Footage from the 60s

[BombayBadboy]

Lincoln City 1 Sunderland 2

14th January 1961

Some class rare footage just came across for the first time.

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[PatsyMackem]

Great find. This was just the season before I started going (27th January 1962, home to Port Vale in the Cup, crowd over 48,000. 0-0. Got beat 3-1 in the replay) Super goal by

 

[Sunderland Brand]

Is that Cliff Mitchellmore commentating?

 

[JAZZMANB]

Is that Cliff Mitchellmore commentating?

Doesn't sounds like him .

 

[Jerryatric]

Is that Cliff Mitchellmore commentating?

Kenneth Wolstenholme? would be my guess

 

[Old Roker Ender]

Is that Cliff Mitchellmore commentating?

I'd doubt it. Don't think he did sports commentary

 

[BombayBadboy]

The atmosphere sounds so strange compared to say even 15 years later. Like a kick about in the park

 

[buster]

Imagine travelling down for the match in those days ? , be the best part of 7 hours I reckon.

 

[Drexl]

I was there. Left on 80 minutes.

 

[BlackHoleSun]

Imagine travelling down for the match in those days ? , be the best part of 7 hours I reckon.

One of my thoughts too. Bloody awful drive even in the modern day

The atmosphere sounds so strange compared to say even 15 years later. Like a kick about in the park

Things must have changed sharpish through the 60s into the 70s for football

A different game in a different world. The beginning of the end of the old era presumably

Good watch that

 

[unfairadvantage]

Jesus. The standard is absolutely shite

 

[buster]

One of my thoughts too. Bloody awful drive even in the modern day

It’s not too bad , driven there a few times , less than 3 hours including a stop iirc.

 

[BlackHoleSun]

It’s not too bad , driven there a few times , less than 3 hours including a stop iirc.

My Lincolnshire driving views may be negatively affected by towing a caravan to Skeggy several times. The poor buggers who were following me probably think so too

 

[Bonzo]

Sounds like the lad from the World Cup can't remember his name though.

 

[BombayBadboy]

Jesus. The standard is absolutely shite

It really is isn't it? But it's still fascinating to watch something from that far back candidly like that.

 

[contrarian]

Jesus. The standard is absolutely shite

Easy to say but give the best players in any era the same diet, training etc etc and add in the competitive instinct and I have no doubt they’d match up to current day players
Pele had won his first World Cup by then
Di Stefano, Puskas, Bobby Moore and Charlton and many others were around

 

[Clock Stand]

Imagine travelling down for the match in those days ? , be the best part of 7 hours I reckon.

mind they'd be more than two carriages of the equivalent of northern rail!
Was that Charlie Hurley goal disallowed? ...from a lovely Harry Hooper corner.. 2,48 minutes ... they never had many tall players but it might have been Lawther or McPheat.

Lovely to see Anderson and Hooper after all these years .... the Anderson Hurley McNab half back line was very good ... but to me Hooper was one of the most exciting player in the league .. Anderson's goal was typical of what he could do. McPheat's career was cut short in one of the many clashes with Leeds... a teenage sensation [very few of them in those days] highest ever scoring teenager ever at Sunderland with 23 goals before he turned 20 ... more than the likes of Maja Mayenda etc. [

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Different days in football Stan Anderson played for Sunderland ...then Newcastle and Middlesbrough as well as captaining them all!

It really is isn't it? But it's still fascinating to watch something from that far back candidly like that.

you try playing on that pitch

 

[Hendonbeach]

Jesus. The standard is absolutely shite

No doubt in 65 years someone will make the same comment about today’s football .
Week before was at Roker Park to see SAFC come from behind to beat Arsenal with Stan Anderson scoring 2 great goals . Wonder if anybody in the 58,000 crowd realised their were watching absolute shite

 

[ShieldsBlackCat2015]

On the BFI website I am sure there is a game going back to 1909 I think.

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[Unlucky Black Cat]

Jesus. The standard is absolutely shite

Playing on a ploughed field didn't help, like.