Thread For The Over 40's Only

[humbug]

i can honestly say that in all my years of going away ive never been involved in any bother. its never interested me tbh.
i used to travel on the wingate bus and have some great memories. we had a great time going to the away games. used to always stop at a club near doncaster if we'd played in the south.
it was a very well ran branch (thanks to mick and dave). we were usually the first bus at wherever we were playing and would often be booked into a club/pub. just a bunch of lads looking for a good day out on the beer with a match thrown in.

 

[paddylives]

Soz if said before but much to read!! I was at Man city in the '73 cup run. I remember getting pelted with bottles and bricks as we went through Leeds station on the way, then little arseholes trting to 'direct' us to the ground as we came out of the station. I got separated from my brother and friends and somehow joined a mass of Man u supporters singing 'Sunderland United' cos their tie with (I think) Port Vale was called off so they came to Maine Road...chants of 'you'll never take the Kippax' , replies of 'who f*cking wants it, it's full of sh*t?' and some old cow ringing a bell..my memory may be coloured with age but I also remember being stuck with a busload of disgruntled city supporters going back to the station after the game and faking a really good manc accent somehow when asked for me fare. Then I'm sure, really sure, somone was stabbed in the queue for the train. Got bollocked off me mum when i got home for losing me older brother....typical...Went to the replay, bell ringing cow was there again and Vic curved his goal towards me in the Fulwell...i just remember it was like slow motion....it's going in, it's going in....Vic Halom, Vic Halom, Vic Halom, la-la-la-la-la-la! mint! Oh, and great song about Franny Lee, based on wear-wear-wear-side, that went whe-oh-whe-oh whe-is that? (repeat) then; Fat little c*nt ower there....happy days!

 

[Sydneymackem]

i can honestly say that in all my years of going away ive never been involved in any bother. its never interested me tbh.

It never interested me either but sometimes bother comes to you, especially in the 70's and there's no escape, as many on this thread have recalled.

 

[Maximus]

who was the lad who had no teeth? He used to go everywhere with SAFC late 70's early 80's, always wore a sheepskin, seemingly no matter what the weather was. He was late 30's then so he's probably well into his 60's now.

Jeez I remember him - the sheepskin coat done it! - saying that, over the years I've met a load of lads who answered to the name of "Celtic" just cos they always wore hoops/Bhoys scarf..

 

[b1gals]

i can honestly say that in all my years of going away ive never been involved in any bother. its never interested me tbh.

It never interested me either but sometimes bother comes to you, especially in the 70's and there's no escape, as many on this thread have recalled.

I'll second that.:-(

 

[THEBLUEBELL]

Jeez I remember him - the sheepskin coat done it! - saying that, over the years I've met a load of lads who answered to the name of "Celtic" just cos they always wore hoops/Bhoys scarf..

Pit lad,last time i seen him he was in his mid 40s in about 1993 and he had just put some smug mag on his arse.

 

[Maximus]

Middlesbrough are clueless. We played them midweek circa 1990 or so at home and their lads piled off their train at Seaham thinking it was Seaburn. They had a canny walk.

Remember that anarl. Thick as shit they might be but some of the baddest "lads" out there. Probably one of the worst places to visit. Even in the sanitised premier league you hear of people getting slapped in and out of the ground at Boro.

A boro supporter had been killed week or so earlier and there was a big stayaway backlash iirc.. that said anyone remember that boro supporter doing all the disco moves while coins rained down on him?

Was that in the clock stand paddock circa 1980? - I remember a clown there and the Boro fans singing "You get a boot wrapped 'round your head, say a boot wrapped 'round your head" to the "Oops upside your head" tune around at the time (Gap Band?)

Scots fellow? John Cairns - liked a drink if ALS was to be believed!!

Aye - great times down at Pompey with the likes of Cairnsy and Charles Harrison of Metro - tremendous lol...Never mind ALS - them lads liked to drink almost as much as us!

Midnight from the Wheatsheaf Friday, pissed onto the coach, then sneak a few on the bus and booted out at Portsmouth Harbour or Southampton at 8am and back on the drink. Amazing we survived really.

Great thread lads,

Im under 40 and under 16 stone but Im still gonna add a few bits aswell.

Having ford Escorts driven around the perimeter at Roker.
Proper Bovril with me 10p mix up.
The minute club shop at roker park.
Sunderland fans nicking a basketball from some black lads near Maine Road, with the black lads calling them 'white bastards' and other stuff.
Roker Rookie 50p in vouchers
Metal fences at Roker for nee reason
That geet big oil rig whih was in Roker Harbour for years, better than watchin the footy when in the Fulwell.
Wincey Willis scoring for Hartlepool in the daft cup.
St James 26th May 1990, getting dropped off at Usworth on the safcsa bus, straight into a taxi full of mags, first time I heard my fatha swear!
Buying cans through the letterbox of the Greyhound at Wemberlee 85 as all pubs were shut.

Great memories, surely somebody on here went to Lisbon in 73?

Me fatha went to Budapest when it was behind the iron curtain in the first round but never went to Lisbon. Am still jealous I never got to watch us in Europe

 

[the streaker]

OI keep the politics off this thread!

Bob Murray is as much to blame for Hillsborough and Heysel and its a joke anybody brought a politician and starting blaming them in the first place..very very cheap points scoring..

However you are correct in what you say here so I may prune the thread before it gets to be kept for posterity........

Gold here it comes but lets give it a day or so before it probably runs its natural course............

 

[Maximus]

Derra derra derra derra derrerra de de derrrr. Anyone else used to chant that on the bus, if you won like. Otherwise it was utter silence

- Love it!!!!........we all did

 

[aeshna]

i can honestly say that in all my years of going away ive never been involved in any bother. its never interested me tbh.i used to travel on the wingate bus and have some great memories. we had a great time going to the away games. used to always stop at a club near doncaster if we'd played in the south.
it was a very well ran branch (thanks to mick and dave). we were usually the first bus at wherever we were playing and would often be booked into a club/pub. just a bunch of lads looking for a good day out on the beer with a match thrown in.

Me neither but them at Cardiff, Newcastle (New Years Day78?) and Leeds, to name the worst three, don't think like us.

 

[consettsafc]

I remember Knickers from CLS going to Southampton. On the train on the way back he didnt have a ticket and waited for someone to go to the toilets. when they went he knocked on the door and asked for their ticket ie "tickets please". They passed it under the toiler door and he fucked off.

Now that is a blast from the past. if he is still alive what is he up to now? I used to love going to Chester magistrates when he was up in front of the beak. There was one occaision when one of the magistrates tallied up his fines and told him he could have travelled round the world twice first class.

 

[The Lambton Worm]

Can remember the Chelsea fans who nicked a polis van from Wheatsheaf polis station in 1980. Hell on that day as it was payback time for what happened down there in the first match of the season.

Man U in 85 when the coppers got a plastering for keeping us in after the game. Someone opened the exits and everyone piled forward. One of the lads in our van went down and a few others went down with him including myself. Was only trapped from my waist down but was shitting myself as I kept on getting kicked in the head by people who were trying to get over the pile of bodies. Eventually got pulled out by some lad who promptly turned round and decked the nearest copper. The lad who was on the bottom couldn't move his arms when he eventually got free but it was funny as fuck when we stopped at a service station and his brother was spoon feeding him!

Went to Villa when they paraded the European Cup before the game. We were getting beat 1-0 at half time and fearing another drubbing like the season before (4-0) I fucked off back to the van. Stopped at Ashby de la Zouch on the way back and got escorted out by the polis even though the driver could hardly stand let alone drive. Broke down at RAF Dishforth and while waiting for the AA we saw a load of Mods in the distance heading our way. A few of us hid in the grass on the central reservation and when they got alongside we all jumped up and pretended to shoot them. A couple of them even fell off their scooters with shock.

Man City in the League Cup. After we'd negotiated the 'death run' and got back to our buses, every single person and bus was searched as someone had been stabbed. The local plod citing Jack The Ripper as the reason for the searches.

Any away game during the miners strike!

 

[Billy Fish]

Even after the game as we were waiting to get out of the ground, there were bricks & bottles raining down onto us from the Boro fans outside, and when the gates eventually opened to let us all out, there was a huge roar from our lot, who then charged out into the streets around the ground where once again there were mass brawls and hardly anyone was on the buses that were waiting to take us back to the station, coz it seemed like everyone was fighting or being arrested
.

Could never understand the logic of that at Ayresome Park. The Police would keep us penned in for over an hour "for our own safety" then let it be open season for their shitheads outside to chuck all sorts over the wall without moving them on.
That particular match was especially bad and alot of ours were badly cut whilst stuck inside the ground, it was no wonder hell let loose when they opened the gates. The coppers had a lot to answer for in those days, they definately antagonised the situation most of the time.

That was also the match when Joe Bolton got a red for butting their man, didn't even wait for the ref to show him the card, just put the nut on him and walked off down the tunnel

 

[Deleted member 2014]

Could never understand the logic of that at Ayresome Park. The Police would keep us penned in for over an hour "for our own safety" then let it be open season for their shitheads outside to chuck all sorts over the wall without moving them on.
That particular match was especially bad and alot of ours were badly cut whilst stuck inside the ground, it was no wonder hell let loose when they opened the gates. The coppers had a lot to answer for in those days, they definately antagonised the situation most of the time.

That was also the match when Joe Bolton got a red for butting their man, didn't even wait for the ref to show him the card, just put the nut on him and walked off down the tunnel

Aye he knacked Terry Cochrane and just walked straight down the tunnel, which just added to the aggro going on throughout the whole day

 

[24/02/79]

Any away game during the miners strike!

Yes, got stopped going to West Brom, Easter 1985.

 

[Deleted member 2014]

Me neither but them at Cardiff, Newcastle (New Years Day78?) and Leeds, to name the worst three, don't think like us.

Cardiff was mental

I was there that day in 1980 - an absolutely incredible turnout from us lot
"Geno" by Dexy's Midnight Runners, was no1 in the charts at that time and is one of my all time fave choons, and every time I hear it, it takes me back to Ninian Park at Cardiff when Sunderland played them in 1980 in our penultimate game of a successful promotion campaign. (We were promoted in our last game, in 2nd place after just missing out the previous year)
There was at least 12,000 Sunderland fans at Cardiff that day and the atmosphere at the game was fantastic, our coach windows were smashed by bricks that were thrown by Cardiff fans as we got near the ground and I got into the game for free when the Police opened the emergency exits to let us in to ease the congestion outside.
I eventually made my way to the top and back of the terrace and was sitting on top of the back wall with a huge drop from the top to the ground below (a bit like our old Roker End).
"Geno" was at No 1 in the charts at the time and when the song was played over the tannoy before the game, "Geno, Geno, Geno, Geno" was chanted by the thousands of Sunderland fans who were singing along to the intro of the song.
Always sends a shiver of nostalgia down my spine whenever I hear the song.

We drew the game 1-1 (Pop Robson scored for us and Jeff Clarke was stretchered off with a bad injury after colliding with Joe Hinnigan iirc)

 

[SAFCOldie]

i can honestly say that in all my years of going away ive never been involved in any bother. its never interested me tbh.
i used to travel on the wingate bus and have some great memories. we had a great time going to the away games. used to always stop at a club near doncaster if we'd played in the south.
it was a very well ran branch (thanks to mick and dave). we were usually the first bus at wherever we were playing and would often be booked into a club/pub. just a bunch of lads looking for a good day out on the beer with a match thrown in.

I use to go with a similar branch. Always seemed to know some geezer with a pub & we usualy ended up at Doncaster/Leeds suburb coming back, Village in Derbyshire on the way there. How the hell we never got battered I do not know, use to take some liberties with the singing etc in proper Leeds heartland.

Remember one time down Norwich, start of seaosn absolutely red hot. We got there 8ish in the morning and the branch had the usual contact at some boozer in a Norfolk village. Absolutely wrecked we were and I think the coppers must have been cracking down as 3 or 4 lads off the bus were nicked at the match just for being pissed. I remember we had to decide, on the escort out, whether to come back for them but coppers said it would be morning before they were released and besides we were getting escorted miles away in any case. Plans were discusssed, but we decided to leave them behind enemy lines. Next match I was told one lad had been mugged within minutes of his release from the cells, had his trainers snatched & had to hitch hike all the way home from Norwich, with various truckers, in his bare feet

 

[24/02/79]

Does anyone remember the two or three years when Peter Sutcliffe was at large, and SAFC away games seemed to spookily coincide sometimes with another victim being found. Away games at Oldham and Leeds spring to mind.

With the Wearside Jack tape coming out as well, there was a genuine suspicion that the Yorkshire Ripper was a Sunderland fan, and I believe it was a serious line of enquiry for the police at that time.

 

[Billy Fish]

Any away game during the miners strike!

I was at Uni in Nottingham at the time and went up to see Villa at Sheffield with some mates in a knackered old Austin Princess. On the way back we stopped off at the Services just south of Sheffield and as we pulled in the car was penned in by four cop cars (one front and back and one each side all giving it the blues and two's.) Their were five of us in the car and each of us was manhandled out by 2 or 3 coppers apiece and pulled to separate areas.
My Copper say to me "Been to the football Son" ...Me in broad NE accent..."Aye"
"Where've you been"
"Sheffield"
"Who've you been to see"
"Villa"
"Where're you going now"
"Nottingham"
"Where're you from"
"Sun'lan"
"You taking the piss son..."

They had a conflab and discovered they had a Villa fan and Mancunian two lads from Sunderland and a lad who didn't know why he was there but everyone else was going so he went as well!!
It turned out that the Mags were due back from a match down south and West Ham were coming down from Leeds and a meeting had been "arranged" at this services so they were on the look out for any likely suspects and a bunch of pissed up students in an Austin Princess must of fitted the bill perfectly. They let us on our way but not before giving the two of us from Sunerland some grief about the Strike. Tossers.

 

[Poledancer]

Does anyone remember the two or three years when Peter Sutcliffe was at large, and SAFC away games seemed to spookily coincide sometimes with another victim being found. Away games at Oldham and Leeds spring to mind.

With the Wearside Jack tape coming out as well, there was a genuine suspicion that the Yorkshire Ripper was a Sunderland fan, and I believe it was a serious line of enquiry for the police at that time.

I was livin with ower lass In Hytlon Castle and was subjected to 4 hrs interogation off the OB

" I have the utmost repsect for you George..."