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

[Hunwick Mackem]

Remember the SAFC Arab Branch that used to gan to all the aways back in the late 80's early 90's in a battered minibus. Full arab dress, sunglasses, tea towel on head held in place with snakebelt. Was one match down at West Brom where just as the game was about to kick off we got distracted by a big commotion going on over by the directors box in the stand to our left when about a dozen of these Arabs appeared in the seats on the front row of the top deck waving to all and sundry like royalty. A big cheer from our lot when we realised who it was. Also remember another time after a game at Stoke we were filling up with petrol at a garage on the outskirts when their minibus screeched onto the forecourt and they all poured out of the bus and into the shop. The look of horror on the lass at the tills face was a picture.

I'd forgotten all about them!! Tremendous I'm pissing mesell here thinking about them.

 

[Deleted member 6830]

1800 and counting

 

[Swindon Mackem]

I'd forgotten all about them!! Tremendous I'm pissing mesell here thinking about them.

I think they got those Arab dresses made at some novelty t-shirt shop in Blackpool, the "Sunderland AFC Arab Branch" lettering in black velvet ironed onto their backs ...... was a brilliant matchday costume

 

[millfield ftm]

I did a trip in the early 90's from Leeds to Sunderland with an ITV/Tyne Tees Film crew on board. The bus picked up us on the ring road in Leeds, came from the Stoke area, via Manchester. One lad, from Stoke, possibly called Anton, overdid on the booze, namely a bottle of cherry brandy, and was hammered for the duration of the trip. Getting back to Leeds I stepped over him in the aisle way, shirt off, he may have pissed himself also. Bumped into him in a pub before a game against Crewe years later, vaguely recognised each other, he remembered it, said he was drinking too much at the time !!

 

[oddjob]

Remember the SAFC Arab Branch that used to gan to all the aways back in the late 80's early 90's in a battered minibus. Full arab dress, sunglasses, tea towel on head held in place with snakebelt. Was one match down at West Brom where just as the game was about to kick off we got distracted by a big commotion going on over by the directors box in the stand to our left when about a dozen of these Arabs appeared in the seats on the front row of the top deck waving to all and sundry like royalty. A big cheer from our lot when we realised who it was. Also remember another time after a game at Stoke we were filling up with petrol at a garage on the outskirts when their minibus screeched onto the forecourt and they all poured out of the bus and into the shop. The look of horror on the lass at the tills face was a picture.

I remember them piling off a bus at Hull I think marching through the street chanting P,P,PLO.

 

[Swindon Mackem]

I remember them piling off a bus at Hull I think marching through the street chanting P,P,PLO.

Thats the chant, I was racking my memories trying to think what they used to chant

 

[dangermows]

Superb thread.

 

[Upstart]

Talking about clothes a drunken tale after a night out no one will own up to owning a pair the famous geordie jeans. Sweden 92 on a camp site my mate Garsy aka Paul well known brothers and sons taking his washing into the lauderette came back to the motorhome somebody nicked my geordie jeans .fuckinhell bad crack get back in there and sort it.Steaming over to the lauderette about twenty cockneys with their designer Armani jeans and clothes Garsy starts oppening the driers can't find them starts ragging the cockneys about we were outside trying to keep our laugh in Where's my geordie jeans everyone in launderettte vacacated shit scared got back to the motorhome he had left them in the van .Garsy if you are reading best two weeks ever

 

[Vauxie]

Think yr right tbh, from the early Northern Soul scene ?

Aye N.West

Shit to a blanket?

Went to a party in Seaham one night with one or two mentioned on here, the drink ran out so five or six of us walked up the street to the pub on the main road. The Kestrel, we were in five minutes then the local hairies came bursting in how we got out without serious injury I'll never know. Cuts and bruises was all we
Got , needless to say I never went back.


Always had Martens ox blood, never wore monkey boots .




Saw her in Louis not to long back,she was the lifeblood of the business


They had Victoria and Albert too.

Monkey Boots were on the go first as Docs were hard to get.Got my first Docs at the plase I served me time ordered from the stores.Then Reynolds and the Coop started selling them.

Couldn't get past West One and not get Luoma trousers !!!

Le Breves with the stitching on the back pocket, from that shop top of Maritime place next to the Indian restaurant, was it Sgt Peppers?

 

[Laeotaekhun]

don't bite man.
this has been a great thread with some cracking tales of people's experiences following this team of ours. it'd be a shame if it got binned.
iirc this is the second attempt to ruin it.

I've noticed that there's less than a handful of trolls (only about 3 or 4) who've made numerous attempts to derail the thread.

So far they've not succeeded and it would be a shame if they were to.

explosive im sorry football fans fighting is not explosive just sheer cowardly thuggery.

Btw this is possibly the worst post Ive ever read on any forum and that takes some doing old chap , hats off from me.

Nothing like as cowardly as posting insults anonymously on a forum, that you'd never dream of saying to someone's face.

 

[Vauxie]

Ipswich away very early 70's or late 60's. Tennick's buses leaves Dundas St about 11pm, managed to get on same bus as RK and the big lads.
Before going Alan the Bear and J.Summers had a toe to toe outside Marleys top of Roker Ave.
Anyway half way down middle of the night at a service station maybe Linclonshire or somewhere, there was something happened ends up RK and E.Hunter arrested and carted off in I think a little police panda van.
We get to Ipswich early morning, usual routine pinch a few pints of milk off the doorsteps mass game of footy in the local park.We found the public baths were for a couple of bob you could get a towel soap and a steaming hot bath.
As we were coming out Alan Bear being was being arrested after a fracas with some locals outside the baths, he was charged and released later
Pubs open and as usual took over a massive pub there was a few minor scraps, anyway decision was to mass up and take Ipswich's end.
Hell on when we get in then all of a sudden RK and E.Hunter appear turns out they had escaped from the police and hitched to Ipswich unbelievable man.
After the match, this was the days when the buses were allowed to stay until 11pm, there was a big running battle started outside a boozer that spilled over into a nearby graveyard was dark as fuck hard to tell who was who, this big lad with a Crombie and trilby on came at me then stopped as we were about to get stuck in as he saw my scarf. Anyway we got talking after it all calmed down and went back to the pub and had a pint.Since that night me and Big Steph became good mates.
Shite story I know, but this is about mental lads and he was believe me.

 

[Reiver]

All true marra...lad did jump off the stretcher to take pen but not sure if dressed as Batman, can remember everyone chanting for Hesford to take it and Gates getting booed to f#ck in his run up!

Remember geting showered with rust as lads were up in the girders in the roof, fighting in our end behind the goal and fighting in the seats, Adolf Hitler v Batman iirc...got the official match video in the garage somewhere..fukin great season for a teenager!!

Sorry for telling another long 'me' story but I was in the rafters with very dark sunglasses and a white stick shouting abuse at the referee .... you can imagine what

We'd been told the Rotherham pubs would be closed so we stayed on the train until Mexborough and went in a big pub outside the station. I walked in, with @Pedro and Steve creased up behind me, as I was bumping into everything and clipping people's shins with the blind stick.

Those two went to sit down, and get the cards out, as I tapped my way up to the bar and ordered 3 pints while looking the wrong way to the barman. As he put the first pint down I picked up another that a lad on a barstool had and downed half of it. The barman was frantically signalling that he'd pour him another while I took the first of ours to the table. When I came back the barman had given the lad another pint which I picked up and took a big glug. The lad is now miming "What the fuck?" at the barman who's getting really pissed off. I was biting the inside of my cheek trying my hardest not to laugh and my mates were keeping their heads down. The whole pub is whispering and pointing but saying nothing as I stand on people's toes and knock against their tables.

Eventually all the pints are on our table and Pete 'helps me' to my seat.
The pub settles down and conversation starts up again as we get the cards dealt out. After a few hands the big lump at the bar gets off his stool and walks over,
"Hey I thought you were blind."

"I am."

"Well how come you're playing cards?"

Steve stands up in his face and says, "He is ...... they're braille cards!"

It all turned a bit nasty after that but we managed to get out unhurt sadly I think we're barred for life

 

[buster]

Ipswich away very early 70's or late 60's. Tennick's buses leaves Dundas St about 11pm, managed to get on same bus as RK and the big lads.
Before going Alan the Bear and J.Summers had a toe to toe outside Marleys top of Roker Ave.
Anyway half way down middle of the night at a service station maybe Linclonshire or somewhere, there was something happened ends up RK and E.Hunter arrested and carted off in I think a little police panda van.
We get to Ipswich early morning, usual routine pinch a few pints of milk off the doorsteps mass game of footy in the local park.We found the public baths were for a couple of bob you could get a towel soap and a steaming hot bath.
As we were coming out Alan Bear being was being arrested after a fracas with some locals outside the baths, he was charged and released later
Pubs open and as usual took over a massive pub there was a few minor scraps, anyway decision was to mass up and take Ipswich's end.
Hell on when we get in then all of a sudden RK and E.Hunter appear turns out they had escaped from the police and hitched to Ipswich unbelievable man.
After the match, this was the days when the buses were allowed to stay until 11pm, there was a big running battle started outside a boozer that spilled over into a nearby graveyard was dark as fuck hard to tell who was who, this big lad with a Crombie and trilby on came at me then stopped as we were about to get stuck in as he saw my scarf. Anyway we got talking after it all calmed down and went back to the pub and had a pint.Since that night me and Big Steph became good mates.
Shite story I know, but this is about mental lads and he was believe me.

Fight outside a pub , ends up in a graveyard , went back to pub for more beer.

f***ing priceless ,reading this you just know this happened , no one could make this story up.

 

[Keith S30S]

Aye remember someone running on and taking the penalty, no idea where he came from but you could be right.

Elvis took a penalty down Bradford about 15 years ago IIRC.

I can't remember Rotherham and I was driving the hired transit. 13 of us in, no seats.

We went to Wakefield after the game, a fair bit of bother with local Leeds fans. Met up with some other lads who were from Grindon way. 3 brothers (1 out of our van) all got lifted and my best mate. Not great as he was posted in Germany at the time.

I think there was only 7 of us left on the journey home. 4 other lads had had a sniff of local blurt and went AWOL.

 

[Deleted member 39436]

Monkey Boots were on the go first as Docs were hard to get.Got my first Docs at the plase I served me time ordered from the stores.Then Reynolds and the Coop started selling them.


Le Breves with the stitching on the back pocket, from that shop top of Maritime place next to the Indian restaurant, was it Sgt Peppers?

I was indeed,Elliot was the guy that owned it, quite a few went out the back on a Saturday I'm told.

 

[Vauxie]

I was indeed,Elliot was the guy that owned it, quite a few went out the back on a Saturday I'm told.

Eh?

 

[Wakey ftm in Sussex]

Elvis took a penalty down Bradford about 15 years ago IIRC.

I can't remember Rotherham and I was driving the hired transit. 13 of us in, no seats.

We went to Wakefield after the game, a fair bit of bother with local Leeds fans. Met up with some other lads who were from Grindon way. 3 brothers (1 out of our van) all got lifted and my best mate. Not great as he was posted in Germany at the time.

I think there was only 7 of us left on the journey home. 4 other lads had had a sniff of local blurt and went AWOL.

Sounds like a typical Wakey night

 

[Keith S30S]

Sounds like a typical Wakey night

That was my first time in Wakey but I've been back a couple of times since, never had a bad night.

I met a Princess Diana lookalike in club Icon a few years ago. She was from Ponty and swore like a trooper. Spitting dabs apart from that

Tell a lie. I did have a bad night in Wakey or near there. Ended up arriving late on way back from a game, went to this big pub / night club that was a big open, square shaped room. We were getting some attention from the ladies but were also getting some evil looks and vibes from the local men folk and decided to call it a night.

 

[Monkey Hanger]

This tale is pretty vague, but perhaps someone can pick up on it. I think it was Derby away in the 70's. A group of us went into a corner shop. A lad diverted the shop keepers attention by doing conjuring tricks on the counter! Meanwhile the rest of the group where nicking everything in sight. Hilarious! I think the would be illusionist was a lad called Mugga, longish blond hair and used to wear a checked tam o'shanter. If he wasn't the 'magician' he was a main player in the incursion. If my memory serves me correctly I think Sunderland fans went on the rampage after the match???

 

[Reiver]

I've noticed that there's less than a handful of trolls (only about 3 or 4) who've made numerous attempts to derail the thread.

So far they've not succeeded and it would be a shame if they were to.



Nothing like as cowardly as posting insults anonymously on a forum, that you'd never dream of saying to someone's face.

It's hilarious mate and makes you wonder how empty their lives must be if this is how they choose to fill in their days.

They're like a little gang of amateur solicitors trawling the board for the tiniest things to pick people up on ...... yeah so people aren't perfect, recollections are hazy, dates forgotten. So f***ing what? No one ever claimed to be as perfect as these clowns see themselves.

If you never post any stories about matches or mates you can never be pulled up which, presumably, is why their 'contributions' to threads are almost inevitably criticising people or pulling them up on minor inconsistencies in their posts.

Either that or they don't actually have mates, don't go to games or have any stories.

Whatever it is you'd have to pity them ...... loads of people having loads of laughs and they're on the outside licking the windows