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stephen cartwright
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oh no it wasn'tAye it was Hansen.
it was souness. where are the stats people?
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oh no it wasn'tAye it was Hansen.
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 iirci 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
Aye, at the opposite end to us - we were in the Anfield Road end of the groundsure it was souness
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
Anyone else remember wearing their scarf tied around the wrist?
sure it was souness
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
check the other thread nowThought it was Kennedy.
oh no it wasn't
it was souness. where are the stats people?
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.oh no it wasn't
it was souness. where are the stats people?
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)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?
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 timeI 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.
Ray Fo... ex army, haven't seen him for 20 years
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
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 !!
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
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.
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.
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
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