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stephen cartwright said:
i have happy memories of taking 24 hours to go to mansfield and back in a mini

won 4-0 and had to sit behind bertschin, stuff two pies down in a british allcomers record

went to hull on a new years day, kick off approx 1045 for some unknown reason, got beat 3-2 and had a goal disallowed, despite the ball hitting the side netting and marks on the pitch showing the player was over the line, when he cleared it
the return from the above was made better when news of steve bull scoring 4 at st james park to stuff them

went to bradford for another 1-0 defeat, where the stdium clock had 86 mins on it but the fial whistle went. sure the ball didnt cross the line as well

went to liverpool, in a parka, on the day stanley cummins bulletted one into the top corner and clinched a 1-0 win. souness hit the bar from 30 yards despite the game supposedly being fixed to keep safc up by bob paisley
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I'm not so sure the kick off was as early as you say, SC, but I was at the the game and Gordon Armstrong missed a penna iirc
After the game we had a couple of pints in Hull, and as we were making our way home, we noticed the SAFC bus parked up at a hotel/pub/restaurant, so we called in and Denis Smith, Viv Busby and all the players were in there having a post match drink. They each shook our hands, and wished us all the best, and invited us to join them for a few drinks (which Denis Smith very kindly added onto his bill)
I remember John Kay was trollied and and was great craic, and smoking my mates tabs and drinking his beer too :lol:
Gordon Armstrong was very subdued and sat very quietly away from those who were carrying on and having a good time with a few pints, so my drunken mate didn't exactly cheer him up when he staggered over and introduced himself by saying "Ow Gordon, that penalty was f***ing shite marra" :eek:
After that New Years Day defeat at Hull, we were 3rd in the table (and would eventually finish 6th and controversially be promoted after Swindons cheating) - and I said to Denis Smith that we were nailed on certs for promotion, and this defeat was just a blip, and we'd be in the top league the following season.
He shook my hand firmly (nearly crushed the fucker) and replied, "You're dead right son, we're going up" :cool:
The rest is now history, - we beat the scum in the play offs, and despite losing at Wembley, to Swindle Town, we were promoted to the top division coz of Swindon's financial irregularities (cheating) :-D
 
stephen cartwright said:
sure it was souness :lol::lol:

whoever it was, it was one hell of a shot, that ruled out any slaver about the game being fixed for a safc win

sure it was at the kop end
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Aye, at the opposite end to us - we were in the Anfield Road end of the ground
 
Just thought I'd add my two pennorth!!

As well as some of the exploits and memories already mentioned a couple from me.

First game of the season, think it was 75/6 (?), when we played Chelsea and beat them 2-1. Two things stick in my mind from that day...Denis Longhorn scoring a screamer and seeing the biggest bloke I'd ever seen...a Chelsea skinhead in the Roker who came up the stairs wielding a chain looked like a massive version of Errol Brown from Hot Chocolate....could well be the first black 'fan' I ever saw at Roker Park!!!

Secondly for the 4-1 at The Landfill, cowering in the doorway of Stan Seymour Sports as hundreds of Mags went running up the street (Grainger Street?). Then after the game taunting the Mag Scum as we drove out of the city and laughing as we saw them hoying their scarves off the Tyne Bridge.

And, to this day, my favourite away trips remain the Cardiff and Wrexham days...does my memory play trciks or did we have 3/4 of the Racecourse Ground that day?
 
Porridge said:
Just thought I'd add my two pennorth!!

As well as some of the exploits and memories already mentioned a couple from me.

First game of the season, think it was 75/6 (?), when we played Chelsea and beat them 2-1. Two things stick in my mind from that day...Denis Longhorn scoring a screamer and seeing the biggest bloke I'd ever seen...a Chelsea skinhead in the Roker who came up the stairs wielding a chain looked like a massive version of Errol Brown from Hot Chocolate....could well be the first black 'fan' I ever saw at Roker Park!!!

Secondly for the 4-1 at The Landfill, cowering in the doorway of Stan Seymour Sports as hundreds of Mags went running up the street (Grainger Street?). Then after the game taunting the Mag Scum as we drove out of the city and laughing as we saw them hoying their scarves off the Tyne Bridge.

And, to this day, my favourite away trips remain the Cardiff and Wrexham days...does my memory play trciks or did we have 3/4 of the Racecourse Ground that day?
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I think you're right - we had 2 sides of the ground + 1 end (I was on the fence right behind our goal when Rostron & Brown scored our 2 goals)
If you ever get the chance to see the goals from that game again, just look at how mental our fans crammed in behind the goal, went when the 2 goals went in - I still say, that's the most mental crowd and celebrations I've ever been involved in. AWESOME !! :cool:

I remember being on the pitch at the final whistle, celebration a "promotion" that was cruelly snatched away from us - here's a post I submitted a long while ago, about the game and scenes at the end of the game at Wrexham in 1979 :cry:

Wrexham away on the last day of the season (old Division 2) 1978/9 season

Brendan O' Fuckin' Callaghan - wrecked my & thousands of Sunderland fans celebrations on the pitch at Wrexham in 1979, by scoring an injury time goal to give Stoke City a last gasp victory at Notts County, which propelled Stoke above us despite us coming back from 1-0 down to win our game at Wrexham 2-1 and spark scenes of delirium from the thousands of Sunderland supporters who took over just about all of the ground.
When the fulltime whistle went, many thousands of Sunderland fans invaded the pitch to celebrate our promotion to the first division (the top league back then)
We won our game and as far as we knew, Stoke were only drawing 0-0 at Notts Co, which would have been enough for us to be promoted (no play offs in them days)
Myself & thousands were all celebrating on the pitch, when suddenly the Wrexham gadgie announced over the tannoy that, O'Fuckin' Callaghan had scored a last minute winner for Stoke to leapfrog us into promotion . . the Sunderland thousands gasped in disbelief while the foolish Wrexham fans in their end, cheered at out huge disappointment, and all of a sudden, a huge roar of anger went up from the Sunderland fans on the pitch, and they raced down to the Wrexham end of the ground, where some of their fans stupidly remained taunting the Sunderland fans, who charged over the barriers into their end and attacked any Wrexham fan they could get their hands on, and I even seen someone go racing past me, carrying a corner flag which was hurled like a spear, into the Wrexham fans in their end of the ground
After a bit of carnage & mayhem, the Sunderland fans got back onto our coaches and headed home, and I can't remember very much at all being said on the way home, as most people were too gutted to say much
We had a very slim chance of being promoted in 3rd place, ONLY if Crystal Palarse, who were also in the race for the last promotion slot, had lost their game at home to Burnley on the following Friday night . . they won 2-0 and went up as Champs and we finished in 4th place to face another season in the 2nd division, but we went up the following season 1979/80, finishing 2nd to Leicester City :-D
 
stubber said:
I was in the Anfield Road End so I could be wrang but I swear it was Hansen's rocket shot. Looked a goal all the way from where I was stood.
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it getting to look more and more like hansen. one thing i do remember was how warm it was that day. also the crowd surging back and forwards all the time
 
stephen cartwright said:
went to hull on a new years day, kick off approx 1045 for some unknown reason, got beat 3-2 and had a goal disallowed, despite the ball hitting the side netting and marks on the pitch showing the player was over the line, when he cleared it
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I'm 'only' 38 so I'll make this my only contribution to save the wrath of u old bassas, my abiding memory of that day is a bloke coming back from the pie stall and his mate asking him why he hadn't got owt, he replied 'There's nee burgers and nee bread cakes and nee tea and coffee cos there's nee hot watter'.

:lol:
 
Horley Chorley said:
I think you're right - we had 2 sides of the ground + 1 end (I was on the fence right behind our goal when Rostron & Brown scored our 2 goals)
If you ever get the chance to see the goals from that game again, just look at how mental our fans crammed in behind the goal, went when the 2 goals went in - I still say, that's the most mental crowd and celebrations I've ever been involved in. AWESOME !! :cool:

I remember being on the pitch at the final whistle, celebration a "promotion" that was cruelly snatched away from us - here's a post I submitted a long while ago, about the game and scenes at the end of the game at Wrexham in 1979 :cry:
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Wasn't far from you as I was to the right of the goal on the fence! Brown's goal is still my favourite of all-time...coming as it did after Siddall's save from McNeil's header and then catching the corner and setting off the counter attack. They go on about Man U/Arsenal scoring on the counter but it must have been 10 seconds from Siddall's throw to Brown scoring...class!!!
 
The maggots are not the real enemy to a lot of fans of my generation (talkin' 'bout my generation ;)), the real enemy is Leeds Utd.

The matches between SAFC and Leeds in the 60's were brutal affairs. Leeds twice broke Bobby Kerr's leg and effectively finished the promising career of Willie McPheat. What happened on the pitch got to the fans on the terraces. Leeds Utd is the only football club that I truely despise. In my experience their fans (to this day) are the most ignorant, racist, chip on shoulder arseholes that I have ever encountered. In younger days I was never one for getting involved in "bovver". But there were times at away matches when you just found yourself in a position where you had to protect yourself, but when it came to Leeds I found myself being "pro-active". How sweet it was on May 5th 1973. I got the Charlie Hurley biography amongst my Christmas presents and the SAFC/Leeds "thing" is superbly summed up in the book.

I have a vivid memory of Spurs at Roker Park in the late 70's, arrogant cockney wankers spoiling for a fight and they got one, a right feckin' hammering. As they "ran" like big girls blouses out from the Roker End onto the pitch the police surrounded them like collie dogs and shepherded them out the ground via the the player's tunnel. I was at the match with my wife to be and her Newcastle Poly flatmate. At final whistle on leaving the Roker End all the Spurs fans were waiting out of the back of the Roker End, all hell broke loose. So there's me with 2 lasses to look after in the middle of it all punchin' and kickin' a trail through it all to get the lasses, frightened and in tears, out of the way. What a feckin' hero ;):roll:.

The football now isn't as earthy as it was back in those days, but nowadays I love the fact that you can wear your colours as a sign that you are only interested in the football and get involved in great craic with the opposing fans. All but Leeds fans that is.
 
Corvus said:
The maggots are not the real enemy to a lot of fans of my generation (talkin' 'bout my generation ;)), the real enemy is Leeds Utd.

The matches between SAFC and Leeds in the 60's were brutal affairs. Leeds twice broke Bobby Kerr's leg and effectively finished the promising career of Willie McPheat. What happened on the pitch got to the fans on the terraces. Leeds Utd is the only football club that I truely despise. In my experience their fans (to this day) are the most ignorant, racist, chip on shoulder arseholes that I have ever encountered. In younger days I was never one for getting involved in "bovver". But there were times at away matches when you just found yourself in a position where you had to protect yourself, but when it came to Leeds I found myself being "pro-active". How sweet it was on May 5th 1973. I got the Charlie Hurley biography amongst my Christmas presents and the SAFC/Leeds "thing" is superbly summed up in the book.

I have a vivid memory of Spurs at Roker Park in the late 70's, arrogant cockney wankers spoiling for a fight and they got one, a right feckin' hammering. As they "ran" like big girls blouses out from the Roker End onto the pitch the police surrounded them like collie dogs and shepherded them out the ground via the the player's tunnel. I was at the match with my wife to be and her Newcastle Poly flatmate. At final whistle on leaving the Roker End all the Spurs fans were waiting out of the back of the Roker End, all hell broke loose. So there's me with 2 lasses to look after in the middle of it all punchin' and kickin' a trail through it all to get the lasses, frightened and in tears, out of the way. What a feckin' hero ;):roll:.

The football now isn't as earthy as it was back in those days, but nowadays I love the fact that you can wear your colours as a sign that you are only interested in the football and get involved in great craic with the opposing fans. All but Leeds fans that is.
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Absolutely spot on mate!

I too hate those yorkshire bastards more than any other club.
 
Parkmaverick said:
Used to have a big red/white/black scarf round me neck. re/white/black woolie hat and 2 silk scarfs for me wristsr- Stokoes Stars was one can't remember the other. The hat went missing as I was walking up past the cage and we scored a late goal v Monty (Birmingham) '77.
Can also remember those badges

Newcastle Couldn't win a match on fantasy island etc.
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Mel Holden, header?:lol: my 2nd ever game at RP - 1st being a 1-1 draw with Derby, goal a pen by Towers 1976 i think.

Horley Chorley said:
Could it be the on-off cup tie at Burnley in the 1978-79 season ?
The game was postponed a couple of times due to the frost/snow, but we eventually managed to get the game on, in midweek in February 1979 and we drew 1-1 (Entwhistle scored for us, and I think Leighton James may have scored their equaliser)
It was f***ing frezing like you said, Stubber, and I remember being in the police escort to the ground and as we were being marched along the road, a lad next to me got arrested, coz the large carving knife he was concealing up his coat sleeve, fell out and onto the floor, and he was immediately nabbed by the coppers :eek:
I remember loads of fighting insisde the ground too, and we had a good part of the side stand and behind one of the goals as well.
Liverpool were waiting for the winners in the 5th round, but typical of Sunderland, we blew it in front of nearly 40,000 fans in the home replay and we got walloped 0-3, though the night was memorable because of some lad running along the roof of the Clock Stand :eek:
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Some pitch invader also got cythed down by a supporter after running away from the Police along the cinder track - it was like Pitts tackle on Clarke:lol: in Cup Final. Iirc Safc had a young Gk in after Siddall got injured or ill before the match.
 
Me and my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife took a day of work and travelled down to that Palace night match .......50,000ish crowd and could'nt get in and spent the night in the pub with Palace fans who thought we were mad..........ended up sleeping on the floor at this a palace fans house
 
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