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

[Tom the Pom]

I know I'm sounding like a right old fart but it was a different world. Going round the town on a Friday & Saturday night you'd be guaranteed to see a fight in the Greens or the Black Bull & probably both. Going to a match was the same. I've seen just as much bother in the after match drinks session at away games, than at the actual game. There was always some locals who took exception to a group of lads in a transit van turning up for a drink in their town. Had bother at Accrington, Chesterfield, Wakefield, Gloucester, Rhyll, Blackpool & Doncaster on the way back from games. I can honestly say we never went looking for bother, but it was an occupational hazard for anyone who wanted a decent night out after the match.

Ditto, had the worse nights ever being stuck in "smaller" places. Walsall was a f***ing nightmare, maybe had summat to do with the fact we were in a Bikers Pub! Newark was another Wild West place, got into a reet scrap with Man Utd and West Ham who were there at the same time. Got stuck in a pub where Man U were and the bouncers locked the doors on us who got stuck in there. The rest of the lads managed to get out, realised we were still stuck inside and someone hoyed a bike thru a plate glass window to allow us to get out. Got two black eyes from that episode.......Magswonnowt was a bit naughty that night and thought it was a giggle to wind up a huge group of Man U. Loving this thread by the way and guess what...would I change anything, would I fuck, it was a bloody great time of my life, laughs and court appearances a plenty!

 

[Deleted member 6830]

Ditto, had the worse nights ever being stuck in "smaller" places. Walsall was a f***ing nightmare, maybe had summat to do with the fact we were in a Bikers Pub! Newark was another Wild West place, got into a reet scrap with Man Utd and West Ham who were there at the same time. Got stuck in a pub where Man U were and the bouncers locked the doors on us who got stuck in there. The rest of the lads managed to get out, realised we were still stuck inside and someone hoyed a bike thru a plate glass window to allow us to get out. Got two black eyes from that episode.......Magswonnowt was a bit naughty that night and thought it was a giggle to wind up a huge group of Man U. Loving this thread by the way and guess what...would I change anything, would I fuck, it was a bloody great time of my life, laughs and court appearances a plenty!

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This is totally correct. I vividly remember the skunk with an old man's face mask on, he was either hard as nails or daft as fuck, as he was the only Mag who tried it on at that Petrol Station. The Waterloo incident was class as it was a spur of the moment thing. Mags came out at us, seen the pack of lads we had out and went straight back in the pub. Sunland lads followed them in thru one door and they legged it out the exit door on the same street, straight into another set of lads. If anyone can put a pic up of the pub it would be easily explained how it happened. I was only 19 at the time, tall, skinny and a fart would have knocked me over but I felt like a man mountain in amongst the crew we had out that day. The train journey to Skunkville was friggan epic, never seen anything like it since and never will again. The Mags took a f***ing huge pasting that day, and they all know it

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[Buzzcock]

This is totally correct. I vividly remember the skunk with an old man's face mask on, he was either hard as nails or daft as fuck, as he was the only Mag who tried it on at that Petrol Station. The Waterloo incident was class as it was a spur of the moment thing. Mags came out at us, seen the pack of lads we had out and went straight back in the pub. Sunland lads followed them in thru one door and they legged it out the exit door on the same street, straight into another set of lads. If anyone can put a pic up of the pub it would be easily explained how it happened. I was only 19 at the time, tall, skinny and a fart would have knocked me over but I felt like a man mountain in amongst the crew we had out that day. The train journey to Skunkville was friggan epic, never seen anything like it since and never will again. The Mags took a f***ing huge pasting that day, and they all know it.

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[Deleted member 6830]

Wow, that bottom one is a shocker

Dunno how it happened but Gilly travelled with us for a while, perhaps @Pedro or @Richard The Third knows why.

Absolutely great lad but nearly got us into bother a few times.

He always wanted to run on the pitch

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[knitting away]

I have always wondered on seeing that if the bloke had a death wish !!


Iirc it was the windy day game Feb 90 when gabbadooni (As big Jack insisted on calling him) scored against the aforementioned hurricane.



Whilst league games were thin on the ground in the 70s, there were a few testimonials, Texaco/Anglo Scots cup, and 2 x league cup ties.
Not surprisingly testimonials involving the 2 clubs died out due to potential trouble and therefore policing costs.
Incredibly though, there was a ludicrous friendly double header in 1981 on 18th and 22nd August - we kicked off 81-82 season with an unexpected 3-3 draw at Ipswich !!
Anyway, back to the double header.
9982 saw a 1-1 draw at skunk park - Shinton 31 mins, Tom Ritchie 9 mins later. About 500 max went thru. Iirc they put us in the central pen and left the pens either side empty.
Home game we won 2-1 Allardyce and Hawley, the pit yakker scored for them in a 10332 crowd. They had around 700 /800 in the the 'RE.

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The infamous photo in the Echo of the array of weapons thrown over the FE wall by Sunlun young uns in readiness for Newcastle's arrival for the Centenary derby in March 1970. Frightening days.

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I was at the 81/82 game at SJP. Went with my Dad and his Mag mate and sat in what is now the Milburn Stand. I watched the away end and wished I was in there as Inwas told to say nowt all match. My first away game, 11 years old. All I remember was it was the first time I has seen the Le Coq Sportif Strip and first time I saw Pickering play. There didnt seem to be many there. My second away match was the Beardsley hatrick in 85, was in the Milburn Paddock again, silent. Fuckin horrible experience.

 

[air asia]

Most of our drivers were spot on, usually had the same one for years. On the odd occassion we be lumbered with a stroppy twat, but a few quid in his pocket would change his attitude.

For the 1990 play off game at SJP the Davy Lamp/Colliery Inn bus managed to recruit a driver who did not know the way to Newcastle. Seriously a local bus driver who only knew how to get to Gateshead Interchange...so thats where the bus went to ask directions. Obviously after many hours of drinking everyone had to get off for a piss and of course the place was crawling with mags. You can probably guess the rest!!!

 

[Roker19]

Talking of Felling a skin from the real early days, Docker from Felling, me and him got lifted at Bristol away, first season down 69 before the game but were let out.
Never seen him since those days


I went to the same school as him anarl


Geordie Cole HC wasn't he?


What about Anita?
I never connected any of the Cole lads with Seaham

I'm sure she was a barmaid in Styx (attached to Blue Bell) when I was an underage drinker. She looked terrifying to a 16 year lad at the time. Black lass with a full on skinhead,Fred Perry, braces, sta press & DM's. Me & my mates didn't dare give her eye contact in case she gave us a clip.

Ditto, had the worse nights ever being stuck in "smaller" places. Walsall was a f***ing nightmare, maybe had summat to do with the fact we were in a Bikers Pub! Newark was another Wild West place, got into a reet scrap with Man Utd and West Ham who were there at the same time. Got stuck in a pub where Man U were and the bouncers locked the doors on us who got stuck in there. The rest of the lads managed to get out, realised we were still stuck inside and someone hoyed a bike thru a plate glass window to allow us to get out. Got two black eyes from that episode.......Magswonnowt was a bit naughty that night and thought it was a giggle to wind up a huge group of Man U. Loving this thread by the way and guess what...would I change anything, would I fuck, it was a bloody great time of my life, laughs and court appearances a plenty!

Magswonnowt. Remember his brother? Was a real heavy drinker, used to drink with the Bear at one time IFRC. He'd have 14 pints or so before the match.

Once at Ayresome park there was about 50 of us going back to station. Just a random group, I'd been split up from most of my mates. Boro were waiting outside got into them & they legged it. Anyway as we walked past that park more Boro came over queue mass brawl. More & more Boro were coming through the park to join in. It was like Zulu, we were well outnumbered & no more Sulun turned up. They started getting the better of us and they chased us for about 100 yards, thenwe stood & it went off again. Eventually the coppers turned up & the Boro lost interest.

Anyway I remember Magswonowt brother saying"did you see what happned? I got kicked up the arse and now I've shit mesell". Honestly you could see it through his jeans. It stunk.
Apparently he used to do it regularly

 

[buster]

I'm sure she was a barmaid in Styx (attached to Blue Bell) when I was an underage drinker. She looked terrifying to a 16 year lad at the time. Black lass with a full on skinhead,Fred Perry, braces, sta press & DM's. Me & my mates didn't dare give her eye contact in case she gave us a clip.



Magswonnowt. Remember his brother? Was a real heavy drinker, used to drink with the Bear at one time IFRC. He'd have 14 pints or so before the match.

Once at Ayresome park there was about 50 of us going back to station. Just a random group, I'd been split up from most of my mates. Boro were waiting outside got into them & they legged it. Anyway as we walked past that park more Boro came over queue mass brawl. More & more Boro were coming through the park to join in. It was like Zulu, we were well outnumbered & no more Sulun turned up. They started getting the better of us and they chased us for about 100 yards, thenwe stood & it went off again. Eventually the coppers turned up & the Boro lost interest.

Anyway I remember Magswonowt brother saying"did you see what happned? I got kicked up the arse and now I've shit mesell". Honestly you could see it through his jeans. It stunk.
Apparently he used to do it regularly

Styx , ended up in a brawl in there one night after one of my mates got howked , turned out a lass from East Boldon pointed us out to some of the locals as being from Boldon , they took offence to the fact we lived about three miles away .

Fast forward a few years ended up laughing about it at college with some of the lads involved , fast forward many years later and the same lass who grassed us moved next door to me parents , silly cow never liked her anyway.


We had an almost identical issue at Boro , we were virtually the last through that park and we're getting attacked by Boro , we made it onto Linthorpe Rd to find out we must have been three hundred yards behind the main group heading back to the station , as we were walking ( rather quickly I add) to try and catch up , when about thirty Boro on the other side of the road decided to have a go , one of the lads with us just said lets get into them first , so we stopped and ran across the road at them , they scattered , we turned and legged it up the road to catch up with the main group , never shit me pants but I was close.

 

[bmp1970]

he has no fear wheres his top in club most sats ... his dad was from seaham way i think all local mags like him a sort of bobby thompson lad .married into a mag family when in teens i worked at manors rail station with him 77 a sort of mentor to look up to .he run the paper shop on it them days .. if you see the 1 1 draw v mags gabadineeeeeeee goal its him jumping up behind goal protected by his mag bros in law fact have a look .

Always thought that was two birds jumping up at the front of the Gallowgate in that game

 

[T_Bone]

Always thought that was two birds jumping up at the front of the Gallowgate in that game

Boro away, I've mentioned before about our shenanigans down there but one year there was hell on in the Yellow Rose pub. We were in the bar, Boro were in the lounge. It was one of Boro's main groups and I knew their main lad only because we sometimes worked together.Anyway we had a pint together, shook hands and then went to our own fans.
The newly refurbished bogs were wrecked. There was sporadic fighting and the Polis arrived so the Boro lot left.
They left before us but only to get more numbers and wait outside.
As we left the pub and when I say we I went to the game with one mate but I do know we were with a .Ferryhill mob it kicked off straight away in the pub car park. I was attacked by a number of Boro lads and me and my mate fought like Feck in the car park.
We were being attacked all the way to the ground but our group of about 40 were doing ok. It was as they say " a running battle".
Next season we played them on a Sunday afternoon and I finished work at dinner time and popped through with a neighbour who didn't support anyone.
We went into the Yellow Rose for a pre match pint and had no colours on. There were none of our lads in there just Boro.
I saw a load of coppers come into the room which was packed and said to my mate " Wonder what ' s gannin on "
A big space opened up and this Police Sgt told me to sup and get out. There was about eight coppers escorted me and my neighbour off the premises we were jeered and spat on by the Mutants.
I was obviously complaining asking wtf was wrong and the Sgt told me the landlord recognised me from the previous carry on and demanded I was ejected from his premises.
Mind I am an ugly Bassa, once seen never forgotten.

 

[Swindon On Tour]

Boro away, I've mentioned before about our shenanigans down there but one year there was hell on in the Yellow Rose pub. We were in the bar, Boro were in the lounge. It was one of Boro's main groups and I knew their main lad only because we sometimes worked together.Anyway we had a pint together, shook hands and then went to our own fans.
The newly refurbished bogs were wrecked. There was sporadic fighting and the Polis arrived so the Boro lot left.
They left before us but only to get more numbers and wait outside.
As we left the pub and when I say we I went to the game with one mate but I do know we were with a .Ferryhill mob it kicked off straight away in the pub car park. I was attacked by a number of Boro lads and me and my mate fought like Feck in the car park.
We were being attacked all the way to the ground but our group of about 40 were doing ok. It was as they say " a running battle".
Next season we played them on a Sunday afternoon and I finished work at dinner time and popped through with a neighbour who didn't support anyone.
We went into the Yellow Rose for a pre match pint and had no colours on. There were none of our lads in there just Boro.
I saw a load of coppers come into the room which was packed and said to my mate " Wonder what ' s gannin on "
A big space opened up and this Police Sgt told me to sup and get out. There was about eight coppers escorted me and my neighbour off the premises we were jeered and spat on by the Mutants.
I was obviously complaining asking wtf was wrong and the Sgt told me the landlord recognised me from the previous carry on and demanded I was ejected from his premises.
Mind I am an ugly Bassa, once seen never forgotten.

We know who you are Wembley 90....... alright lad

 

[KarenDent]

I'm sure she was a barmaid in Styx (attached to Blue Bell) when I was an underage drinker. She looked terrifying to a 16 year lad at the time. Black lass with a full on skinhead,Fred Perry, braces, sta press & DM's. Me & my mates didn't dare give her eye contact in case she gave us a clip.

not sure about that but If I saw Anita Cole in the town I always nodded to say Hello, as I wouldn't have liked to be on the wrong side of her, tbf she was alway canny to me and smiled and said hi back .

 

[T_Bone]

We know who you are Wembley 90....... alright lad

Don't get this mate. I was at Wembley in 1990 in the Swindon end. Me and my bigger and uglier mate were dressed as hula hula girls.
We were at the front of a big Swindon group singing our heads off and didn't get any bother.
The match put me to sleep ( Nowt to do with the pre match slurp)

 

[magcatcherhutch]

Sunlun

Always thought that was two birds jumping up at the front of the Gallowgate in that game

Always thought that was two birds jumping up at the front of the Gallowgate in that game

4 in all look left n behind him ,

 

[Roker19]

Styx , ended up in a brawl in there one night after one of my mates got howked , turned out a lass from East Boldon pointed us out to some of the locals as being from Boldon , they took offence to the fact we lived about three miles away .

Fast forward a few years ended up laughing about it at college with some of the lads involved , fast forward many years later and the same lass who grassed us moved next door to me parents , silly cow never liked her anyway.


We had an almost identical issue at Boro , we were virtually the last through that park and we're getting attacked by Boro , we made it onto Linthorpe Rd to find out we must have been three hundred yards behind the main group heading back to the station , as we were walking ( rather quickly I add) to try and catch up , when about thirty Boro on the other side of the road decided to have a go , one of the lads with us just said lets get into them first , so we stopped and ran across the road at them , they scattered , we turned and legged it up the road to catch up with the main group , never shit me pants but I was close.

Often trouble in Styx. Not that I was involved, sat in corner watching, hoping not to be sussed as under-age. Never really understood how we got past the bouncers, looked no-where near 18 at the time.

Might have been the same incident at Boro. Think it was a 0-0. Can't be sure went through there loads.

Talking of Felling a skin from the real early days, Docker from Felling, me and him got lifted at Bristol away, first season down 69 before the game but were let out.
Never seen him since those days


I went to the same school as him anarl


Geordie Cole HC wasn't he?


What about Anita?
I never connected any of the Cole lads with Seaham

Used to have good crack with an old Vauxie/Beehive/Borough lad early days at SOL, sat near us. Had great tales of early-mid 70's. Before my time. Proper characters then, Robey, Bev, Lama, Johnny S. Don't know them but know by sight. You around in them days?

 

[Perthyltonian]

Love reading this lads from far away in Oz.
As stated earlier we certainly had the best away fans in the country.
One of my many memories was about 1981 ish. I was a glass collector in Annabells, I always wore my red and white Le coq sportif top. A few of the Vauxies used to get in, Douggie was one and a big fella from Hylton Castle. They persuaded me to come to an away game with them. I was 16 or 17 skinny as fck and found myself on the bus on the way to West Brom.
I can remember Sammy the chin being on the bus and the lads having a whip round for his ticket and beer money, I'm sure I was daft enough to buy one of his scam domino tickets. the lads were passing the drink around and I was reminded "We never run"
Anyway beat West Brom 3-2 and the announcement that Barnsley was the destination for the stop off.
We reached Barnsley town centre looking for a parking spot, stuck out like a sore thumb with phone Sunderland 565etc on the back of the bus.
I can remember big meat heads looking at the bus as we parked in this massive car park with nothing else parked there.
The Vauxies split in to 2 groups and hit the pubs. Our group was getting on like a house on fire with the locals.
At the end of the night, heading back to the bus it was like a scene from Zulu, the whole of Barnsley were fighting the group of vauxies. I was pissed as a fart, sick all over my shirt and thrown on the bus by the lads.
What I can remember is not one of them ran and only stopped fighting when the police threatened to lock everyone up.
The police escorted the bus, minus it's windows out of Barnsley. I remember one of the lads shouting to the coppers "We'll be back" I have got no doubt they did go back.

 

[Vauxie]

This is totally correct. I vividly remember the skunk with an old man's face mask on, he was either hard as nails or daft as fuck, as he was the only Mag who tried it on at that Petrol Station. The Waterloo incident was class as it was a spur of the moment thing. Mags came out at us, seen the pack of lads we had out and went straight back in the pub. Sunland lads followed them in thru one door and they legged it out the exit door on the same street, straight into another set of lads. If anyone can put a pic up of the pub it would be easily explained how it happened. I was only 19 at the time, tall, skinny and a fart would have knocked me over but I felt like a man mountain in amongst the crew we had out that day. The train journey to Skunkville was friggan epic, never seen anything like it since and never will again. The Mags took a f***ing huge pasting that day, and they all know it

Absolutely spot on bonny lad

Often trouble in Styx. Not that I was involved, sat in corner watching, hoping not to be sussed as under-age. Never really understood how we got past the bouncers, looked no-where near 18 at the time.

Might have been the same incident at Boro. Think it was a 0-0. Can't be sure went through there loads.



Used to have good crack with an old Vauxie/Beehive/Borough lad early days at SOL, sat near us. Had great tales of early-mid 70's. Before my time. Proper characters then, Robey, Bev, Lama, Johnny S. Don't know them but know by sight. You around in them days?

Yes, know all of thosse lads plus more

Love reading this lads from far away in Oz.
As stated earlier we certainly had the best away fans in the country.
One of my many memories was about 1981 ish. I was a glass collector in Annabells, I always wore my red and white Le coq sportif top. A few of the Vauxies used to get in, Douggie was one and a big fella from Hylton Castle. They persuaded me to come to an away game with them. I was 16 or 17 skinny as fck and found myself on the bus on the way to West Brom.
I can remember Sammy the chin being on the bus and the lads having a whip round for his ticket and beer money, I'm sure I was daft enough to buy one of his scam domino tickets. the lads were passing the drink around and I was reminded "We never run"
Anyway beat West Brom 3-2 and the announcement that Barnsley was the destination for the stop off.
We reached Barnsley town centre looking for a parking spot, stuck out like a sore thumb with phone Sunderland 565etc on the back of the bus.
I can remember big meat heads looking at the bus as we parked in this massive car park with nothing else parked there.
The Vauxies split in to 2 groups and hit the pubs. Our group was getting on like a house on fire with the locals.
At the end of the night, heading back to the bus it was like a scene from Zulu, the whole of Barnsley were fighting the group of vauxies. I was pissed as a fart, sick all over my shirt and thrown on the bus by the lads.
What I can remember is not one of them ran and only stopped fighting when the police threatened to lock everyone up.
The police escorted the bus, minus it's windows out of Barnsley. I remember one of the lads shouting to the coppers "We'll be back" I have got no doubt they did go back.

Dougie C, i'm struggling with the big lad from Hylton Castle though.

Yes Anita, I'm losing it a bit now but always thought the Cole brothers and Anita were from Seaham.Jimmy married a Red House girl Linda Lodge,her brother Malcolm passed away not long ago.


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Last time I was in touch with Geordie was a long time ago when he was Scaff Supt in Amec wallsend

Saturday routine home games circa 69/70/71.
Full breakfast, polish the Doc's, board money paid.
Harrington,check Ben, levis jeans or sta press, braces on.
Bus to the town
Number 1 at Ainsley 59
Meet up with some of the lads about 9.30, we were the young skins then of course, upstairs in Quicks café in the market square good view of the station we were on point duty.
Out of Quicks if nowt to report and meet a few more of the skins outside City Stylish.
Walk over to Black Cat club for opening time.
By 1pm lot of the squad there and news of any away team fans here was exchanged.
More often than enough out of the Cat and join in running battles around New Derby or the old bus depot back of the Fulwell.
Remember when Sheff Wed came, Big Hubert and his mob hoyed bricks through the windows of the Black Cat.

Shite story I know but great memories of those skins, Ham, Stu, Ali, Bowers, Big Bill, Rosco, C. Ciaraldi,, Trevor M, S.Robson, Cal B, Steph D,K.Elliot. J.White, R. Sherriff,Tonto

 

[cesirwin]

little ray clifford . micky aggers .butch dalton .
big jimmy . kevin wilson my gateshead heroes of 70s ..plus some good mates sum gone sum still around wheeeeerrrrreeee the famouse gaaaatteeessshhheeeaaad branch and waa on the motoway motoway motoway ...

is that Ray Clifford the lad from Birtley/Barley Mow?

 

[TOONDOON]

in the early 60's when I started supporting aged about 13, Bonds Buses from Willington always had 2 bus loads of Willington/Sunnybrow lads going to home games

I started going to Roker Park on Bondies 1970, used to park outside the Wolseley on seafront. You from Willingtion?

And Hunwick ! Bondies had at least 3 buses in the mid 70s / 80s. 1 from Crook, 1 from Willington and a SAFCSA bus. Sometimes put an extra bus on when we'd won a game.

Quite impressive turn out from a small village amongst the background of 15/16000 home gates. The one my mates ran used to be on for most aways as well. Picked up all over the place. Any drun ks waifs and strays welcome. Before Keeganmania pre 92 Willington was 95% SAFC and most used to go.

 

[Hoond]

Talking of Felling a skin from the real early days, Docker from Felling, me and him got lifted at Bristol away, first season down 69 before the game but were let out.
Never seen him since those days


I went to the same school as him anarl


Geordie Cole HC wasn't he?


What about Anita?
I never connected any of the Cole lads with Seaham

Are we talking about the black Geordie Cole and family? He lived Hendon when I knew him,worked the Tyne yards as scaffold manager.....smashing lad and his wife and lads. I,d like to get in touch again with him as he has a few paragraphs in my new book...he,'ll soon be famous