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kwillhen said:
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Also born in Felling, lived there all my life, always classed myself as a Geordie and always will but never a mag! Had a season ticket since my Fulwell end days in the 90's, Heworth to Seaburn on the train, the good old days, before the keeganights seemed to take the word Geordie for themselves f'kin idiots.
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Thives and conmen, led by Billy Bullshit, John Hall, posh pretendy Geordie sounding, ex Sunderland season ticket holding wanker
 

Ginger John said:
Sand dancer - grew up in Washington - now live in County Durham.

Great-grandfather supported the lads from day one. He took my Grandpa, who took my Dad, who took me and I take mine. Can't argue with hereditary conditions.
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From day 1 you will mean since the club was founded.
I know my grandad was life long fan (as was my dad) which covers practically all the last century, he was part of the largest ever crowd v Derby practically stood on the touch line .
I must ask my last remaining uncle if my great grandfathers were supporters
 
Chewit said:
From day 1 you will mean since the club was founded.
I know my grandad was life long fan (as was my dad) which covers practically all the last century, he was part of the largest ever crowd v Derby practically stood on the touch line .
I must ask my last remaining uncle if my great grandfathers were supporters
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I didn't know him as he was dead before I was born, but my Grandpa said he was going when Sunderland were founded. They lived south of the river. He was a miner and they were short of money so they walked to the match and back. There was a rowing boat that went across the river then, so my Grandpa liked the novelty of going in the boat! Grandpa started going when Charlie Buchan was playing towards the end of his career which I used to like hearing about.
 
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The Hunter said:
I'm a helluva North East mongrel. Father was a Cockney (Stoke Newington), my Mam was from Easington Colliery. I was born and raised in Seaham Harbour until the age of 10 - then we moved to Whitley Bay for three years, then to Lobley Hill, Gateshead...then Low Fell.
Went to college for a year in Darlington; moved to Halifax (two years) for my first job then returned to Gateshead to work on the Chronicle, then The Journal. Bought my first house in Newbottle. Then moved to Altrincham when I moved to The People in Manchester; on to New Malden, Kingston, when I switched to the Fleet Street office. Seven years later it was back to the North East for two years in Stocksfield before switching back to London - living in Swanley Village, near Dartford.
Then on to Crockenhill, Kent, and most recently the Isle of Wight.
Oh, before I forget, I'm planning my return "home" to County Durham. If anyone in the pub has ever asked me where I'm from, it's easy...Seaham Harbour. "Give me a boy till the agen of seven and I'll show you the man..." so said Aristotle.
Haway the lads!
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I think you will find that travellers aren’t normally welcomed on these forums ;)
 
Born in Castletown and moved to Preston 31 yers ago. I think living away from the area makes you even more interested in what’s going on within the club. Constantly reading the the forum and blogs to keep up to date.
 
Lord Potts said:
At the end of the day the very special thing about SAFC is that it is a Durham County team with a long long history of being supported by fans who travelled from the mining settlements at over Durham first to Roker Park in the old days and now the SOL. People who worked like Trojans during the week and to who a game of football helped them forget the hardships they endured. (A few of them would even bring their Mrs along as she could go shopping in Binns and then enjoy tea and a bun in Carricks while the match was on).

I have posted several times before that you young un's (most people under 50) haven't seen the amazing sight of the line of coaches on a match day that went from the bottom of Roker Avenue along the seafront and around Seaburn Rec. Coaches that brought fans to Sunderland from all over County Durham to the game. As a kid I used to love to read all the names of villages and towns where the coaches had come from Spennymoor, Bishop Auckland , Consett, Crook, Ferryhill and so on. It was a lexicon of County Durham and its people.

There are no outsiders when it comes the SAFC it now it extends to folk all over the UK and even beyond. Townies like me as just a bit luckier than the rest of you having been born in one of the friendliest towns on the planet.
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went as far as the new Derby
In my courtship days i used to take the economic to the harbour corner (bede st ? ) this is the sixties and there were United buses from Amble, Ashington and Alnmouth. Onthe oher side of the ground( wheatsheaf) there were a pile of Double Deckers from South Shields now there are none. The queues to stand in the roker end were right to the new Derby
 
Born in Grimsby and supported the lads because of my Dad, who is Hartlepool born and bred.

To say I got some abuse for supporting the lads in 90s Grimsby was an understatement but you endure. Life experience and all that. Moved up to the north east for uni in 1999 and had a season ticket throughout my time here. Now live in Leeds and get up when I can.

The unspoken bond between exiled Sunderland fans is class. In Grimsby there was a lad called Daz from Shields who lived on the same estate as me, stepped in a few times when I was getting grief. Always wondered if he gets on here.
 
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