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Arthur Reid said:
I'm pretty sure someone thumped Palace fan and 'comedian' Roy Hudd after the game when he was larging it.....
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I think it was The Big Match produced an annual that had a day with the Palace fans at SAFC. It recounted the tale of the Cockney getting battered. TBF getting battered was an occupational hazrd coming to SAFc in those days.
 
My Boy Harry said:
:lol:

i never knew them very well but the likes of slosher, Berti, Armsy and Lammer became legends. My ex BIL knew them all well. All ex Vauxies IIRC.

We went to Stoke with them once - chaos.
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Was the Stoke game the FA Cup tie the same day that the scum were at Bolton?

If so I was in the Services on either the M6 or the M62, when the Vauxies walked in and the mags all departed post haste - leaving meals half eaten.....
 
My Boy Harry said:
:lol:

i never knew them very well but the likes of slosher, Berti, Armsy and Lammer became legends. My ex BIL knew them all well. All ex Vauxies IIRC.

We went to Stoke with them once - chaos.
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Billingsgate market every London Village trip
6 30 am on the piss

Vauxs lads are due another re union at the Ashbrooke soon
 
Confucius said:
OK Fred, now you're the Ayatollah. Dirty twat from Peterlee with his egg sandwiches

George Foster always used to carry his certificate around proving he'd had the snip. The dirty get

You can also remember the number of roundabouts on the A1 (loads of the bastards) and them gradually decreasing year by year
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3 to start with as I remember - 1 at Dishforth (cant remember the others) then as you say it was whittled away to zero.
 
rentaghost said:
I remember a period of my life in my 20s when I used to attend every home game (still do) and most away games - (about 1983 - 1996) During this period I was so fiercely passionate about the club / its support and everthing about it. I was critical of people who didnt go without fully understanding the reasons why. Then i got married had kids and away games slowed to a trickle - (WHED and co it may well happen to you!!)

I loved that period of my life supporting Sunderland, the 3rd division, the abject misery of relegations, nearly getting killed at York Hillsborough style. The bizzare, unbelievable scenes at Stamford Bridge when Westy scored with a police horse chasing a fan across the penalty area. In 1976/77 my first 100% home attendance year the relegation via Jimmy Hill after beating Boro, West Brom and West Ham 4-0, 6-1 and 6-0. Seeing Sunderland a number of times at Wembley and losing - the 1985 Milk Cup final, the play off final, the 1992 FA Cup final, the mercantile credit classic competition where we lost on penalties to Wigan at Wembley and of course the play offs v Charlton.

Perhaps some of our younger supporters can understand why many of the older supporters are so cynical - when everything seems OK you always know thers something to deflate you around the corner :-(

Nontheless coping in adversity is what being a Sunderland fan is all about :)
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thanks for that old timer, tears in my eyes now ya git,
first game 1963 beat southampton 3-0, then rotherham 4-0 (easy game this)
 
Being on the pitch & celebrating at Wrexham in 1979, thinking we'd won promotion, only for the gadgy on the P.A to announce that Brendan O' Callaghan had scored a last minute winner for Stoke City, at Notts County, thus ensuring they won promotion instead of us, was devastating :cry:
 
Tinny pissing off to that there London to sweep the streets. He came back for a visit and taught every fucker how to brush properly. "Never brush towards you, always brush away. That way you don't get covered". He was our very own Trigger
 
rentaghost said:
I remember a period of my life in my 20s when I used to attend every home game (still do) and most away games - (about 1983 - 1996) During this period I was so fiercely passionate about the club / its support and everthing about it. I was critical of people who didnt go without fully understanding the reasons why. Then i got married had kids and away games slowed to a trickle - (WHED and co it may well happen to you!!)

I loved that period of my life supporting Sunderland, the 3rd division, the abject misery of relegations, nearly getting killed at York Hillsborough style. The bizzare, unbelievable scenes at Stamford Bridge when Westy scored with a police horse chasing a fan across the penalty area. In 1976/77 my first 100% home attendance year the relegation via Jimmy Hill after beating Boro, West Brom and West Ham 4-0, 6-1 and 6-0. Seeing Sunderland a number of times at Wembley and losing - the 1985 Milk Cup final, the play off final, the 1992 FA Cup final, the mercantile credit classic competition where we lost on penalties to Wigan at Wembley and of course the play offs v Charlton.

Perhaps some of our younger supporters can understand why many of the older supporters are so cynical - when everything seems OK you always know thers something to deflate you around the corner :-(

Nontheless coping in adversity is what being a Sunderland fan is all about :)
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Yes I remember that well. I climbed the perimeter fence to escape the crush and loads of coppers were trying to push us back.

The press reported that we had been rioting. It was even lead story on national news that night.

It could so easily have been a disaster like Hillsborough.

Pretty sure it was caused when the police decided to let ticketless fans in.
 
Confucius said:
Bristol Rovers and the motorway above your f***ing head
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We got a free trip to BR having been left behind at Millwall :mad: the old Eastville - rough as fuck. after the gme there was a pitched battle on wasteground with bricks, bits of piping and bottles etc. being hoyed about.

all in a days work in those days. :-D
 
How's about that wonderful period of football under Jimmy Adamson. He unleashed Arnott, Rowell and Elliott onto an unsuspecting first division and we saw some of the most incisive, flowing football I have ever seen from a Sunderland side.

Some terrific memories of Roker Park. The "Tina" chant at Shilton, "Who's up Mrs Brown" at Tommy Doc. Manchester City, the old place jumping to the sound of Blaydon Races and Rodney "Shithouse" Marsh. The Spurs Cup game, the Manchester United replay, great football, awesome crowds and the rolling thunder of the Roker Roar in all it's glory. Hammering Derby 3-0 in the League Cup (I think) replay and the stitch up down at Hull when we played Leeds, cheating bastards. Even further back, George Mulhall powering down the wing for us. Johnny Crossan slotting goals home from all angles. The box of tricks known as Geordie Herd, Harry Hooper, Amby Fogarty, Brian Clough, Stan Anderson and of course the magnificent King Charlie. How I miss the old place.
 
Confucius said:
Bristol Rovers and the motorway above your f***ing head
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Went to Eastville in the 70's must have been 74-75 not long after the St Pauls riots.

The motorway behind was either being built or having some works done on it as bricks and stones were being lobbed at us from outside the ground during and after the game.

At the end of the game a bit of concrete came in and some poor bugger got hit on the head and knocked unconscious.

It had been another 12 midnight kick off from Dundas Street, so it had been a long day.

We finally got out of Bristol and I managed to get to sleep pretty easily. Only to be awoken by cries of anguish as the bus had caught fire. When I opened my eyes there were flames licking the side of the bloody bus!! There was chaos on the bus as everyone tried to get off - none of this orderly evacuation business! Don't panic.....

The driver put the fire out himself, but we were faced with a 2 hour wait while a replacement bus came from Bartons in Nottingham!!

Naturally we nipped over the field until we came to a village with a pub..... :)
 
---Nemo--- said:
How's about that wonderful period of football under Jimmy Adamson. He unleashed Arnott, Rowell and Elliott onto an unsuspecting first division and we saw some of the most incisive, flowing football I have ever seen from a Sunderland side. .
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I remember 76/77 .

We went to Leicester and got beaten 0 v 1 IIRC. joe bolton hit the post. there was only about 500 SAFC fans there that day but what a racket/nuisance they made themselves.

I'm sure that at least 1 of the 3 made their debuts that day.

The rest of that season was magnificent. Some legendary matches at the likes of Man City, Norwich and Everton as well as home games against the likes of WHU and WBA. The Middlesbrough 4 v 0 hammering was as good as I've seen from an SAFC side. Brilliant.
 
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stubber said:
Yeah I saw it. We must know each other, like. Happy, happy dys.
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we have probably all see each other at some service station or other over the years. I see lads now who i have never seen for years and can't even remember their names but the stories never change. happy days indeed
 
My first game was at home to Southampton 1968.
We lost 3 nowt.:oops:
 
malcsouthshields said:
Eastville another dodgey place as well
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What a shit hole of a ground that was

There was a cracking book about the Bristol Rovers Hoolies & music and trends of the early to mid 1970's, (unfortunately cannot remember the title) and the writer stated that Sunderland invaded their " Tote end" and couldn't be shifted by any force by Bristol Rovers hoolies - he mentioned about our lads being made from hardened rivvets from the shipyards or summat like that :lol:
 
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