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Sunderland Hooligans

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For the lads who say they attended games for years and never seen bother or managed to avoid it..
My first away game was hull 71ish just a youngun bank holliday monday we were in the side terracing with the train station behind us about 1000 in the ground at 2pm when hull charged us with me standing on the edge of sland and them getting closer by the second me bricking it not knowing what to do run or what ...as they got 20ft the sland lot just went at them who stopped and backed off ...thats what it was like in the 70s no segregation no firms onto firms just tribes onto tribes like best way to describe it you learned to hide your colours when required ,ghost away tho at times it was hard with the clothes you wore at the time so far behind london fashions etc,and the london clubs were the first to be organized before that the numbers sland had at away games got respect and help you from getting attacked ...if you followed s/land themdays and liked a drink with your mates there was 30 of us we never looked for trouble it found us good times yes but dodgy times also ...
worst thing i seen was fulham away 74 returning to our coach at midnight we use to park next to st pancras station a few coaches us shields gateshead etc ...after a good night in london going back we got told milwall were waiting for us be carefull etc and as we neared our coach sure enough there was hell on with a mob attacking some lads we tried to help more of them appeared and we had to back off when one lad got caught and laid out unconcious with this lad still hitting him with what appeared to be a part of a drain pipe probally 40 of us and 150 plus of them..was sickening ob turned up 30 mins after it kicked off
 

Iceman said:
Under Peter Reid when we got beat 3-2, losing 3-0 and scored two late goals, had 3 mini buses on, walking back to buses after game Coventry came out of nowhere to have a pop, as soon as they saw we werent moving you could tell straight away there bottles had gone, windmilling commenced which soon saw the sky blues leg off into the distance..... been there a few times and in all honesty other than that havent seen much off them. There was a large boozer just opposite the away end up on the left hand side IIRC, few gobshites used to hang about there! This was highfield road not the new one.
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The incident with my brother was in the 80,s when Chris Turner played.I think we got beat, but i remember he saved a penalty.
 
jarralee

Your 'tribe post' is how I remember things.

We used to go away and know that there'd be enough Sunderland lads to keep things under control ........... when the organised 'firms' came in we were knacked for a while and we were attacked from morning 'til night at Stamford Bridge once.
It wasn't just Chelsea, there was Arsenal after us as well.

One of the worst was at Leyton Orient when West Ham's firm came after us. We had to smash up some poor blokes gate to arm ourselves because the local police didn't know what was happening ....... there was half a dozen of them with those pathetic wooden truncheons.

The weapons we had were more sophisticated :)

It's all very well people saying the Sunderland firms were bad but they don't realise that they would've had much more bother if they weren't there standing their ground.
 
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Cochise 2 said:
It was after Hull away, about 1977. Sunderland had a huge following at Hull that day, 10 - 12,000. A convoy of coaches were heading home up the A1, when a couple of coach loads of Leeds were returning from Newcastle. The Leeds fans had stopped off at the services and spotted the Sunderland buses heading north and decided it would be a good idea to brick them. One of the Sunderland buses was damaged and pulled up, closely followed by another. Leeds got battered and indeed it was national news.

We also made national news first game of the season away to Chelsea a couple of years later. Sunderland fans were put on the tube after the game, the tube pulled into the next station and was attacked by Chelsea fans armed with scaffolding from some building work that was going on nearby.
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My recollection is that 5 bus loads of Sunderland fans stopped after the initial bus was bricked by the Leeds lot - the traffic on both carriageways was brought to a complete standstill during the fracas!


You're 100% correct about it hitting the national news - even Jimmy Hill on Match of the Day tut tutted about the bother.

Swindon Mackem said:
No, I can remember it happening. It was at the far end of the pitch from us, we were in the covered home end that day. Im sure it happened not long after Oxford had scored.
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That's correct - I was in the open end (you could walk round 3 sides of the Manor Ground in those days), from where this big bloke with long hair casually walked from, then started to twat the Oxford goalkeeper!

The astonishing thing was he apparently only got hoyed out and reappeared just before the final whistle. It would be at least a 4 year stretch these days for such shenanigans!
 
Riviera said:
There was a photo in the papers of the ginger lad, long hair and a beard, charging our side. We were near the front and he came out of their end like a madman. Lucky for him he was scuppered by the police.

I reckon that was also the day the police brought the horses onto the terraces to push us back.
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It was. Somebody on here, hoyed up a canny photo of it, a few month back. The same picture was on the wall in the Premier club.
 
no one remembers whos car got overturned outside the SOL then? im sure it was an ex mag players
 
Cornelius said:
no one remembers whos car got overturned outside the SOL then? im sure it was an ex mag players
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I came round the back of the Roker end after one match to see a police car on it's roof ........ can none of you lot remember that!
 
one at the SOL was a night game around 98/99 i reckon. newcastle sticker in the window and im sure the owner of the car was an ex mag and was crying about it on the radio
 
right, who was on this coach then?

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anyone know the sunderland lad who got stabbed at birmingham 7 times? he ended up in a wheelchair iirc? cowardly bastards those blue nose fuckers.
 
Cornelius said:
boro would take part but sunderland/newcastle wouldnt so it was dropped
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I suspect that unlike most of the hoolies interviewd during that series, who were well known to the OB and already subject to banning orders, Mag and Sunderland Hoolies didn't want the publicity.
 
The Cultured Mackem said:
I suspect that unlike most of the hoolies interviewd during that series, who were well known to the OB and already subject to banning orders, Mag and Sunderland Hoolies didn't want the publicity.
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pretty much. all well and good interviewing lads who have written books or long since retired but thats not the case with sunderland (dont think newcastle have one either)
 
Cornelius said:
pretty much. all well and good interviewing lads who have written books or long since retired but thats not the case with sunderland (dont think newcastle have one either)
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There is a niche in the market then, for someone. It would be a good read; we know it’s been going on for years, particularly the 1980’s…..
 
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