How has your life been affected by the decline and fall of SAFC?


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Bothers me the older i get...which when i look at other posters is odd...dont like seing me kids(6ft fower!!) suffer what we have...feel a tiny bit responsible for making them lads fans and suffer...

Thats what kind of makes me be positive, that thousands will be very emotional(nearly said cry but i would be deemed a soft twat) when we get a degree of success...hope its while i can still see the pitch!

Hell, the amount of times I've felt like crying on my way home from games in the quest for success especially when we've been so close then shot ourselves in the foot
 
Puts me in a bad mood for a while when we are beaten by the likes of f***ing Barnsley at home
Can’t accept us being as shit as we are - we’ve never been great in my lifetime but the current set up is f***ing rank
We are better than this as a club & will bounce back
Let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later
KTF
 
Truthfully not at all, 13 years ago it would have probably have consumed me and have me raging, now, while I admit a rare win lifts me and puts a smile on me face, other than a second of disappointment I no longer let the losses and the dire state our club is in affect my life at all
 
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.

great post that mate.
 
I hate the whole club. I hate every player barring the youths, they are either sub standard or couldn’t give a shit.
They don’t care. Not one single player inspires any kind of hope or fight.
Coleman has come in and is possibly the only reason I may preserve , I keep seeing people say, they don’t care why should I? And I’m not sure why I should?
The other part of me is raging that as a fan base we are becoming so apathetic we are just sleep walking to oblivion, not just league 1.

I’m furiously not bothered about the shithouses

I agree, but until the club has a clearout of the crap we've accrued over the years we'll continue the sleepwalk so hopefully CC can sort that, and I think he might be
 
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.
It hasn't at all. I'm 41 not 14
 
Puts me in a bad mood, makes my phone calls to my mam a bit depressing, generally makes me a bit less interested in football. On a positive note, I can watch the Premier League fairly objectively and pick a fantasy team without having to shoe horn one of our players into my squad.
 
Supporting SAFC isn't for sissies...any dickhead can support Man City! If you support Sunderland than you're a real fan and deserve better than what you're getting!!!
Mind i met Man City season ticket holders in Highfield Hotel bar (Houghton Le Spring) before their recent game with Mags ..bus load of em....all ages...lads i know are from holidays where i have met and become friends from round pool in Spain over years, returning again and again(they are similar age ...mid fifties to me and also went into the third division years ago like us)....now this may sound very strange given our current predicament ...but although they enjoy battering everyone, especially United, the older ones in a strange way dont like the "new fans", money and constantly talk about when they were shite rather than how good they are now...they can very much relate to SAFC, loved our Poznan at Uniteds expense and you get the feeling City now is not their club as it was when they struggled...funny how us old buggers see things !..
 
Puts me in a bad mood for a while when we are beaten by the likes of f***ing Barnsley at home
Can’t accept us being as shit as we are - we’ve never been great in my lifetime but the current set up is f***ing rank
We are better than this as a club & will bounce back
Let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later
KTF

We are much better as a club than what we have to handle now but I fear CC needs financial backing from Short that may not be released.
 
I’m praying he can, I just think he needs that many players to make it happen it may be too much.

Which is where Short hopefully comes in to support his "investment". We need several reliable players in key positions to move forward so that depends on what CC requests and who he can get hold of.
 
Agree
Looks like he has to use any income from sales - that won’t be much as there’s little stock in what we have

Hopefully he can persuade Short to back him because there isn't (prospectively) a large amount of cash to be accrued from what we have left?
 
Been going since 1984 I'm 47 now and tbh defeats bother me for about 10 minutes these days.

I'm a bit sickened by football the last few years the transfer fees and money in the game are crazy.

Footballs a buisness these days not a sport

I haven't renewed this season and even if we had of stopped up I still wouldn't have renewed I've just got bored of it all. I've been offered tickets for games thus season but turned most of them down

Can't see me ever going back on a regular basis as the buzz has gone unfortunately
 
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