1993 Bennett testimonial


Above messages posted at the same time! Rangers it was! Yes, I was there. Mark Hateley ripped us apart. Thankfully, I managed to miss any scenes outside.
 
Aye, my abiding memory was running battles on Roker Avenue and hundreds of pissed Rangers fans sitting and lying on the floor of Roker Baths Road, supping cans
 
Warm sunny evening. The lad we signed from Rangers ( Ferguson ? ) looked good but I don't think his former teammates were going to spoil his debut ..
 
On the afternoon of the game at around 12pm a double decker bus passed me while I was on my lunch in the Gateshead area and it was bouncing up and down with hordes of pissed up jocks with bottles and cans being waved around. On the night of the game I remember it being very edgy walking from Seaburn to Roker Park. I can still see one Rangers supporter swigging from a broken bottle of beer outside the ground.
 
If I remember correctly a Rangers fan got on the pitch and held up a scarf, might have imagined this but I'm sure he stamped on it.
 
I vaguely remember a fan encroaching the pitch and kissing a Rangers scarf and was roundly booed by the Fulwell End. He then produced a Sunderland scarf and kissed that too. As he was led away by the police the whole ground cheered him. Rangers were immense, too quick and powerful for us on the evening and Mark Hateley was almost unplayable, scoring a brace of second half goals and nearly snapping the crossbar with a towering header.
 

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