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

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Hunwick Mackem said:
That was the day he went in the Notts Co home end and took them all on, by himself :lol::lol:
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He couldn' t fight his way out of a soggy bag then, he certainly cannot now.
Down Liverpool it was his birthday, unusually our bus was coming straight back. Mr S was under strict instructions to get home to go out with their lass and his family for a birthday meal. Stopped off in pub somewhere outside Liverpool, S badgers everyone on the bus for a birthday whiskey he must have had 30 plus tots. Next thing I notice a figure on all fours crawling along the bar floor. He does no more than sink his teeth into this local blokes arse. The bloke jumped a f***ing mile, what could he do faced with 40 odd of us. Felt sorry for him but you had to laugh. The game itself passed without further incident, on the way back S decides to strip off and parade up and down the bus in a st .george cross Safc flag proclaiming himself Caligula the roman emperor. Gets back home we put some of his clothes on and he gets off the bus with about a quarter mile walk home to meet their lass. He is absolutely sackless drunk, hurls his shoes at the bus and staggers off half naked. Mr. B who is half cut decides to be kind and give him a lift home. In the car they get. S gets dropped off and M pulls away with his mother shouting and screaming at the state of her son. Next day we are all out and S tells the tale. He had a massive fall out with their lass, she gave him the engagement ring back and called it off. He threw the ring out the window on the night and spent the Sunday morning on his hands and knees searching in the grass for it.
Ask him next time you see him.
 

Vauxie said:
Haway,have the stories dried up or what?

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Borough Rangers. all the Beehive/Borough/Vaux lads in one team.
More fight in us that that lot yesterday
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I recognise some of these faces but have nee idea of their names, just faces I've seen at various games over the years.

Can I just say that if I turned up at a match and they were the opposition, I'd put an immediate transfer request in !! FFS, scary!

TOONDOON said:
He couldn' t fight his way out of a soggy bag then, he certainly cannot now.
Down Liverpool it was his birthday, unusually our bus was coming straight back. Mr S was under strict instructions to get home to go out with their lass and his family for a birthday meal. Stopped off in pub somewhere outside Liverpool, S badgers everyone on the bus for a birthday whiskey he must have had 30 plus tots. Next thing I notice a figure on all fours crawling along the bar floor. He does no more than sink his teeth into this local blokes arse. The bloke jumped a f***ing mile, what could he do faced with 40 odd of us. Felt sorry for him but you had to laugh. The game itself passed without further incident, on the way back S decides to strip off and parade up and down the bus in a st .george cross Safc flag proclaiming himself Caligula the roman emperor. Gets back home we put some of his clothes on and he gets off the bus with about a quarter mile walk home to meet their lass. He is absolutely sackless drunk, hurls his shoes at the bus and staggers off half naked. Mr. B who is half cut decides to be kind and give him a lift home. In the car they get. S gets dropped off and M pulls away with his mother shouting and screaming at the state of her son. Next day we are all out and S tells the tale. He had a massive fall out with their lass, she gave him the engagement ring back and called it off. He threw the ring out the window on the night and spent the Sunday morning on his hands and knees searching in the grass for it.
Ask him next time you see him.
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None of this surprises me !! :lol::lol::lol:
 
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Hunwick Mackem said:
I recognise some of these faces but have nee idea of their names, just faces I've seen at various games over the years.

Can I just say that if I turned up at a match and they were the opposition, I'd put an immediate transfer request in !! FFS, scary!



Played against them a few times. Sunday league(aka beer belly league). They had some ok players but they were a nightmare. Remember playing them in a cup game at Ferryboat Lane. The ref had stupidly got changed and left his clothes in their Luton van as he didn't have a car. We were winning 1-0. Towards the end of the game they kept saying, ref if you blow for full time, you'll be walking home in your referee kit. He played about 10 minutes injury time and they equalised. Replay we got a corner early doors. As ball came over their keeper (BenGosha???) punched our CF with a beauty giving him a fat eye. AB says to ref you never saw that did you ref. No he says. They won about 3-0. Never been so pleased to get off a football pitch.
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Borough Rangers. Played against them a few times. Sunday league(aka beer belly league). They had some ok players but they were a nightmare. Remember playing them in a cup game at Ferryboat Lane. The ref had stupidly got changed and left his clothes in their Luton van as he didn't have a car. We were winning 1-0. Towards the end of the game they kept saying, ref if you blow for full time, you'll be walking home in your referee kit. He played about 10 minutes injury time and they equalised. Replay we got a corner early doors. As ball came over their keeper (BenGosha???) punched our CF with a beauty giving him a fat eye. AB says to ref you never saw that did you ref. No he says. They won about 3-0. Never been so pleased to get off a football pitch.
 
What a class read, mix following the lads away with drinking beer and the stories we can all tell are amazing. Notts County away when the pitch was invaded we had a gun pulled on us in a dodgy bar before the match as one of the lads thought it would be funny to keep the white ball off the pool table as a memento!( yes he gave it back). Blackpool away in the 3rd division they where selling the footy echo on the seafront there was that many down there. My mates in the arcades on a motorbike racing game bobbing side to side as we are getting surrounded by more and Blackpool fans wanting us outside and we are saying look around we've got to go, but oh no he replies I've paid so I'm finishing the game, they followed us along the seafront the some twat pulls a knife out so I whip of my good leather jacket and wrap it around my arm and challenge the twat to which he flicks the knife open and it's a flick comb. Remember the Arabs at a few grounds Definately chesters city , Arabs Arabs Arabs . I remember the Brum game with the Zulus and waiting to go to the mags away when one off the lads set a red smoke bomb off in the train before we set off , cops cautioned him at Gill Bridge but he still made the match. Class times with class mates . I'll not even mention Forest away eh Qwerty
 
Reiver said:
Robin used to live in the Mansfield area and is Godfather to my eldest son.

He travelled with us for a couple of years, great lad.
He had loads of brothers and all characters in their own way. Sean was a Sunderland supporter but not noticeably crackers like Tommy who seemed much more interested in the drink and the day out. I ran a coach at the time and various Connellys would be on it at various times.

Around his mid-twenties Robin wanted to go back to Shotton so I said I'd move him up, hired a van and drove up. We made it up for noon, unloaded and then he took me to some cave of a pub in Shotton. I'd never been to Shotton but it looked a bit wild tbh.

Some shaven headed pub monster took offence to Robin, probably because he was calling him billiard ball heed :lol:

The skinhead asked Robin outside but he declined,
'I'm not going outside with you.'
'Why not?'
'You'd murder me.'
'Fair enough.'

Welcome to Shotton :lol:

That night he took me to Shotton Club to meet the lads. As we were going through the front door there were two blokes in suits fighting on the ground. I said to Robin that someone should call the committee men.

"They are the committee men."

That was just the start, bottles thrown at the turn and a 10 man brawl outside after ....... happy days ;)



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Just about to go and let the ducks & geese out mate, a bit later at the moment, they don't like the frosty mornings.

Do you remember that time we were down Wembley for some match and me, Steve & Bing were in the Wembley Hinton. We were in the foyer, expecting you, and the car pulls up to the front of the hotel with the good doctor driving his posh car ....... then the back doors fly open and there's a flurry of empty cans and bodies :lol:
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Yeah definitely a breed apart Some of my first games were spent with these lads no wonder I've turned out the way I am lol.Tip Dick Sharrky a few that spring to mind
 
:lol:Someone mentioned Reading earlier so here's a daft little story that still makes us laugh.

There's 4 of us, who'd gone down for the FA Cup match without tickets, and we're sitting in a pub early on the Saturday hoping to find some spares.

We were having a good drink, playing cards and started to get hungry. So Bing goes up to the bar and asks what sarnies they have but comes back with a negative. It's my round next so I'm waiting for my drinks and notice a huge pile of sarnies covered in clingfilm. So I ask for 8 of any variety and some crisps to go with them.

The landlord grins at me and says 'home fans only'. At this point the Reading supporters were trooping in and being served with the fuckers!

I said nowt, got the drinks and went back to the lads. We decided to drink up and get off to the ground to look for tickets. So I asked them to sit tight for a minute while I went to the bar. I explained that, as the pub was filling up, we'd be doubling up on our rounds and changing to Guinness.

So I stand chatting to this f***ing wise guy about football as he's pouring the pints. As the last drop plopped into the last pint I asked him if he liked Guinness.

"Nah mate, fackin hate the stuff."

I nodded to the lads to get up to leave and said,
"Well you better try and sell this 8 ...... home fans only'"

For a reason I still don't understand we were all singing 'Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go' as we trooped out grinning at him ..... it just seemed to fit
 
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Vauxie said:
Haway,have the stories dried up or what?

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Borough Rangers. all the Beehive/Borough/Vaux lads in one team.
More fight in us that that lot yesterday
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Gunner, Alan bear Bryant, Cal Brown, Ray Forgie, glynn Lamma lamb, Ben Cooney, Bertie ostrowski, Ben gochea the cat, jessy Cresswell, Anthony Mr t Turner, John braveheart Thornton, Hammy Dolan, Slosher, Vince Ropa Robson
 
The next post I'll hoy up, after this, might well get the thread locked so ..... a big thanks to everyone who's contributed just in case.

It's been great to see so many people post honest recollections without boasting that we were the hardest, most organised, never ran etc.

The truth is that we were a huge mass of Sunderland daft supporters who were transported, once a fortnight, to Wales, London, the SW, Merseyside, etc.
Travelling around the UK was relatively rare in those days.

No matter what we've achieved since those days I'm sure we'd all agree we were just a bunch of working class idiots who'd do almost anything to make people around us laugh. That's something I'll always admire about Sunderland characters, the ability to be a figure of fun without feeling bad.

I'm happy to say I'm one of them.

I've done the daftest things just to break up a dreary journey, lift the mood after a defeat or get the lads singing at the match. I was the one at the top of the floodlights at York during the big crush. I was the one in the gorilla suit at Luton in the 70's, I was the one at Rotherham with the dark glasses & white stick.

I'm not alone, just one of thousands of great lads who've helped us all through the bad times.

We may not be the best club, the biggest attendance or have the most trophies ....... but we've some laughs.

Thanks again for all the posts, it's been great so please keep posting until it's locked or deleted ;)
 
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TOONDOON said:
He couldn' t fight his way out of a soggy bag then, he certainly cannot now.
Down Liverpool it was his birthday, unusually our bus was coming straight back. Mr S was under strict instructions to get home to go out with their lass and his family for a birthday meal. Stopped off in pub somewhere outside Liverpool, S badgers everyone on the bus for a birthday whiskey he must have had 30 plus tots. Next thing I notice a figure on all fours crawling along the bar floor. He does no more than sink his teeth into this local blokes arse. The bloke jumped a f***ing mile, what could he do faced with 40 odd of us. Felt sorry for him but you had to laugh. The game itself passed without further incident, on the way back S decides to strip off and parade up and down the bus in a st .george cross Safc flag proclaiming himself Caligula the roman emperor. Gets back home we put some of his clothes on and he gets off the bus with about a quarter mile walk home to meet their lass. He is absolutely sackless drunk, hurls his shoes at the bus and staggers off half naked. Mr. B who is half cut decides to be kind and give him a lift home. In the car they get. S gets dropped off and M pulls away with his mother shouting and screaming at the state of her son. Next day we are all out and S tells the tale. He had a massive fall out with their lass, she gave him the engagement ring back and called it off. He threw the ring out the window on the night and spent the Sunday morning on his hands and knees searching in the grass for it.
Ask him next time you see him.
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I'm proper creased at that :lol:

Sounds like some of the stuff I used to get upto
 
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