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SAFC are one of the reasons keeping me from moving back. I don’t want to go every week and I know that’ll happen.It’s a bit annoying for a couple of hours on matchday but otherwise it hasn’t really affected me. This current decline has coincided with one of the most positive periods in my personal life. I even include moving back to the North East after 9 years in exile and getting a season ticket in that![]()
It’s shite but the worst thing is I’ve just accepted there’s a big chance we’ll be a league one club next season. The cruelest irony is we’ve got a manager who with moderate backing could turn us around
Complete opposite for my lad. He's a bit older at 15 but he's obsessed this season. Costing me a fortune paying for his away days.
Me? I just can't get angry. I'm used to us being shit. It's the norm.
Indeed mate. Totally understand everyone’s feelings in this as I have been through most of them!As is yours marra. In fact, they all are on this thread & even though many hold contrary views I find myself relating to most of them (as a previous poster, @Idle Mackem said)
I don't want to be melodramatic, but the real impact has been on the quality of the time I spend with my son. Loves football as much as me, he started with a season ticket at the age of 4, loved it, and times like the early days of O'Neill (eg Ji Dong-Won), the derby wins, the Wembley run, the Poyet great escape, were really enjoyable.
He's now 13, still loves football in general, but thanks to Ellis Short's destruction of the club, is totally apathetic about SAFC, and about going to the match, and often bins it. He certainly doesn't want to go to any more away games. I suspect when he goes it is as a bit of a 'favour' to me, and looking ahead, he certainly won't be going to watch us if he goes to University or gets a job or gets a girlfriend or whatever.
It's the lost generation of SAFC fans that is the worst bit of what that cunt Short has done to the club.
Similar situation here mate. My lad came to matches with me from the age of 6 but was generally uninterested in football till about two years ago when Xbox and the FIFA game came into his life.
He's now a football fanatic but his interest in the sport has coincided with the worst possible period in the history of SAFC. The games we've been going to have been - in the main - miserable experiences. We live in Yorkshire and an 11 year old saying he supports Sunderland round here is a quick route to ridicule.
One of his mates supports Man United and they are only interested in what's going on with the likes of Pogba and Ibrahimovic, etc... not the perennial losers at SAFC. I'll keep taking him to the game wherever I can but it's evident he'll go only as long as he HAS to.
The saddest part of it for me is that my family history is Sunderland through and through. Over the years, people have moved away or died. My last close relative who lived in the City died last year, meaning my only reason to return is the football club. I'd liked to have seen my lad keep the faith and the family legacy going in terms of supporting SAFC but I fear that won't be the case.
The worst part about it is that I really can't expect any different. A 200 mile round trip with the associated cost and time-impact to watch pathetic w@nkers like Grabban, Jones and Rodwell is not much of a legacy to pass on. Sad times - and the blame lies with Ellis Short, I'm sorry to say.
I am 58 yrs old. I saw my first match 50 years ago. Have been an exile for 30 years. Coming back to UK this year. Footballing wise, the worst time to come back I know. We have won one real trophy in that 50 years. But loads and loads of great memories, and the club has enriched my life to a monumental degree. No need to dwell on the individual moments, you all know what they are. Not trophy-laden then, but there was always hope - whether in old Div1/Premier, or the lower tiers - that it would not take that much to make us successful. But it appears that without a huge injection of cash, that seems far away now. It could take many years to get back to a position where we can challenge again, if it happens at all.
I check these pages every day, a lot of gallows humour, and a lot of anger. Rightly so. I am not pointing the finger in this post, too many others for that. I just wanted to explore the great sadness that so many people will feel at the moment. Those that have followed the club for decades, those a lot younger. It is the lowest ebb. Far worse than Lawrie Mac days.
For someone like me, who is getting on now, it is bitter-sweet. We have experienced the highs and the lows. We have also experienced what life has to throw at us, and know that time runs fast. Football as the years go by becomes less important. It's just the way it is. Other things to worry about. And for sanity's sake, it would be suicidal to keep worrying about the club, when you have yourself, family and friends to think/worry about. But there is no denying the sickness in the stomach when the mind currently turns to SAFC. One of the most important things in my life is going down the drain, and there seems no way out of it.
Sorry for the depressive nature of this post, I am normally a positive guy when it comes to SAFC. Coleman gives us some hope, but he is not a miracle worker. I just hope someone buys out Short sooner rather than later. With the cash to save us.
Good luck at Boro lads. Fans and team.
Good post but for me I still get angry. Because it may be the norm but it’s those beautiful rare glorious moments like the semi at Old Trafford or AJs winner at the shit tip, Covent Garden and Defoe’s winner against Chelsea. Feeling like I did at those moments makes the shockingly bad performances grate even more.Complete opposite for my lad. He's a bit older at 15 but he's obsessed this season. Costing me a fortune paying for his away days.
Me? I just can't get angry. I'm used to us being shit. It's the norm.
Jack Rodwell & Jack Colback are taking home about 150 grand a week between them. I don't love the game anymore.
This in a nutshell.Going to the match died to me long before this season,it’s not felt the same for many years..maybe I half grew out of it..don’t get me wrong,if a big rich Arab took over tomorrow with all promise we’d hope for I’d probably go to the odd game...I’ll never buy a season ticket though,I just don’t love the game enough anymore...sad really
Agree with all that...similar age to you , but still gannin,....SAFC means lots to lots of people...Sat night is not the same when we keep losing...but its the manner...i may be dreaming but one day i want to see an attacking side backed by the "ROAR" that was there for big Sam v Everton...i thought we had come back...it can happen...will take miracles, but those who still go deserve it....and will enjoy it so much when it happens....we need to stick together...asc Coleman says 46000 havnt suddenly disappearedI am 58 yrs old. I saw my first match 50 years ago. Have been an exile for 30 years. Coming back to UK this year. Footballing wise, the worst time to come back I know. We have won one real trophy in that 50 years. But loads and loads of great memories, and the club has enriched my life to a monumental degree. No need to dwell on the individual moments, you all know what they are. Not trophy-laden then, but there was always hope - whether in old Div1/Premier, or the lower tiers - that it would not take that much to make us successful. But it appears that without a huge injection of cash, that seems far away now. It could take many years to get back to a position where we can challenge again, if it happens at all.
I check these pages every day, a lot of gallows humour, and a lot of anger. Rightly so. I am not pointing the finger in this post, too many others for that. I just wanted to explore the great sadness that so many people will feel at the moment. Those that have followed the club for decades, those a lot younger. It is the lowest ebb. Far worse than Lawrie Mac days.
For someone like me, who is getting on now, it is bitter-sweet. We have experienced the highs and the lows. We have also experienced what life has to throw at us, and know that time runs fast. Football as the years go by becomes less important. It's just the way it is. Other things to worry about. And for sanity's sake, it would be suicidal to keep worrying about the club, when you have yourself, family and friends to think/worry about. But there is no denying the sickness in the stomach when the mind currently turns to SAFC. One of the most important things in my life is going down the drain, and there seems no way out of it.
Sorry for the depressive nature of this post, I am normally a positive guy when it comes to SAFC. Coleman gives us some hope, but he is not a miracle worker. I just hope someone buys out Short sooner rather than later. With the cash to save us.
Good luck at Boro lads. Fans and team.
This in a nutshell.
Football has eaten itself and its not the game i grew up watching.
Even last night liverpool were fetching 2 subs on. They were just like clones. Same build, hair,shape everything.
Footballers used to be all shapes and sizes. Now there carrots. Broad shoulders tiny little waist and legs.
Tgey look the same play the same act the same.
No charisma. No charm.
I gave up going years ago and i dont miss it one bit