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

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Vauxie said:
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OK here we go, it comes in 2 parts with a gap of about 3 years ..... @Pedro @CrosbyFTM @Hoond

The first part concerns a car driving to Aldershot down the M3 and the 5 occupants spotting an overloaded Sunderland minibus with a strange flag in the back window. It had a big red hand, with the thumb on the right hand side, which they hadn't seen on an SAFC flag before.

As the car, from somewhere in the Midlands, had a few daft lads aboard, thought it was crazy to drive into a military town with such a provocative flag they thought they'd have some fun. They surmised those on the bus knew exactly what they were doing and the significance of the flag.

So the front seat passenger reached into the glove box taking out the 'emergency pistol & balaclava' both of which were fake. The driver, known as Steve aka Steve, pulled alongside the minibus and started honking the horn.

The front seat passenger had wound the window down and was resting a vicious looking plastic pistol on the door while peering through the eye slits of the balaclava ...... the entire minibus threw themselves to the ground including the driver. The minibus looked like the Marie Celeste with no visible signs of life apart from the white knuckled hands of the driver :lol:

End of part 1.

A few seasons later a bunch of Midlands exiles are passing forged £20 notes to burger vans, programme sellers and gate men at the New Den, Millwall. At half time it's the same routine at the bar and several rounds are being bought amidst much chortling, sniggering & chuckling.

At this point a heavy hand comes to rest on the shoulder of the chief chuckler who assumes it's the police and turns to run. But this is a rough Sunderland pit yacker who announces, "You'd better get a pint in for me marra, if you know what's good for you," before bursting into laughter.

When the tension breaks, and the pair shake hands, the pit yacker explains he was the driver of the Aldershot minibus and 'nearly shit his pants' when the pistol was aimed at the van ...... believing it to be the military! He'd recognised the '£20 notes passer' as the imbecile in the balaclava and claimed his free pint ...... which was thought 'fair enough' under the circumstances, especially as the pints were virtually free.

This has been told & retold over the years between those involved and always raised a laugh ..... until now!!!!

Now the question surely is ...... how the fuck did the pit yacker recognise the 'shooter' when all he could've seen were his eyes:eek:
 
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Reiver said:
OK here we go, it comes in 2 parts with a gap of about 3 years ..... @Pedro @CrosbyFTM @Hoond

The first part concerns a car driving to Aldershot down the M3 and the 5 occupants spotting an overloaded Sunderland minibus with a strange flag in the back window. It had a big red hand, with the thumb on the right hand side, which they hadn't seen on an SAFC flag before.

As the car, from somewhere in the Midlands, had a few daft lads aboard, thought it was crazy to drive into a military town with such a provocative flag they thought they'd have some fun. They surmised those on the bus knew exactly what they were doing and the significance of the flag.

So the front seat passenger reached into the glove box taking out the 'emergency pistol & balaclava' both of which were fake. The driver, known as Steve aka Steve, pulled alongside the minibus and started honking the horn.

The front seat passenger had wound the window down and was resting a vicious looking plastic pistol on the door while peering through the eye slits of the balaclava ...... the entire minibus threw themselves to the ground including the driver. The minibus looked like the Marie Celeste with no visible signs of life apart from the white knuckled hands of the driver :lol:

End of part 1.

A few seasons later a bunch of Midlands exiles are passing forged £20 notes to burger vans, programme sellers and gate men. At half time it's the same routine at the bar and several rounds are being bought amidst much chortling, sniggering & chuckling.

At this point a heavy hand comes to rest on the shoulder of the chief chuckler who assumes it's the police and turns to run. But this is a rough Sunderland pit yacker who announces, "You'd better get a pint in for me marra, if you know what's good for you," before bursting into laughter.

When the tension breaks, and the pair shake hands, the pit yacker explains he was the driver of the Aldershot minibus and 'nearly shit his pants' when the pistol was aimed at the van ...... believing it to be the military! He'd recognised the '£20 notes passer' as the imbecile in the balaclava and claimed his free pint ...... which was thought 'fair enough' under the circumstances, especially as the pints were virtually free.

This has been told & retold over the years between those involved and always raised a laugh ..... until now!!!!

Now the question surely is ...... how the fuck did the pit yacker recognise the 'shooter' when all he could've seen were his eyes:eek:
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Wasn't it because it was always dark as night in the seams under the North Sea & he had superhuman eye recognition.... or mabees his mates grassed him up ;)
 
Reiver said:
OK here we go, it comes in 2 parts with a gap of about 3 years ..... @Pedro @CrosbyFTM @Hoond

The first part concerns a car driving to Aldershot down the M3 and the 5 occupants spotting an overloaded Sunderland minibus with a strange flag in the back window. It had a big red hand, with the thumb on the right hand side, which they hadn't seen on an SAFC flag before.

As the car, from somewhere in the Midlands, had a few daft lads aboard, thought it was crazy to drive into a military town with such a provocative flag they thought they'd have some fun. They surmised those on the bus knew exactly what they were doing and the significance of the flag.

So the front seat passenger reached into the glove box taking out the 'emergency pistol & balaclava' both of which were fake. The driver, known as Steve aka Steve, pulled alongside the minibus and started honking the horn.

The front seat passenger had wound the window down and was resting a vicious looking plastic pistol on the door while peering through the eye slits of the balaclava ...... the entire minibus threw themselves to the ground including the driver. The minibus looked like the Marie Celeste with no visible signs of life apart from the white knuckled hands of the driver :lol:

End of part 1.

A few seasons later a bunch of Midlands exiles are passing forged £20 notes to burger vans, programme sellers and gate men at the New Den, Millwall. At half time it's the same routine at the bar and several rounds are being bought amidst much chortling, sniggering & chuckling.

At this point a heavy hand comes to rest on the shoulder of the chief chuckler who assumes it's the police and turns to run. But this is a rough Sunderland pit yacker who announces, "You'd better get a pint in for me marra, if you know what's good for you," before bursting into laughter.

When the tension breaks, and the pair shake hands, the pit yacker explains he was the driver of the Aldershot minibus and 'nearly shit his pants' when the pistol was aimed at the van ...... believing it to be the military! He'd recognised the '£20 notes passer' as the imbecile in the balaclava and claimed his free pint ...... which was thought 'fair enough' under the circumstances, especially as the pints were virtually free.

This has been told & retold over the years between those involved and always raised a laugh ..... until now!!!!

Now the question surely is ...... how the fuck did the pit yacker recognise the 'shooter' when all he could've seen were his eyes:eek:
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Did the shooter speak ?
 
T_Bone said:
Did the shooter speak ?
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It was 70mph on the M3 so not much chance to speak.

As you know the 3rd division away days were insane.

I only missed 1 and wish I could go back to that season now.

You might remember Mansfield ;)
 
DisillusionedOldGit said:
Mansfield away was mental . I guess the problem was that many locals who supported us (no names no pack drill) were in the home end .
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All of the many pit villages, around MANSFIELD, were 50/50 Sunderland and Newcastle ........ when Sunderland arrived there was serious trouble in Forest Town, Clipstone, Edwinstowe, etc. Ask FW what happened when they turned up.
 
JTF said:
Surprised it took so long for Sammy the Chin to get a mention. I suppose it almost goes without saying that he was the most well known crazy character to follow the lads. He seemed to live his life like he was some sort of indestructible cartoon character (a cross between Tom & Jerry and Homer Simpson). Looking back its a miracle he somehow survived the 70s-80s as an away regular. Although he did take an enforced sabbatical for a while in the late 70s (probably the most eventful era in terms of away days) after being detained at HMP for that idiotic incident with the Man City fans.

As for big Mackie, he was certainly a fearsome looking character but he also seemed to be a pretty reasonable guy. I worked in newcastle and sometimes got the train straight down to our games from there in the 80s-early 90s. It always made me chuckle if I was sitting in a carriage in the station waiting and there were some away fans in there chatting (sometimes being perfectly reasonable, sometimes being a bit lairy) and big M walks in and they would stop talking literally mid sentence and you wouldn't hear a single word out of them until they got off at Seaburn and were away and clear.

Then there was Mensi bringing his Kings Road fashion sense to the RP terraces in the 70s...

Or Hunter (RIP) the last skinhead in the Roker in the 80s who seemed to have been born at least a decade too late...

Or how about a lad called Danny whose away day attire usually consisted of docks/kilt/celtic shirt and red wig in the 80s...
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Remember going to northampton away in 3rd division 87 with hunter in the back of a scruffy transit van, fuckin crackers he was but a good lad.
 
Great thread like I've said but interesting there is so little from 1990s onwards. Just been organising Feyenoord in March with the lads and we were discussing how it's strange that that whole period has been overlooked. And before anyone starts I'm not knocking the great posts- it's just curious the whole thing stops around 1990 when we're in 2017.
 
Stevie said:
Great thread like I've said but interesting there is so little from 1990s onwards. Just been organising Feyenoord in March with the lads and we were discussing how it's strange that that whole period has been overlooked. And before anyone starts I'm not knocking the great posts- it's just curious the whole thing stops around 1990 when we're in 2017.
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Perhaps that's because the 'after 1990 lads' are illiterate ;)

Being serious though I'd say that anything organised becomes less spontaneous ..... like the Palace Ultras.

Some of the characters, in the old days, were really off the wall tbh.

I'd love to hear about characters up to present but few seem willing to post.
 
Reiver said:
Perhaps that's because the 'after 1990 lads' are illiterate ;)

Being serious though I'd say that anything organised becomes less spontaneous ..... like the Palace Ultras.

Some of the characters, in the old days, were really off the wall tbh.

I'd love to hear about characters up to present but few seem willing to post.
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"If you'll gather 'round me, children,
A story I will tell
'Bout Pretty Boy Rivs, an outlaw,
Sunderland knew him well.

It was in the town of Manchester,
A Saturday afternoon,
His @T_Bone beside him in his wagon
As into town they rode.

There a manc fan approached him
In a manner rather rude,
Vulgar words of anger,
An' @T_Bone overheard.

Pretty Boy grabbed a flag pole,
And the manc fan he did his run;
In the fights that followed
Rivs laid those manc fans down."
 
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