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Being racist?A few black former players were discussing racism on 5live recently, and while they said the London clubs were the worst, we also got a mention as being bad
Were we particularly bad?
I started in the 80s and everyone still called Gary Bennett midnight![]()
The most shocking bit of this thread is we've only had 3 different scorers in the league this season!My only experience with it was on a bus to West Brom a couple of seasons ago, 2 different Ameobi songs. All (3) of our league goalscorers this season are black so wonder how they cope with that.
I remember all the stuff that was flying around then, just not that particular reference to our Benno!He certainly was, and Chalky.
I don't think SAFC were ever as bad as the likes of Chelsea, Leeds and Newcastle.
But, there was some stick dished out and I can honestly say that however young and impressionable I was, it was never my thing.
Although bad enough, it was only ever a small minority and I can't remember an opposition player being really singled out for that sort of treatment. Mid-80s onwards was my time so can't comment on the '70s.
I remember. Christie his name was and didn't he punish us good and proper that day too?Remember walking toward Roker park circa 1979 we were playing Cambridge . All you could hear as I walked towards the ground was he's a @@@ a @@@ it's plain to see to see. I believe Cambridge had a black player
We were playing Birmingham at home 1993 time, lost 2-1,i was in the Mainstand Seats near the Roker End and near the end our lot started 'you're just a town full of ni****s' at the Brum fans this bearing in mind Don Goodman and Gary Bennett were on the pitch for us at the time,Don Goodman was stood arms outstretched looking to where it was coming from,that's the worst i can remember from our fans in my time.
Never seen a banana hoyed on the pitch at Roker, if your pre sky boy you couldn't say the sameI might have known we would be worse just because of the perceived classyness of SAFC bullshit. I grew up watching football in the 70s and 80s and I can say we were both as bad as each other simply due to ignorance and the North East not being a cosmopolitan area at all. Ours dissipated with us signing more and more black players, but it's a well known fact that when Peter Reid was there SAFC had a racial element inside the club no black players hardly. Whether that was Reid is yet to be known. You still get the racist idiots at both clubs too just look at that idiot who abused Lukaku or the clowns who abused Darren Bents mum
Remember this well. The Birmingham fans were in the 'big corner' and it came from the main stand wing seats.
I was hardly the most politically correct person at the time, but this took it too far..
I remember. Christie his name was and didn't he punish us good and proper that day too?
Spot on mate,there was lads round us singing it but I couldn't help looking at Don Goodman and thinking WTF are they doing.
It continued when we played them the following season as it riled the Birmingham fans the season before.
Was in the clockstand for the Villa cup game and their left back Bryan Small got dogs abuse, he was letting the crowd know he was on two grand a week which made it worse..
I've mentioned this before and some weirdo said it never happened, no doubt he'll be back along to tell me again..
Well there's two of us who heard it so he's up against it like!!
Never seen a banana hoyed on the pitch at Roker, if your pre sky boy you couldn't say the same
Yes you are rightHaha, I'd forgot that - classic moment that was. If it's the game I'm thinking of we got our two goals late on, and frankly we could of lost 10-0. Dalglish master class iirc
My father, not a very nice man, was typical of the ignorance of the 70's. On our annual summer trip to Minehead we would always cut through Chapeltown Leeds (didn't know it at the time but was before the M1 connected to M62). After being silent since we left East Herrington he would suddenly come alive with a hail of racial abuse whilst sniggering to himself. In front of his kids aged 8/9
He was a pit worker, and no doubt conversations about black people would always descend to this with his "mates", can see why it was the same at football.
Shameful really.