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FLATHEED said:
My first game was V Oldham in the F.A.cup 1976, ive still got the old broad sheet program. we won 2-0 in the roker end with my dad. if i was lucky would get a bovril and a pie at half time, it was class! as for your havva, mine was painted with 'judas priest' ha ha god i feel ancient! other memories include 'monkey boots' and my pride and joy my bright red 'oxfords'. good memories!
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was that the game when an oldham fan ran on the pitch just before kick off and place blue and white balloons on the centre spot? old bill hoyed him out. remember hitching back from carlisle early 80's got a lift from 2 lads from downhill who made us pelt knives and forks(pre stolen from a little chef) at random peope as we drove down westgate road,they joined in aswell mind
 


My Boy Harry said:
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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Aye, I remember that Leicester game. I'd just passed my driving test and it was the first game I drove to. Played well but got beat, and great atmosphere.

I could well be mistaken, but was the Boro 4-0 game not Arnott, Elliott and Rowell's debut?

---Nemo--- said:
I remember that Friday game but can't recall if it was the same period. Was that the game in which Holden scored for us?
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Aye, I think it was the first goal we'd scored for ten games IIRC.
 
Matt said:
Aye, I remember that Leicester game. I'd just passed my driving test and it was the first game I drove to. Played well but got beat, and great atmosphere.

I could well be mistaken, but was the Boro 4-0 game not Arnott, Elliott and Rowell's debut?
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Rowell made his debut in a 2nd division home win against Oxford in Dec 1975

Arnott & Elliott both made their debuts together in a F.A Cup 3rd round replay loss at Wrexham in Jan 1977
 
Confucius said:
Which Oxford game was it where we weren't happy and the ref took the players off the pitch. The daft cunts send Bob Moncur out to settle us down. "Fuck off you black and white bastard". Made it f***ing worse
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I think that was the same game where the legendary Sammy had a dump on the terracing cos he was too pissed to find the bogs :eek:

We were also having billiard balls hoyed at us by the Oxford fans to our right.
 
Confucius said:
The old fella around the corner used to take us in his Reliant Robin. He used to go to the Prince of Wales for a couple and leave us in the bastard car freezing
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The bloke who lived next door to us in Hedworth used to take us.....always remember the car would take till we got to Fulwell before the f***ing heating would work.:lol:
 
Anyone remember a game at Stoke when we took a short cut to the ground, we ended up going through a church grounds and wrecking a church fete or garden party or something?....cant remember when it was though.
 
85 Milk Cup Final. Heathrow Penta Hotel, playing football as jumbo jets landed 500 yards away

A disco in the hotel and the DJ finally gives in and plays "Nellie the Elephant" by the Toy Dolls. That was until Davy Dowell decided to fall onto all the disco equipment in his drunken haze and bring the shenanigans to an abrupt end
What a fella he was. Short lad with hair like an explosion in a mattress factory
 
Some great posts and great memories in here,The day when if you had a scrap at football and got pinched you would get a slap on your wrists and sent home.

Also when the coppers would take yer laces out of ya boots to stop you from kicking any one and checking for steel caps.Think the Newcastle coal board donkey jackets were the chosen style of the boys.
 
Bradford Bob said:
Remember that, I was there. About 10 of us from Gateshead and some lads from Jarra were drinking at the backend of a long narrow bar in the city centre before the match. We were standing next to the bogs and two lasses pushed passed us to get to them. Someone grabbed her arse and she yelled up the bar to her fella. At that point two f***ing gorrillas appeared and started punching everyone insight. We all piled in, tables and glasses smashed, and got a nice fat lip to take to the match with me.:-D
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Aye, that was us lot, we had to travel with the Jarra lads to them long distance matches. I remember getting out onto the pavement still drinking my pint with the keystone cops running round twatting anyone that moved :lol:
 
THEBLUEBELL said:
Some great posts and great memories in here,The day when if you had a scrap at football and got pinched you would get a slap on your wrists and sent home.

Also when the coppers would take yer laces out of ya boots to stop you from kicking any one and checking for steel caps.Think the Newcastle coal board donkey jackets were the chosen style of the boys.
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NCB - National Coal Board.
 
Originally Posted by Arthur Reid
I'm pretty sure someone thumped Palace fan and 'comedian' Roy Hudd after the game when he was larging it.....




Libertine said:
Lad called Stevie from Doxy Park IIRC. Can't for the life of me remember his second name but can picture him as clear as day.
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Stevie Douglas was his name.
 
Parkmaverick said:
Somtime had comedians on, saw Douggie Small in there before a Manure game
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if it's the same one as im thinking of, the strippers never turned up:cry:
i got to the ground and lasted 10 minutes before being locked up, the man u fans were spitting at us from the clock stand seats, being hammered the next thing i remember was being in the back of a paddy wagon and carted off to gillbridge along with loads of other safc fans. went to a special court sitting on the monday and remember thinking it was funny when the judge said "it is alledged that you said 'fuck off you dirty manchester bastards'". strange to hear a person like a judge swear, and it was a woman anarl. didn't think it was funny when she then said 'you are to be fined £145 plus £25 costs:eek:
anyway, we drew 0-0 and got beat down there.
 
Confucius said:
85 Milk Cup Final. Heathrow Penta Hotel, playing football as jumbo jets landed 500 yards away

A disco in the hotel and the DJ finally gives in and plays "Nellie the Elephant" by the Toy Dolls. That was until Davy Dowell decided to fall onto all the disco equipment in his drunken haze and bring the shenanigans to an abrupt end
What a fella he was. Short lad with hair like an explosion in a mattress factory
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Davy Dowell, now there's a name from the past.

85 MCF we went with the Sacriston lads. On the way down we stopped off the M1 at Leicester, a WMC about a mile or so from the motorway. LCFC were playing WHU IIRC and there were some Cockneys in the place when we arrived.

It was like the Cantina star wars scene with the lads form Sacriston like, high as kites, flags up on the walls, sing song etc. Near London the bus broke down, smoke spissing out of the bottom grates inside the bus. I remember an empty coach passing us as we hitched it the rest of the way and we all jumped on. Luggage arrived later.

Crazy on the Saturday night in London. Saw an SAFc lad get stabbed in the neck at Leicester Sq Tube station, there was a right old barny at the end of the tube line with some Chelsea lads and one of the lads who was with us from Fram got lifted.

We stayed somewhere near Mill Hill way at a service station, if I have my geography right and the police were called late on when one of the lads fell through a glass coffee table in the bar area.

There were too many lads booked into the room next to us so one of them slept in the bath. :roll:

As for the match? Rank bad. :mad:
 
Confucius said:
85 Milk Cup Final. Heathrow Penta Hotel, playing football as jumbo jets landed 500 yards away

A disco in the hotel and the DJ finally gives in and plays "Nellie the Elephant" by the Toy Dolls. That was until Davy Dowell decided to fall onto all the disco equipment in his drunken haze and bring the shenanigans to an abrupt end
What a fella he was. Short lad with hair like an explosion in a mattress factory
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A top pal of mine, and a smashing lad & supporter too - he's been to thousands of games over the years and never seeks to be in the headlines for his unstinting support (he certainly puts many of the so called uber's in the shade)
Davy's always on the pre season foreign trips and usually joins up with our crowd for the tours :cool:
Got some great stories of the times on the pre seasons of past years when Davy's been in our crowd. :lol:
 
My Boy Harry said:
Crazy on the Saturday night in London. Saw an SAFc lad get stabbed in the neck at Leicester Sq Tube station, there was a right old barny at the end of the tube line with some Chelsea lads and one of the lads who was with us from Fram got lifted.
:mad:
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Yes the only Sunderland supporter arrested that weekend and posts on this board. May have even posted on the thread.:neutral:

At the time I went with most of the lads from Fram on that bus but because of work we travelled down on the Sunday morning.
 
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My Boy Harry said:
We stayed somewhere near Mill Hill way at a service station, if I have my geography right and the police were called late on when one of the lads fell through a glass coffee table in the bar area.

. :mad:
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We stayed at a hotel at Scratchwood services, right at the end of the M1.
50 odd of us from Gateshead. The bus driver took us into London on the night and brought us back at midnight. Remember the coppers coming in to the hotel bar at 3 a.m. because nee one would go to bed and it was getting a bit naughty. They eventually cleared the bar, but we were all back downstairs at 6 a.m. for 'breakfast':-D
 
Parkmaverick said:
Yes the only Sunderland supporter arrested that weekend and posts on this board. May have even posted on the thread.

At the time I went with most of the lads from Fram on that bus but because of work we travelled down on the Sunday morning.
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I think the official total was around 6 or 7 as another lad we knew got lifted - Speed from CLS.

Funnily enough I didnt really know the lad from Fram (Postman I believe) but in 2000 or so Bondy (Robin Bond) invited me to Fram Club for a football quiz and whilst relating the tale of 85 to someone one of the lads laughed and called the lad who got arrested over.

Small world.

Bradford Bob said:
We stayed at a hotel at Scratchwood services, right at the end of the M1.
50 odd of us from Gateshead. The bus driver took us into London on the night and brought us back at midnight. Remember the coppers coming in to the hotel bar at 3 a.m. because nee one would go to bed and it was getting a bit naughty. They eventually cleared the bar, but we were all back downstairs at 6 a.m. for 'breakfast':-D
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I'm sure we were in the same one. Scratchwood/Mill Hill = same service station?
 
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