HEADLINE - in one discredited rag was made up in one newspaper.....If you can find me any TV footage of the incident I will happily admit NUFC fans were in the wrong.
You won't find any - despite it being live on TV - cos it never happened.
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HEADLINE - in one discredited rag was made up in one newspaper.....If you can find me any TV footage of the incident I will happily admit NUFC fans were in the wrong.
You won't find any - despite it being live on TV - cos it never happened.
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more importantly - the West Ham fans still remember.
Stewart Pen 1:26 Sat Feb 23
Re: Twenty years gone, never forgotten
The minutes silence after he died was not observed by Newcastle fans in the live game that weekend at Tranmere. I'll never forgive them for that, they lack the class of their Mackem rivals.
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AB22 Easy Tiger
Heaven Branch
Who remembers this? 20 years ago, the Sunderland fans showed their respect for this great player against West Ham at a sombre Roker Park, you literally could have heard a pin drop. Similar scenes were repeated up and down the country - with one notable exception.
Yep, remember it well. Not a sound.
Rip Van Fish
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indeed.
We have always been welcomed at WHU since then- as for that lot up the road....ermmmm not.
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safcbucky76
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Was thinking about this today, I remember them playing the famous commentary from the World Cup towards the end of the silence I think. West Ham fans were also applauding the Sunderland fans on their way home out of Sunderland.
Seemed to be greatly appreciated what we had done! Showed our class that day.
Seemed to be greatly appreciated what we had done! Showed our class that day.
Kevin Arnott's right boot
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At Leicester for Keith Weller too. Just lads arriving late and not realising that there was a silence. Nothing intentional
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OohBaldyBally
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A mag trying to rewrite history ... Fancy that
mackums trying to claim the moral high ground...fancy that...
There's no rewritng of history - a rag sticks 'SCUM' on it's front page - as they did with Liverpool fans at Hillsborough..you have a short memory - this was at a time when football fans were all scum on the eyes of the Tory press
ChrisAshley
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Was he any good?
Vindaloo Man
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Who remembers this? 20 years ago, the Sunderland fans showed their respect for this great player against West Ham at a sombre Roker Park, you literally could have heard a pin drop. Similar scenes were repeated up and down the country - with one notable exception.
Didn't WHU return the favour a couple of years later at RP with some kind of floral tribute to Wearmouth Colliery? Or did I imagine this?
AB22 Easy Tiger
Heaven Branch
No you didn't. Two miners had died at Wearmouth and the WHU fans had a whip around to buy a wreath which they placed in the centre circle.
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voodoo ray
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Well as a mag who was actually there, let me explain. In the ground the minutes silence was observed very well, however what was heard was many outside, queueing to get in, singing, chanting etc. Also I'm not 100% sure Tranmere had a silence for him as we all thought it was for Jamie Bulger.
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