Happy Birthday SAFC - 125 Years Old - October 2004

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scott934 said:
This has to be GOLD.

Best thread on here in a long time.

And it WILL be, don't you worry. But once we make it 'gold', no further replies can be added (quirk of the software). So we'll leave it as a sticky post for a while then move it to the gold board later.
 


MACKEM ANGELS said:
scott934 said:
This has to be GOLD.

Best thread on here in a long time.

And it WILL be, don't you worry. But once we make it 'gold', no further replies can be added (quirk of the software). So we'll leave it as a sticky post for a while then move it to the gold board later.

Okay then. Fair enough. BTW thanks to all the people who posted the match reports and things, especially MBH, very interesting to read.
 
superb thread. some great pictures. my main memory of watching safc since 1990 will probably be safc vs everton, last league game at roker park.
 
Basil Brush said:

Brought tears to my eyes that.

What was going on there when they were presented with the cup and medals? First off, a posh looking woman (with the long white jacket, no idea who she is) is licking Bobby Kerr's ear. Then he drops the cup. Then virtually every other bloke after slips up on the stairs.

Quality!!
 
Has anyone got a good picture of Roker Park before the Roker End "renovation". The noise from Roker Park was absolutely frightening when the old Roker End was rocking.
 
My Boy Harry said:
Sunderland AFC 3 v 3 Newcastle United FC
Roker Park, Sunderland
Football League Division 1
30 December 1967
Attendance: 46,030
Referee: K Howly (Middlesbrough)


On 26 December 1967, just 4 days prior to this pulsating Roker Park draw, Sunderland AFC had left St James Park feeling aggrieved at the 1 v 2 defeat by their arch rivals, in a game watched by the North East’s highest crowd for 4 years 59,382. A foul on Montgomery had gone unpunished and led to the Magpie goal that would ultimately tip the game in favour of Tyneside.

The return fixture however would involve no such travesty’s, just a quite brilliant game of football, rather untypical of derby affairs. Sunderland once more had the upper hand, possession wise, but the never-say-die attitude of the black and whites gave them a McNamee equaliser just 2 minutes from the end, having looked down and out. The Newcastle skipper Iley led his men back from the brink to leave the Wearside faithful frustrated once more. Battered and bruised all players left the ground having given no quarter. Hurley limped out after 60 minutes with an injured knee.

Newcastle United went ahead after 13 minutes when a mistimed Hurley tackle saw Wyn Davies take a tumble inside the area. Ollie Burton made no mistake from the spot and it was game on. If The Magpies thought that the tone was set for an afternoon of supremacy they were in for a shock. By 47 minutes they would trail 1 v 3 to a red and white storm!!

Colin Suggett, on his 19th birthday, was a Sunderland hero as 2 goals in 3 minutes turned the game Wearside’s way. With the visitors down to 10 men, through an Ollie Burton injury, Suggett crashed the ball home after good work by Ashurst. Not long after, persistent play by Martin gave Suggett the chance to stab the ball home, just inside the post. The neutrals might argue that at half time there was little to choose between the 2 sides but not long after the restart Sunderland looked to have an unassailable lead. On 47 minutes Stuckey cracked home a beauty.

The turning point undoubtedly came with just 20 minutes left as Ashurst upended Elliott just inside the box. Burton, recovered from his injury made no mistake and scored his second spot kick.

Newcastle then piled the pressure on, searching for an unlikely and improbable equaliser but it came on 88 minutes. Iley, who had played marvellous for the visitors floated a nice looking corner towards McNamee. The centre half timed it perfectly and sent the ball thundering home.

Sunderland were silenced and the beaming faces of the Magpie players at the end told its own story. They had got out of jail and they knew it.

Revenge of sorts would be exacted by Sunderland AFC’s Youth Cup winning side of the previous season as they travelled to St James Park 3 days later and returned home with a 1 v 0 victory. The Black Cat side that day included Pitt and Tueart, youngsters that just 5 years later would send shock waves through football as they humbled the then mighty Leeds United in 1973.

Sunderland: Montgomery, Irwin, Ashurst, Todd, Hurley, Porterfield, Stuckey, Suggett, Martin, Brand, Mulhall
Substitute: Kinnell

Newcastle United: Marshall, Burton, Clarke, Elliott, McNamee, Moncur, Scott, Bennett, Davies, Iley, Robson

I was there........remember it like it as yesterday!

Lots of fun and games in the Fulwell end IMMSMC.

Respect to Sundeland AFC. :)
 
Wise men say, only fools rush in....
but i cant help, falling in love with you, wise men say !
only fools rush in, but i cant help, falling in love with you
Sun'land ! Sun'land !
 
lord cheese said:
GK said:
Has anyone got a good picture of Roker Park before the Roker End "renovation". The noise from Roker Park was absolutely frightening when the old Roker End was rocking.
These pictures are from The 1954-55 season v Blackpool, from the Centenary Video and you can see it if you click the link
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Chisssweese/1954-55.ASF
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Brilliant!! That stand was frightening!! The real Roker Roar was lost when it was chopped in half.
 
GK said:
Basil Brush said:

Brought tears to my eyes that.

What was going on there when they were presented with the cup and medals? First off, a posh looking woman (with the long white jacket, no idea who she is) is licking Bobby Kerr's ear. Then he drops the cup. Then virtually every other bloke after slips up on the stairs.

Quality!!

It was the wife of then Sunderland chairman, Kieth Collings. All the players got a peck on the cheek as they made their way along the Royal Box.
 
Some fantastic pictures there, it feels good to be a (very small) part of that incredible 125 years.
 
The wonderful articles above prompt many great memories - not just of the all-time greats like Carter [whom I only saw once in a red-and-white shirt, and that was only a war-time game], Shack, Ford, Anderson, Hurley, Clough, Montgomery, Willie and Dave Watson, Herd, Crossan, Daniel, Kerr, Gabbiadini, Rowell, Phillips and Quinn...and so on. My greatest regret? Being born too late to see the great Charlie Buchan. If I were asked to say who were the three most influential players in the history of SAFC I would say Buchan, Carter and Shack , in that order. They were wonderful players for SAFC but they were also nationally recognised as three of football's all-time greats.

From a kaleidoscope of memories, in no particular order of importance and including some of the less famous names, these are some of the things that stand out in my mind:

Raich Carter returning to Roker Park with the great Derby side immediately after the war and receiving a tumultuous reception from a 60,000 plus crowd; Trevor Ford smashing the Fulwell End goal post when he scored on his debut; being 3-0 down to Chelsea at half-time and Ken Chisolm hammering in four second half goals to win 4-3; 'Cannonball' Charlie Fleming flashing rockets into the net from 40 and 45 yards out; Don Kichenbrand - [the Rhino] - battering his way through defences with no skill whatsoever and only his tremendous physique to put the fear of God into opposing defences; Arthur Wright, the most exquisite passer of a ball I have ever seen; Dickie Davis, an average centre forward suddenly having an 'Indian Summer' and banging in the goals all over the place from Shack's passes; and Shack himself - nutmegging players, putting ferocious spin on the ball to confuse opponents, playing the ball off the corner flag, taking a throw-in from up in the stands, sitting on the ball after he'd beaten a man and waiting for the next tackle; beating the back, rounding the goalkeeper then stopping the ball on the line with his foot on top of it and - when the goalkeeper rushed towards him - gently rolling it into the net; Shack scoring three as we hammered Arsenal 7-1 shortly after beating them 4-1 at Highbury; Harry Hooper tearing down the right wing on mazy, zig-zag runs at the speed of light and leaving opponents sprawling in his wake; gentle Willie Watson - the most sporting of footballers who played for England in three different positions and in all eleven for SAFC after he completed the nap hand by going between the posts after a goalkeeper injury; Stan Anderson driving the team on from all over the pitch, leading by example and getting the best out of the players; Bobby Kerr, the Little General, in complete control at Wembley; Monty's fantastic save; unsung Dick Malone's magnificent performance in snuffing out the Eddie Gray magic; Dave Watson in total command of the defence; standing on the terraces at Ashton Gate and seeing Gabbiadini for the first time - tearing into the Bristol City defence in a League cuptie which we won 6-0 and the Bristol spectators clapping Marco off the pitch; the fantastic Spurs 6th Round FA Cuptie 1- 1 draw in their double year - when Willie McPheat scored the equaliser in the Roker End and it took several minutes to clear the pitch of dancing spectators- still the most exciting game I ever saw at Roker Park and we all know what the great Danny Blanchflower said about the fearsome Roker Roar that day; Brian Clough like a marauder in the penalty box snapping up half chances left, right and centre; being present on that snowy Boxing Day against Bury when Clough's career was in effect ended ; the wonderful evening 5th Round replay of '73 when we beat Man City 3-1 - Vic Halom scored a magnificent goal - and it seemed that the whole of the ninety minutes was one continuous roar; little Ambrose Fogarty almost starting World War Three in the Roker End against Gravesend and Northfleet in a cuptie when he took exception to a vicious tackle and immediately started a rumpus which involved just about every player plus the referee and linesmen; Charlie Hurley, absolute gentleman - in the mould of Willie Watson - striding the pitch like a colossus stopping everything at one end and coming up the other end to the the accompanying roar of 'Charlie, Charlie ...' and flashing in fierce goal-bound headers; Gary Rowell ramming in three against Newcastle; Niall Quinn rising majestically above everyone to catch the ball on his chest then gently and accurately lobbing the goalkeeper; Kevin Phillips prowling the penalty area and getting on the end of Niall's flicks; George Herd, Johnny Crossan, George Mulhall, ...where does one stop.

Everyone has personal memories that will live with them forever. Stories are passed down from father to son to grandchild - and it will always be so. These are the reasons we follow Sunderland, the reasons why we experience highs and lows, and these are the reasons why we will never stop following them. SAFC is our club.
 
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