1993 Bennett testimonial


Me father was there.

He got there around 5pm and the windows were out at The Terminus at that time. Said he saw a Rangers fan stabbed with a syringe outside The Wheatsheaf. Also said that there were Chelsea fans present.

Roker Avenue a battlefield as the 2 sets of fans slugged it out.

Said that at one point he was in The Terminus and a Rangers fan came over and said that he had followed Rangers for years and had never seen bother like it. He asked how he got to Roker Park and my dad said - see those lads fighting down that street? Directly through them". At which point the Rangers fan went ashen faced.
 
For some reason I thought someone got stabbed in Easington village before the game ?
We met some great lads from Rangers in the Borough swapped shirts -I took my seat at Roker( with rangers top on ) and got dogs abuse of some safc fans for wearing the top -I didn’t know about the stabbing -we were all drinking together and it had been no problem -can understand their anger
The lad who got slashed was from Easington but it happened in Digby's.
 
Me father was there.

He got there around 5pm and the windows were out at The Terminus at that time. Said he saw a Rangers fan stabbed with a syringe outside The Wheatsheaf. Also said that there were Chelsea fans present.

Roker Avenue a battlefield as the 2 sets of fans slugged it out.

Said that at one point he was in The Terminus and a Rangers fan came over and said that he had followed Rangers for years and had never seen bother like it. He asked how he got to Roker Park and my dad said - see those lads fighting down that street? Directly through them". At which point the Rangers fan went ashen faced.
Read the editorial in their fanzine Follow Follow after that game to see what they think of Sunderland’s lads. Once people finished work that day our lot had read about what had been going on and turned up and the nonsense stopped. Even BOSS got a mention, never mind Seaburn and Vauxies.

SAFC OK.
 
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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.
Hateley was fantastic, never rated him until that night.

We went into the New Derby beforehand, horrible atmosphere, as it was walking from the town over to there.
 
I remember drinking in the Fort before the game with not 1 bit of bother. That wasn’t the case outside as there was hell on. Loads of Londoners following rangers kicked off with a carpet of glass down Roker Ave.
The crowd in the fort were good people and my lasting memory was a rangers lad playing becks bottles like an orange man on the drum which actually sounded class.
The lads in there were embarrassed by the bother.
 
Pissed up rangers fans weren’t the issue , it was their “lads” who teamed up with Chelsea , all pre planned . We nearly got done in the Londonderry , was about ten of us and mob of 50 came in , just as we were waking out it kicked off and couple of them came outside with blades … wankers. We were lucky
 
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Pissed up rangers fans weren’t the issue , it was their “lads” who teamed up with Chelsea , all pre planned . We nearly got done in the Londonderry , was about ten of us and mob of 50 came in , just as we were waking out it kicked off and couple of them came outside with blades … wankers. We were lucky
They took a deserved beating down the back of allied carpets, the wankers
 
I remember during the match a lot of bad feeling was caused by someone in a Mag top in the Clockstand.
However, one brave sole was hoist aloft at the back of the Fulwell wearing a Celtic top. Didn’t go down well either.

I couldn’t believe that the Rangers fan was allowed to “perform” in front of the Fulwell for so long, should have been hooked straight away. The sanctimonious condescending pissed kernt.

Ally McCoist had a Sunderland scarf on, we were all sure he was going to re sign for us the next season 😂
 
Rangers had most of the Clock Stand iirc. Mark Hatley was different class that day.
They had the Roker end as well I think.
I thought it was 2 brothers from Castletown way that got slashed in digbys
Definitely Easington lads
I seem to rememebr them unfurling a huge 'King Billy' flag in the Clock stand. Took up nearly the full lenght of the clock stand. Never seen naything like that before.
The massive flag had Linwood Hit Squad across the centre
 
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