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Legends Way fan vote: choose the 14 legends

HarrogateMackem said:
I wish they hadn't done a fan vote in all honesty and let Rob Mason choose! We're no doubt going to see the classic recency bias and the fact people don't know a lot about our history understandably.
I really hope we can celebrate our grand history, and shout about stuff beyond '73! Some names for people to consider (imo).
  1. Raich Carter is regarded as the greatest player ever to play for our fantastic team. A massively gifted inside forward who captained the club to the 1936 league title and the 1937 FA Cup. A local lad too.
  2. Len Shackleton, "the Clown Prince of Football," was a maverick entertainer who dazzled crowds at Roker Park with outrageous skill and an maveric streak that made him a fans' favourite but kept him on the wrong side of the football establishment, earning him far fewer England caps than he deserved
  3. Ted Doig was a Scottish goalkeeper who joined Sunderland in 1890 and spent 14 years at the club, winning the league title and establishing himself as one of the finest keepers of the Victorian era.
  4. Johnny Campbell, another Scot, was a prolific striker during the "Team of All the Talents" period in the 1890s when Sunderland won three league championships in four years, a dominance that has never really been matched.
  5. Charlie Buchan arrived in 1911 and went on to score 224 goals for the club across 16 years, making him one of the greatest forwards in English football before the Second World War
  6. Bobby Gurney holds the club's all-time scoring record with 228 goals between 1925 and 1939, and was the spearhead of the 1936 championship and 1937 FA Cup winning sides.
  7. George Holley was a skillful inside forward who scored over 150 goals in the decade before the First World War, won 10 England caps, and is probably the most unjustly forgotten great player in Sunderland's history imo.
  8. James Allan, founded the club in 1879 as a schoolteacher, making him the reason any of this exists at all.

I imagine Quinny is in with a shout, and Gary Bennett and Super Kev - as they're within our lifetime. And Hurley is obviously amazing too - but he does have the gates?
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Great post this.

It does my nut the fact we big up one cup over a time period where we were arguable the biggest club in the world.
 

Not sure I can put Murray in as the stadium is really his legacy. Some great names from the early history there but it would be nice to honour people from the recent past as well.

Doig
Holley
Buchan
Halliday
Gurney
Carter
Anderson
Hurley
Ashurst
Kerr
Porterfield
Ball
Phillips
Quinn

Pressed submit and forgot Shack. Bugger.
 
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Tried to mix mine up with old and new which is how it should be to reflect the different generations imo.

1. James Allan
2. Len Shackleton
3. Bob Murray
4. Nial Quinn
5. Kevin Phillips
6. Gary Bennett
7. Kevin Ball
8. Charlie Buchan
9. Bobby Gurney
10. Len Ashurst
11. Gary Rowell
12. Raich Carter

forgot the last 2 :lol:
 
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