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The Sunderland supporters branch trying to change the history of Athletic Bilbao

aupaalaves

aupaalaves

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Back in December, the Bilbao Black Cats got together with a Spanish journalist called Hadi Anani who was keen to get to know us not only for being an international branch in Spain but also to allow us to tell him why we think Sunderland is more involved with Athletic Bilbao's history than others such as Southampton.

This article has been published in Spanish national soccer magazine "Panenka"

To read it in English, click the article, click three dots top right, click translate and choose classes English.

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When you've finished with that article, move on to this one which suddenly makes the links to Athletic begin to make sense.

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To translate do the same as above, click article, three dots, translate and choose English.

Let us know what you think

Cheers
 

nhs99v said:
Withou reading the article, I visited their stadium a few years back and walked round the museum bit. I did this becuase of what I understood to be the links with them - there was absolutley no mention of us in the museum! :?:
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There should be or at least that's what their website says
Pint of efes said:
Best mates with the mags now apparently
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That was a contractual agreement because of the sportswear brand they both wear. They used it to remember the UEFA cup game in the 90s. That's about as far as it goes.

The new Athletic president and his board are trying to branch out and make links with other teams to promote their Athletic Bilbao playing philosophy.

I have it from a good source that they're aware of the Bilbao Black Cats presence and are looking into doing something in the future.
 
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aupaalaves said:
Back in December, the Bilbao Black Cats got together with a Spanish journalist called Hadi Anani who was keen to get to know us not only for being an international branch in Spain but also to allow us to tell him why we think Sunderland is more involved with Athletic Bilbao's history than others such as Southampton.

This article has been published in Spanish national soccer magazine "Panenka"

To read it in English, click the article, click three dots top right, click translate and choose classes English.

You must be logged on to see external links

When you've finished with that article, move on to this one which suddenly makes the links to Athletic begin to make sense.

You must be logged on to see external links

To translate do the same as above, click article, three dots, translate and choose English.

Let us know what you think

Cheers
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Oso ona, lan ona!
 
nhs99v said:
Withou reading the article, I visited their stadium a few years back and walked round the museum bit. I did this becuase of what I understood to be the links with them - there was absolutley no mention of us in the museum! :?:
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My dad used to run safcs website freelance in the 1990s to 2002 just after I was born

He told me that Micky gray was going to get a testimonial and they had Sunderland lined up to play Bilbao at the sol

The only problem wsd that when safc approached Bilbao about the game and the links Bilbao had no knowledge of safc in its founding history

Safc asked my dad to look into it and he could find no evidence of Bilbao links with wearside. Who Fred pentland was who was supposedly involved in this foundation is anyone’s guess and my dad reckons they got mixed up with a bloke who used to play for Middlesbrough who went on to be Bilbaos manager. He was called pentland

I note that no one on the telly now mentions Bilbao and safc if Bilbao are on the telly. Probably because every man and his dog has now looked into this link and found nothing
 
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