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


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I think for me, football changed just at the right time
I've got other things to do on weekends these days
Roker Park was special. The SOL never was. Not for me (I've no problem at all if it is for you - in fact, I hope it is)
The money is mad, and the players don't have the link with the fans
The club doesn't have a link with the fans. Its not our club anymore
And just to put a wrap around it - we've been utterly shit for nearly 10 years, so much so that there's just no excitement in going to the games.

To be totally honest, I'll always be Sunderland through and through - but my days of being involved are over.
 
October '66 v West Ham was my 1st game, and unsurprisingly we lost 4-2. Only went to see the World Cup winners Hurst, Peters and Moore, and them wearing an away strip which I like to this day, if my memory serves me well was the two claret vertical stripes on sky blue base. I can't remember if we were shite, the atmosphere somehow got to me, and I fell in love. Now, it's the worst bitch I've ever met.

That won't leave me alone...

That haunts me....
 
Support Sunderland, involved as a volunteer with Alnwick Town.

Both bottom, lose regularly.

I honestly can't remember the last time both won on the same weekend.

The results put me down a bit, but after a while you just kind of get used to it.

The one thing that I'm just struggling to get my head around is the possibility that the bairn might not want to support Sunderland. He's too young to know any different yet, but last weekend I got 45 minutes out of him, 2nd half no interest, and I can't blame him because it was shite. It's exactly what my Dad will have went through with me.

My Dad first took me to Roker in the 2nd Division. As much as I enjoyed Roker, my cousin supported Liverpool so I went down that route as well. It wasn't until I was about 12 that the Liverpool interest went and I just went with Sunderland.

Trying to think of a way to end this post, and it's something I've told plenty people in the real world. Teams get promoted, teams get relegated. We have no god given right to be at the top. We're currently on a down, but we will go back up eventually. Those that we may noy like player wise will eventually move on. Keep the faith.
 
I think for me, football changed just at the right time
I've got other things to do on weekends these days
Roker Park was special. The SOL never was. Not for me (I've no problem at all if it is for you - in fact, I hope it is)
The money is mad, and the players don't have the link with the fans
The club doesn't have a link with the fans. Its not our club anymore

And just to put a wrap around it - we've been utterly shit for nearly 10 years, so much so that there's just no excitement in going to the games.

To be totally honest, I'll always be Sunderland through and through - but my days of being involved are over.

Agreed, same here, connection lost
 
I think for me, football changed just at the right time
I've got other things to do on weekends these days
Roker Park was special. The SOL never was. Not for me (I've no problem at all if it is for you - in fact, I hope it is)
The money is mad, and the players don't have the link with the fans
The club doesn't have a link with the fans. Its not our club anymore
And just to put a wrap around it - we've been utterly shit for nearly 10 years, so much so that there's just no excitement in going to the games.

To be totally honest, I'll always be Sunderland through and through - but my days of being involved are over.

Spot on. I can't even be arsed to make the 100 mile trip to the SOL. If I am honest, I can't even name some of the players never mind who we are playing next.

I only remember there is footy on if I am in the car.

Shame as my son's room is red and white with his first strip mounted on the wall. I'd be up for child cruelty taking him to SAFC.
 
I really do hope that some of the players actually read through these posts to see and understand the misery it adds to the fans, fans who have followed the club for decades, If I was a professional footballer reading through these posts, I would feel absolutely ashamed.
 
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.
My lad is 11 now and absolutely loves going, he knows we're shit but never turns down a game ,albeit we mainly go to away games and a handful at home. I asked his mate and his dad (they like Man Utd)to come to forest and they loved it ,they want to come again.his mate told him this morning that he doesn't want to support Man Utd anymore as its boring! I've been going as much as I can for 30 years and to be honest I don't think I'll stop
 
Spot on. I can't even be arsed to make the 100 mile trip to the SOL. If I am honest, I can't even name some of the players never mind who we are playing next.
I only remember there is footy on if I am in the car.
Shame as my son's room is red and white with his first strip mounted on the wall. I'd be up for child cruelty taking him to SAFC.
Mind, for all I've said - if I'd had a son rather than a daughter, I'd be dead excited about taking him to the match, and watching him have all the fun I did when I was younger.
 
makes working with mags all week long a bit shitter, not that it ever really was enjoyable. theres a general feeling around home games that we are beaten before a ball is kicked. numb to losing matches. sickening seeing the league.
 
makes working with mags all week long a bit shitter, not that it ever really was enjoyable. theres a general feeling around home games that we are beaten before a ball is kicked. numb to losing matches. sickening seeing the league.

Even the Mags I work with have stopped taking the piss now.
However my SAFC mug has now been given the term “The Vanarama mug” whenever a brew is made.
 
Barely, tbh, due to a combination of factors. Getting older and less willing to put up with shite, realising that you have a dislike of most of the players that verges on hatred (not many of the current lot though, they're hardly to blame), distance meaning I can't really get to games, and the realisation that football has changed and we're seen as mugs to be bled dry. Having to pay to listen on the radio was the final straw really. these days I keep an eye on it when I can but it's not a priority and it in no way spoils my weekend the way it used to.

I do not dislike any of the players (all right Roswell).. they often try their best, but they are simply not good enough.. not their fault.. it' all down to Short atm.. make do and mend is not going to cut it... the worst team in over 50+ years.
 
I really do hope that some of the players actually read through these posts to see and understand the misery it adds to the fans, fans who have followed the club for decades, If I was a professional footballer reading through these posts, I would feel absolutely ashamed.

They won’t give a fuck mate !!
 
Even the Mags I work with have stopped taking the piss now.
However my SAFC mug has now been given the term “The Vanarama mug” whenever a brew is made.

aye, true. thats even worse!

I do not dislike any of the players (all right Roswell).. they often try their best, but they are simply not good enough.. not their fault.. it' all down to Short atm.. make do and mend is not going to cut it... the worst team in over 50+ years.

Jones, O Shea, Gibson, Cattermole, Oviedo, Vaughan, McManaman, Ndong, Kone, Wilson ??? set of f***ing scum bags
 
It’s not being in the championship that bothers me - most of my life we’ve either been in the 2nd tier or yo-yoing between the top flight and the second one.

But in most of that time we’ve been competitive but not recently.

Let’s face it since Bruce fluked a tenth place finish we’ve been a struggling side. That’s year after year of watching us scrape through season after season winning about half a dozen games (and most of them in late flurries in April /May).

How anyone can have a go at our support who have had to endure year on year of abject failure is beyond me.

I think unless Coleman pulls a few rabbits out of a hat this month, relegation will be the final straw for another swathe of supporters for whom it will be the end.

As plenty have said on this thread once you stop going it becomes habit forming.
 
Just wish I wasn't so into football, because it is so depressing following this lot. Seen our teams who would always give 100%, but sorry this lot:rolleyes:.
How the hell can these players turn up and give half arsed performances. I've always grafted hard for my money and to hear of some of this shower don't even want to play for their employers and us the fans, who pay their wages. Just wish it was it was all a bad dream.
 
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