Back seat on the way there so not me
Asleep on the way back because someone knew where they were going as they headed up the M6
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Back seat on the way there so not me
Asleep on the way back because someone knew where they were going as they headed up the M6
Swindon Mackem
Winger
I remember that Preston match, buses poured us out right by the turnstiles at the home end so naturally we went in through those gates. PNE fans on the terraces backed away as more and more of us poured in and we just gathered in the middle of the terrace. Poliss arrived and rounded us up and escorted us all down the front and round the track to the away end, meanwhile more SAFC were coming into the terraces behind us from the turnstiles. We'd just got into that old wooden stand away end when right on cue everybody just upped and ran back across the pitch to the other end which scattered PNE fans off the terrace and away. They should have left us at that end which was alot bigger than the little wooden stand we'd been allocated. Wasn't Bobby Charlton manager of Preston that season? We lost the game 1-0. I remember our bus getting a window bricked after the match too.First time at Preston 74? I could see some of ours fighting on their end. I trotted round the pitch alone for a look see. Saw ours were outnumbered & trotted back. Saw my older cousin & mates so waved them towards me to help out. Suddenly the whole end just swarmed onto the pitch & ran towards their ( high) end. Loads went over the wall & up the terrace & chased pne out the back. We all went back to our end, walking past shocked locals
Got home & my mam said Dickie Davis had been on tv talking about it, she asked me what I'd seen & I just said....seen nowt
All this is absolute truth
DisillusionedOldGit
Winger
Where was he from, was it Felling ?Crackerjack but a very good supporter ...... funny as well
Just the kind of lad this thread was all about in fact.
I remember the build up the fervour and the anticipation of playing Millwall 78 after the panorama programme on Harry the dog /F troop seemed like every nutter from the pit villages/Peterlee was on Frankies bus but can't remember the game nowt must of happened or I would of remembered still remember some of the chants of the build up sound cringeworthy now.Sometimes show my son and his mates up singing them they look at me as though I'm nuts. Boots are made for kicking Axes made to kill we are going to milwall we will we will we will
R
Reiver
Guest
Millwall really set themselves up in that Panorama programme and 'invited' every nutter to go there for a go.
That game saw very few 'scarves' show up, understandably, but loads who were a bit daft ..... Millwall were very quiet that day.
There was a TV crew in the street and some of their lot were being interviewed ..... we stood behind them taking the piss
I enjoyed that but I bet the TV people didn't use that bit.
magcatcherhutch
Midfield
haway lads m lasses your favorite sland song from late 60s till 80ish mine are plastic mac from fulwell end v arsenal with near 3000 singing it as one wonder what macdonald thought of it that loud .and from the banks of the river wear to the shores of cicilly where gonna fight fight fight for sunderland till we win the football league to hell with man united to hell with liverpool where gonna fight fight fight for sunderland till win the football league .
Hunwick Mackem
Central Defender
I was always quite fond of the one that went .....
When the black n white maggie comes bob, bob, bobbing along ..... shoot the bastad, shoot the bastad !
Thanks to you and everyone else, I'm really glad so many people have enjoyed it so much.
The thread must be a real kick in the teeth for those people who invariably come on hilariously posting 'pwopa nawtee', at any thread such as this, or insisting no one is interested in the stories from Sunderland supporters about the times they lived through ......
...... I think this thread demonstrates that people were more tolerant, of each other's faults, in those days and much more ready to laugh at themselves.
People, these days, are so quick to pick up on the tiniest things and quick to forget that this is all supposed to be just a laugh. Endless agonising about transfer fees, players contracts, etc are dreary no matter how factual. Yes, we may all be looking back in a nostalgic haze but it's just how it was and I, for one, won't apologise for being young, daft and living in the times we were born into.
It was bloody good fun, none of us were perfect but I'm so glad for all the memories ...... bloody great
This is spot on. In our day you went to the match with your mates. It was part of your routine & the whole day was was the experience. Maybe I'm wrong but Sunderland very rarely won away games when I went away, as far as I remember. In them days the post match analysis at an away match lasted about 10 minutes in the pub after you'd safely avoided the home fans. Consisted of who you thought played well & who scored. Then on with enjoying yourself. Now people are on here trying to analyse who was to blame for X, Y Z & it lasts for hours if not days. Of course it could be people much more knowledgeable now. Alternatively our lot didn't have the benefit of endless slow motion replays & condescending twats like Lineker, Shearer & the sky lot telling you what to think.
Difference was it was down to one person's opinion vs another but there was no way of proving it one way or the other.This is spot on. In our day you went to the match with your mates. It was part of your routine & the whole day was was the experience. Maybe I'm wrong but Sunderland very rarely won away games when I went away, as far as I remember. In them days the post match analysis at an away match lasted about 10 minutes in the pub after you'd safely avoided the home fans. Consisted of who you thought played well & who scored. Then on with enjoying yourself. Now people are on here trying to analyse who was to blame for X, Y Z & it lasts for hours if not days. Of course it could be people much more knowledgeable now. Alternatively our lot didn't have the benefit of endless slow motion replays & condescending twats like Lineker, Shearer & the sky lot telling you what to think.
I cite the Rodwell tackle as evidence.
True, you called it as you saw it/remembered it. People didn't hold on so strongly to an opinion & resurrect arguments though. On TV now they regularly can't agree on tight decisions even with replays. My point is in our day people seemed to take opinions for what they are, without being obsessed with being right.
Hunwick Mackem
Central Defender
To be honest, on awaydays more often than not I couldn't remember enough about the match to form an opinion, never mind argue with someone elses'
nandos sonic sauce
Striker
Good post. Everyone has seen thousands of other games. Going to SAFC games for me from day one , was me a young lad born in Sunderland, but living down south, hardly watching the game, as i clocked peoples emotions as they watched.The songs.The way they sung. There was a raw passion. It blew me away as a kid. I knew i belonged. I knew i wanted to be part of it, and i ad an older brother who used to go all the time telling me i was part of it. I have grown old of how footballers act, and what they are paid, and what football has become, sometimes, but i've never grown old of that feeling of pride. The pride wasn't in the players.They were just actors in the play. The fans were the reason i fell in love with the club, and still love itThis is spot on. In our day you went to the match with your mates. It was part of your routine & the whole day was was the experience. Maybe I'm wrong but Sunderland very rarely won away games when I went away, as far as I remember. In them days the post match analysis at an away match lasted about 10 minutes in the pub after you'd safely avoided the home fans. Consisted of who you thought played well & who scored. Then on with enjoying yourself. Now people are on here trying to analyse who was to blame for X, Y Z & it lasts for hours if not days. Of course it could be people much more knowledgeable now. Alternatively our lot didn't have the benefit of endless slow motion replays & condescending twats like Lineker, Shearer & the sky lot telling you what to think.
Midnight Toker
Central Defender
I thought the dodgiest thing about Preston in the 70's was the away end terracing made of wood. When we filled it up and everyone was bouncing it felt like it was about to collapse.
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First time I even opened this thread, far too much to read, but what I have read reminds me - reminds me of my days as a member of the Gateshead mad mob - fuck me man we had some truly crazy times following the lads. Lucky to be alive!
KTF, FTM, SMB
KTF, FTM, SMB
Had a few but I'll have a try best chants One night on the bus fri pick up London south coast hell on fists involved grown men argueing who had made the chant up .The Peterlee lads. We get locked up we don't care. We follow Sunderland everywhere wev'e been to West Ham and Chelsea we are the boys from Peterlee The Blackhall lads We get locked up and we don't care we follow Sunderland everywhere wev'e been to west ham and millwall we are the boys from Blackhall You couldn't make it up The thing was at the time 70's loads of villages together but you couldn't go to another village for a drink without getting a good beating .The thing that brought us together was the love for SAFC brought everyone together and friendships that will last a lifetime
mobilityscooter
Midfield
That still gets some air time today
T_Bone
Striker
That's Yackers for ye, thick as mince, mind they knew how to run fast, especially at Crimdon, on a Sunday afternoon, in a Northerly direction.
Monkey hanger you know you couldn't get any further than crimdon FACT
T_Bone
Striker
Why would we want to ? All we could see was the soles of your " Sunny San Sandals" as you ran for the Rocks.
Oh how we laughed.
We had our ropes but you were too fast for us.
Anyway enough of this, sorry for going off topic.
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