the middle section at the back of the Fulwell End which IIRC was for kids only. Scum were on the clock stand side of us and the Sunderland chanters etc on the main stand side of us. Just remember the whole game sharpened coins and darts passing over our heads and coppers attempting to stop the many charges going backwards and forwards across our section which was almost empty.

Think this early experience set the tone for the following 45+ years and my shear hatred for the scum FTM

 

[Buzzcock]

If you look at the bath lane picture, the lad with braces on behind and to left of the copper, looks like Donno then ?

Aye he'd have been about 19 or 20 back then .

 

[Left For Dead]

Left for dead.

It was before the match iirc , we would be walking uphill.

there was a big turn out, we had that open end, typical sunderland we got walloped.

Aye maybe before, I was under 16 for that cant remember. Barnsley always been a bit rough.

 

[Deleted member 6830]

Never mind 25 you cheeky monkey, yes was there as an 11 year old, I had my first season ticket in the middle section at the back of the Fulwell End which IIRC was for kids only. Scum were on the clock stand side of us and the Sunderland chanters etc on the main stand side of us. Just remember the whole game sharpened coins and darts passing over our heads and coppers attempting to stop the many charges going backwards and forwards across our section which was almost empty.

Think this early experience set the tone for the following 45+ years and my shear hatred for the scum FTM

That sounds like the aug 68 game not the centenary derby april 70 (tueart equalised, Monty was brilliant) ?????

there was a big turn out, we had that open end, typical sunderland we got walloped.

Aye maybe before, I was under 16 for that cant remember. Barnsley always been a bit rough.

Eh, we beat the mags 4-1 on the day of the battle of b lane

Aye he'd have been about 19 or 20 back then .

Feb 79 I was almost 18 and he was 2 school years ahead of me.

 

[HU16 Mackem]

That sounds like the aug 68 game not the centenary derby april 70 (tueart equalised, Monty was brilliant) ?????

Defo not 68 game Shaun as I would only be 9 and had not started to go regular then, my first scum derby was 70

Eh, we beat the mags 4-1 on the day of the battle of b lane


Feb 79 I was almost 18 and he was 2 school years ahead of me.

 

[Left For Dead]

We spent the night in a hotel bar with a few of them, and a random group of Norwich fans. Sensitive souls they are, couldn't take any piss-taking without getting "larey". The Norwich fans were the complete opposite, cracking bunch.

Going to & from the ground they seemed to be all out to enforce their image of hard lads, even with their kids in tow. Even on the M6 on the way back home they were a load of ignorant gobshites. Worst set of fans I've ever crossed swords with, as a generalisation.

Manchester Semi, walk towards Old Trafford and there are 4 or 5 lads outside their house playing darts and drinking......dartboard on outside of door, they eyeball us as we walk past..."are you Sunderland" they say..."aye" > their faces change and they offer us to go inside for some beers and say do you want to see something funny. We enter a house with no carpets, no furniture, the first room we enter has 2 lads sleeping on the floor, he then shows us the dining room near the kitchen, 2 lads sleeping on the floor again. He then turns to us and says "Millwall".

They then give us some cans and go and get 3 fire extinguishers, they run in to the rooms and start blasting them with foam and they wake.....they had been sparked out cold as soon as they got in, seems they had been praying on Millwall as they went by. Sound lads, all part of the Anti Nazi thing, had a book called no surrender which he had written, still have a copy in the house.

 

[Buzzcock]

Manchester Semi, walk towards Old Trafford and there are 4 or 5 lads outside their house playing darts and drinking......dartboard on outside of door, they eyeball us as we walk past..."are you Sunderland" they say..."aye" > their faces change and they offer us to go inside for some beers and say do you want to see something funny. We enter a house with no carpets, no furniture, the first room we enter has 2 lads sleeping on the floor, he then shows us the dining room near the kitchen, 2 lads sleeping on the floor again. He then turns to us and says "Millwall".

They then give us some cans and go and get 3 fire extinguishers, they run in to the rooms and start blasting them with foam and they wake.....they had been sparked out cold as soon as they got in, seems they had been praying on Millwall as they went by. Sound lads, all part of the Anti Nazi thing, had a book called no surrender which he had written, still have a copy in the house.

That's weirder than Sammy's wardrobe incident.

 

[My Boy Harry]

He did but Ray Kennedy ran straight over to him and absolutely bollocked him to be fair!!

We went down in the car to that game. Before the match we were pissed and drinking in a bar within walking distance of Anfield. As we were walking along the road we started singing SAFC songs and it kicked off. one of my mates ended up fighting this scouser in a shop doorway and another had a bottle in his hand which he was going to throw at me. He bottled it (pardon the pun) and threw the bottle on the ground. At half time one of my mates ended up fighting inside the ground when a scouser took a swing at him. He smacked him in the mouth and he was lifted and fined £180. Every time he walked in the local after that the chant would go up "180" in darts fashion.

People have mentioned that day at Charlton when Millwall came over and 1500 ended up fighting on the pitch when their end emptied. IIRC The shields Gazette had an expose on it on the monday. It was them who quoted the 1500. The SAFC fans had no choice because their end was well represented by all sorts, including of course Millwall. The year or so before Millwall had chased me and my mates up that paddock at Charlton. I think I was about 17 or so. No idea who the Millwall were, we didnt hang about to find out. May well have been Harry The Dog and his mates. As I say I wasnt about to introduce myself to him.

We had a good one down Tranmere. Two consecutive trips running we had lads off the Chester le Street coach arrested and I was nominated to bail them out. One we had to go to Birkenhead Police station and the other was Wallesey. the second time I walked into the police station and the conversation went something like this:

Me - "I understand you have one of our lads in here"
Police - "whats his name"
Me - "gave his name". "When will he be out?"
Police - "Well that all depends"
Me "depends on what"
Police - "depends on whether you will take the other 3 SAFC fans who we have back on your coach"
Me - "what if we dont"
Police - "come back in 6 hours"
Me - "hand them all over"
Police - "let them all out Jimmy (his mate), theyre going home".

I walked back to the coach with 4 new passengers instead of one. IIRC we dropped them off on the A1 somewhere near Newton Aycliffe and they sauntered off with not a care in the world.