12 years ago today Sunderland 2 Newcastle 1 25th October 2008

At Norwich in 1977 when Bobby Kerr equalised, my mate said it was like a homosexuals convention with all the grown men hugging and kissing 😅😅😅
We were at the caravan, me Mam thought she could smell gas so used a lighter to check the oven 🙈
It blew up in her face and she had to go to hospital.
We were outside playing swing ball and I had the radio on, as we heard the bang we equalised
She’s always a bit put out when we talk about it and I say just as you blew yourself up Bobby Kerr equalised at Norwich 🤣🤣🤣
 


Still my favourite goal at the SOL and the first time I’d seen us beat the scum whilst at the game.

Season ticket in the north stand those days and I remember the bloke behind me saying “you wouldn’t f***ing dare would you sunlun” just as Kieron was stepping back from putting the ball down.

Bang! Place went up and think half of the stand must have ended up in the row in front. Brilliant!
 
Steven Taylor, the Greenwich Geordie.
That’s him! Ooooh he’ll be all Greenwichy if we draw Cray Valley Paper Mills on Monday. @TheRey. Taylor will be Lambefff Wowk turned up to ten the twat. Dahn the blue etc etc.
I nivver liked Andy Carrol either but I believes his mas side are safc fans so he’s not all bad and giving Taylor a good shoeing confirmed it.
 
That’s him! Ooooh he’ll be all Greenwichy if we draw Cray Valley Paper Mills on Monday. @TheRey. Taylor will be Lambefff Wowk turned up to ten the twat. Dahn the blue etc etc.
I nivver liked Andy Carrol either but I believes his mas side are safc fans so he’s not all bad and giving Taylor a good shoeing confirmed it.
@riffraff if I come across him I'll lay him out on your behalf, mate. 😉
 
I missed this game, due to illness, which was to last for 11 years.
I had a season ticket, and had fallen ill a month before this game.
I struggled to make it to H/pool train station but was too ill to get on the train to Sunderland, so I got a taxi home and gave my ST to my brother.
My loss was his gain, and he later told me, it's the best atmosphere and celebrations he's ever known at the match, and in the pubs after the game.
 

Great day

I can remember him coming on after a long lay off with injury but I can't remember that Jones header just say looping over the bar! Probably should have hit the target and I would have expected him to at the time.

That with the Cisse effort off the post...it could have been a lot more comfortable in the end. The first ever derby win that I attended...I was 13 and in tears at full time.
 
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Was so much better with away fans behind the goal absolutely ruined any type of atmosphere that decision to move them to the gods, did nowt for our results either
 
12 years man where does the time go. Town was absolutely bouncing that night, we drank in Brogans at the time which isn’t even there anymore.

Remember it well. My first away derby game. I remember in the build up hearing that we hadn’t lost on wearside since the jams going underground was number 1. I got in the taxi to the station on matchday morning and that was the song on the radio as I got in so had a bad feeling! I remember the metro stopping somewhere on the way to St. Peter’s and people trying to get on but getting punched back to the platform.

The non existent segregation was always going to lead to the big trouble at the end too

Remember similar happening with one of our recent away derbies at your place, the metro stopping at places like Pelaw, Heworth and Felling. Nobody fancied getting on. It might’ve been the one without a police escort from central station actually, when strangely there wasn’t the usual welcoming committee hanging around outside Greggs!
 
Was confident going into it because they'd been a shambles with Keegan walking, Ashley In/Out, appointing Kinnear and the Simon Bird press conference :lol:

Cisse, Malbranque and Chimbonda were superb. Cisse relished those types of games.

Seven in the town had MOTD on, obviously everyone cheered the highlights. Showed the league table after and we were 9th, remember thinking everything was looking rosy. 6 weeks later Keane was gone and we'd won 1 lost 5.

Had a ridiculous amount to drink before and after, could handle it much better back then.
 
Was a bad day. But 12 years on who cares. The losers are still in Premier. The winners are in Third Division.
That's fair enough, though some may say the real loser, is the Mag (you) who spends his time, posting on a Sunderland message board. 😉
 

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