"I was there" SAFC matches


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I was there, nowt but a bairn, at my first ever away match, family holiday in London, when we got stuffed 8-0 at West Ham, Geoff Hurst scored 6 of the buggers himself.

Mind, I was also there when, reasonably cronological:-

The lads carried King Charlie on their shoulders to celebrate our first ever promotion 1963/64.

Same season as above when an estimated 100,000 were in and and around Roker Park for the Man Utd cup replay.

Slim Jim Baxter left me breathless in his early days for us.

Defied all the odds and went on that glorious run and only won the FA Cup beating the durty bastard Leeds, who were thought to be the best team in Europe at the time.

Charlie's (Ferguson) Angels, Lord Rowell, Shaun Elliot and Kevin Arlott nearly saved us from relegation. Fuck you Jimmy Hill.

John Hawley scored the best Sunderland goal I have ever seen. Who else ever beat Pat Jennings from 40 yards ffs.

When we all went daft at Wrexham thinking we were promoted.

Benno made Speedie shit his pants.

Marco and Gatesy showed the maggots what for.

I'm kinda losing it now, however:-

That Gordon Armsrong header.

The Reid era.

Kiss ya granny Marcus Stewart.

The god that is Niall Quinn.

See the thing is that although SAFC don't live in the world that my Dad and Granda's knew them in, it's in our blood and SAFC continue to produce defining moments that keep the faith alive. We don't have hangers on like Man U, Liverpool and so on. Our club is ours, it's about nothing more than close to home. They frustrate us but things happen from time to time to bond us.

Sunlun till I die.

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Got beat off Everton 4-1 at Goodison in the Zenith Data Systems cup, there were only about 200 of us there.
 
Got beat off Everton 4-1 at Goodison in the Zenith Data Systems cup, there were only about 200 of us there.

I was at that. A grand total of 4,609 rattling about inside Goodison. Cottee got all 4 IIRC.

I was also at Cambridge in the Anglo Fuckin Italian Cup a couple of years later.

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Me and my boys were among the few left when Mart Poom equalised at Derby after Ian Taylor put them 1-0 up on 90 mins. There'll be thousands say they stayed but the truth was it was pretty empty
 
Halloween 2010, I was there. :cool:

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I was there Boxing Day when Lord Gary Rowell smacked the maggots for a hat trick.

I was there when Marco and Gatesy destroyed the maggots in the play-off 2nd leg.

I was there when Mickey Gray passed to Julio Arca, who passed to Alex Rae, who passed it back to Julio, who passed it back to Mickey rampaging down the wing, who then put over a juicy cross tailor made for the god that is Niall Quinn. The god Quinn delivered as only he could, Given beaten, ball in the back of the net, 2-1 Sunderland for the 2nd season on the bounce.

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I was there when Chris Makin scored.

So was I, as was the poster 'Martin Smith Son Of Pele' off here. Except that he'd got so slaughtered that when Makin scored, he was fast asleep in his seat. :lol:

Was also at both 2-1s at ASDA, both great for different reasons, but the monsoon match I hadn't started wearing contact lenses back then and could barely see a thing through the rain on my glasses.
 
I was there at Wigan away in 2005. Around Feb or March IIRC, and a midweek game. Wigan were our main rivals for promotion and the match was a geniune six pointer. I got to the ground and saw that they'd given us 7,000 or so tickets. As soon as I saw how many SAFC were there, and before a ball was kicked, I thought there and then "that's it, we've won this match, which means we've won the Championship".
 
Me and my boys were among the few left when Mart Poom equalised at Derby after Ian Taylor put them 1-0 up on 90 mins. There'll be thousands say they stayed but the truth was it was pretty empty

We were at the end of the row, about 4 rows from the back and can't remember any great numbers leaving.
 
Derby was 5-0 in August 1993? Sorry to be pedantic. The SAFC fan threw his shirt at Butcher?

me and 3 mates were in the derby end when the 5th one went in we walked on to the trackside round past the corner flag and in to the the end behind the goal and straight out the exit .... no one stopped us or said anything .. strange.
 
Burnley away 1978

9 man Sunderland won 2-1
Loved that game- both full backs sent off; remember the following away game too- got beat 3-2 off Sheff utd(or was it just sabella)- they sung animals as though Sunderland were some sort of clogger team
 
My sister told me we had won 8-0 and I believed her:lol:

My dad was in Sunderland General recovering from a broken leg. He would have been at the match otherwise as he went home and away back then. Anyway his mate visited him on the Sunday and gave him a box of chocolates but insisted that he open them after he left. Was a box of After 8's!

You jammy get. As a lad the same age it was f***ing murder in the Anfield Road End...Good match mind

Never been in such a crush. Was 13 at the time, ended up with my head jammed in between a fat ladies sweaty knockers. She wasn't wearing a bra so i had to fight off a raging hard on as well as try to stay on my feet and avoid a heart attack whenever Liverpool ventured into our half. Memorable game to say the least.

Tranmere away - Last game of the season. think it was 95-96. We got promoted and the Mags lost PL to Man U.
Remember a big traffic jam in the Mersey Tunnel with Sunderland fans running up and down.
We stopped for a pint just outside of Leeds on the way back - Fickling came in first with his family then the team bus stopped and the players came in. Good piss up.

Got brayed over the head with a chair in a curry house in Manchester that night. Was an altercation between City and United fans - City got relegated that day, United won the league at Boro - hell on in Manchester all night.

Loved that game- both full backs sent off; remember the following away game too- got beat 3-2 off Sheff utd(or was it just sabella)- they sung animals as though Sunderland were some sort of clogger team

Was at both of those games. Sabella was unplayable at Sheff Utd that day. Leighton James acting himself at Burnley - was the King of the Worky Ticket's.

A couple of other classics that may or may not have been mentioned:

Gillingham away in the play off, awful
Tranmere away, the game was called off, it was marked down as home win on the coupon so Denis Smith was sacked on the Monday. Harsh?
Plymouth away, won 4-2, a rare good day out during the Lawrie Mac era.

Yes i was at luton when we clinched the championship, invite only and i got one ! ...but we still had fans in every stand that bank holiday weekend :cool:

Was there when away supporters were completely banned in 90/91 season. Had about 800 other red n whites keeping me company:lol:
 
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