Any exiles wishing they were home due to our form?


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If it goes on like this, I will be back for a couple of games in Feb/March, and be back for 2/3 weeks at the end of the season. It could all go tits up of course, but I'm not missing what could be an historic run-in. Getting aged parents two half-season tickets for Xmas just in case. Can't wait for Everton match.
 
Normally I would be back for the last weeks of the season, but this year for family reasons I cannot. Bummer given the (apparent) circumstances.
 
Normally I would be back for the last weeks of the season, but this year for family reasons I cannot. Bummer given the (apparent) circumstances.

By that you mean us collecting the Premier League trophy at Upton Park followed by the FA Cup at Wembley the week after?
 
Fairweather fan!

If it goes on like this, I will be back for a couple of games in Feb/March, and be back for 2/3 weeks at the end of the season. It could all go tits up of course, but I'm not missing what could be an historic run-in. Getting aged parents two half-season tickets for Xmas just in case. Can't wait for Everton match.

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I'm off to the US next year and if we get in amongst the top 6 I'll be gutted (for me...not the lads or the town obviously). Hopefully I can latch onto a live match stream on here and have a natter with you lot so it won't be too bad.
 
Yes.. I had a season ticket last season, missing it this season. Still manage to watch via streams, but not the same. :(
 
If it goes on like this, I will be back for a couple of games in Feb/March, and be back for 2/3 weeks at the end of the season. It could all go tits up of course, but I'm not missing what could be an historic run-in. Getting aged parents two half-season tickets for Xmas just in case. Can't wait for Everton match.


you missed a 5-1 twatting off the mags and you feel homesick:lol:

no thanks
 
If it goes on like this, I will be back for a couple of games in Feb/March, and be back for 2/3 weeks at the end of the season. It could all go tits up of course, but I'm not missing what could be an historic run-in. Getting aged parents two half-season tickets for Xmas just in case. Can't wait for Everton match.

Not a f***ing chance. See virtually every game on tv and wake up to blue skies every morning. Golf 2/3 times a week and the mrs is driving us to a BBQ as we speak. I go to the games when I'm home but I'll never live there permanently again, I'll fly the flag from afar.:cool:
 
By that you mean us collecting the Premier League trophy at Upton Park followed by the FA Cup at Wembley the week after?

I reserve the option to revise my travel plans. Get me a ticket for Wembley when they go on sale.
 
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I will admit to that.

Since the Thatcher years I could never get a job in Sunderland and I have pretty much wandered Europe (mostly) and the globe for work. I miss my club like crazy, even when they are crap which has been often. The weather and the people here are both great, but boy out of Sunderland/Sunderland out of the boy remains true.

I will be in Sunderland 18 Dec with my German girlfriend. We will be at the match. My first for 2 years - and I am really looking forward to it. Watching Toulouse, Bordeaux and Köln is fine _ but not Sunderland. It is watching, not loving.
 
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Sadly, I don't have any plans to return 'home' for at least two more years, even then that will probably be only a brief sojourn. So it's late nights and streaming for me for the forseeable. Honestly, I miss it, but it's spending time with my family at the match and talking about with other people that I miss even more. People think the EPL is huge in Japan, but it's certain teams. As soon as you mention Sunderland, most people haven't heard of us.
 
Was back for the Arsenal game. Was shocked at how well we can play.

Wish I was there for Everton. It could be a special night (though most times we think that we stink the place out)
 
Sadly, I don't have any plans to return 'home' for at least two more years, even then that will probably be only a brief sojourn. So it's late nights and streaming for me for the forseeable. Honestly, I miss it, but it's spending time with my family at the match and talking about with other people that I miss even more. People think the EPL is huge in Japan, but it's certain teams. As soon as you mention Sunderland, most people haven't heard of us.

That may soon change;)
 
I'm off to the US next year and if we get in amongst the top 6 I'll be gutted (for me...not the lads or the town obviously). Hopefully I can latch onto a live match stream on here and have a natter with you lot so it won't be too bad.

There's more football (sawker) on the TV here in North America than there is back home tbh mate. If you are going to be near New York, Nevada Smith's is top-drawer and as close to back home you'll get. There's bars in every major population centre with matches and exiles.

As for being an exile. I have long since felt there's a direct correlation between SAFC being any good and my proximity to the ground itself. It's no concidence that me being here and SAFC actually doing something has occured! :lol::lol:

I am back home in 10 days, looking forward to seeing a few games. It was Blackburn at home last season my last game. :neutral:

I will be in Sunderland 18 Dec with my German girlfriend. We will be at the match. My first for 2 years - and I am really looking forward to it. Watching Toulouse, Bordeaux and Köln is fine _ but not Sunderland. It is watching, not loving.

Last game I was at was Canada v Peru in Toronto, and it wasn;t the same. Also, there's no MLS team where I am, but I go to the hockey, and again, it is nothing compared to watching SAFC.

Sadly, I don't have any plans to return 'home' for at least two more years, even then that will probably be only a brief sojourn. So it's late nights and streaming for me for the forseeable. Honestly, I miss it, but it's spending time with my family at the match and talking about with other people that I miss even more. People think the EPL is huge in Japan, but it's certain teams. As soon as you mention Sunderland, most people haven't heard of us.

Luckily I enjoy the crack with 1 other SAFC diehard exile here, but I know the crack with the rest of your post so much mate.
 
Personally its the away days I miss the most. I actually miss it like hell, but if I still lived in the UK I'd be divorced now.
The Great Western would have been my destination next Saturday.

I was back in the UK till August bank Holiday so saw the first 4 games of the season. Benty's penna made the whole trip worthwhile

I've seen every game since apart from Arsenal either live or as a rerun on TV. so I have an idea of whats going on
 
Yes. I made it back home to attend the Landfill then returned here under a fcukin big cloud. The sun is shining again.

Home December the 8th for a month.
 
As for being an exile. I have long since felt there's a direct correlation between SAFC being any good and my proximity to the ground itself. It's no concidence that me being here and SAFC actually doing something has occured! :lol::lol:

Last game I was at was Canada v Peru in Toronto, and it wasn;t the same. Also, there's no MLS team where I am, but I go to the hockey, and again, it is nothing compared to watching SAFC.

Luckily I enjoy the crack with 1 other SAFC diehard exile here, but I know the crack with the rest of your post so much mate.

I agree with pretty much everything said here! When we were flying under Reid, I lived no where near Sunderland. The first match I missed at the SoL was the 7-0 stuffing of Oxford! I lived in Toronto for a while as well, before they got the MLS franchise. I used to watch the Toronto Lynx play, it was dire stuff but they had a good goalkeeper (Theo Zagar) and an excellent striker (Nikolo Viginjevic, I've probably misspelled that) that would keep them in games. It never really felt the same, though (mind, half-time pizza is a glorious thing).

Lots of people joke about how the weather forms out 'background noise' in Britain. Always talking about the weather, always a good way to start a conversation. It's only when you move away that you realise that for the North East it's football. Where ever you go, be it Sunderland, Middlebrough or Newcastle, there's always that chatter - like a detuned radio or traffic noise - all around you about football. Nowhere else seems to have this and it's the only thing that I miss about 'home'.
 
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