Iconic SAFC Photos

Dadsarmy73

Winger
The thread about the Sunderland fan photo got me thinking about other iconic SAFC photos.

I’ll start, in a match against Bury at Roker Park on 26 December 1962, in icy conditions and torrential rain, Brian Clough was put through on goal and collided with the goalkeeper. Clough tore the medial and cruciate ligaments in his knee, an injury which in effect ended his playing career.

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The thread about the Sunderland fan photo got me thinking about other iconic SAFC photos.

I’ll start, in a match against Bury at Roker Park on 26 December 1962, in icy conditions and torrential rain, Brian Clough was put through on goal and collided with the goalkeeper. Clough tore the medial and cruciate ligaments in his knee, an injury which in effect ended his playing career.

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I was in the roker end that day. I remember clough going down and staying down which was not like him, then just putting up his arm for help. When the severity of his injury was announced there was hope he may return but sadly not to be. I'm sure that but for his injury we would have been promoted that season. He had scored 29 goals that season going into that fateful game, incredible!
 
The thread about the Sunderland fan photo got me thinking about other iconic SAFC photos.

I’ll start, in a match against Bury at Roker Park on 26 December 1962, in icy conditions and torrential rain, Brian Clough was put through on goal and collided with the goalkeeper. Clough tore the medial and cruciate ligaments in his knee, an injury which in effect ended his playing career.

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Aye. In the Clock Stand that day, a young nipper of 8. What could have been...………………..
 
I was in the roker end that day. I remember clough going down and staying down which was not like him, then just putting up his arm for help. When the severity of his injury was announced there was hope he may return but sadly not to be. I'm sure that but for his injury we would have been promoted that season. He had scored 29 goals that season going into that fateful game, incredible!

yea,i was in Roker as well that game,knew it was serious when Clough stayed down,he just wasn't that kind of bloke,i remember Harker standing over him mouthing off,later came out he was telling Clough to stop whinging or something along those lines,as for promotion,i think we'd have walked it
 
yea,i was in Roker as well that game,knew it was serious when Clough stayed down,he just wasn't that kind of bloke,i remember Harker standing over him mouthing off,later came out he was telling Clough to stop whinging or something along those lines,as for promotion,i think we'd have walked it

For some reason i thought it was Bob Stokoe who was giving Clough shit for that.
 
Despite never having seen him play he's amongst my favourite Sunderland players just off the back of the hours I'd listen to my Dad telling me how good he was.

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Ive seen little snippets on PATHE and the odd bit here and there. As much as he seems touted as on eof the greatest footballers of his age, it often these days only tends to be Sunderland fans who will attest to this. Even them up the road would have to admit it.

It will always be the King in his baseball boots for me
Baseball boots? :eek:
 
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