Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton

Cack Stottie

Cack Stottie

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Morning everyone

Thought this might be of interest - a chat with Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton

Anyone remember seeing him play?

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Interview: Catching up with former Sunderland midfielder Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton!

Whar was it like being a young player coming through at Sunderland during the early seventies? Our Kelvin caught up with a man who was right in the thick of it — Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton.
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Cack Stottie said:
Morning everyone

Thought this might be of interest - a chat with Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton

Anyone remember seeing him play?

rokerreport.sbnation.com

Interview: Catching up with former Sunderland midfielder Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton!

Whar was it like being a young player coming through at Sunderland during the early seventies? Our Kelvin caught up with a man who was right in the thick of it — Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton.
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A really good read, thanks for posting. I must have seen him play a few games, as he was an exciting very young prospect at the time. No clear memories of him though unfortunately, but what players we had in those days.
 
WildinHetton said:
Saw him score the winner v PNE 4-3, when he was very young. In the RE with my Dad, winner was scored at that end. He was very young 16 or 17.
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I was there unbelievable game,he scored the winner If my memory is correct.
Johnny on the spot said:
Not in this game. We were 3-1 up at half-time (Richie Pitt then a Dennis Tueart brace). PNE pulled it back to 3-3. Hamilton was introduced as sub for Brian Chambers on 80 mins. He scored the winner on 85, attacking the Roker End, where I was standing. Seven goal thriller!
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Diving header I think
 
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Yes, scored the winner off the bench as a kid, he was probably our first super sub.

He didn’t really fulfil any promise, there was probably a lot of pressure on him after such a great start.
 
Hobgoblin said:
I was at that game think we were losing 1-3 iirc 🤔
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It was the Burnley 4-3, later in the season, in which we came back from 3-1 down.

I was at Jimmy’s debut and after the game when he scored his goal on debut, it was straight to the SAFCSA shop (probably served by George Forster) on the Roker End to get a black n white portrait photo of him, to go with the rest of the squad.

Happy days !
 
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Eggman said:
It was the Burnley 4-3, later in the season, in which we came back from 3-1 down.

I was at Jimmy’s debut and after the game when he scored his goal on debut, it was straight to the SAFCSA shop (probably served by George Forster) on the Roker End to get a black n white portrait photo of him, to go with the rest of the squad.

Happy days !
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I used to love that shop, went in there as often as I could afford to lol. I remember that Burnley game too, was it Good Friday? I did something that day that i've never done since (apart from Southampton away but we were 7 nil down at the time) and that is I left really early, could have been 20 mins before the end of the match when we were 3 v 1 down. Think we scored as just we got out of the fulwell end and we didn't go back in. It's haunted me to this day :mad:
 
Cack Stottie said:
Morning everyone

Thought this might be of interest - a chat with Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton

Anyone remember seeing him play?

rokerreport.sbnation.com

Interview: Catching up with former Sunderland midfielder Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton!

Whar was it like being a young player coming through at Sunderland during the early seventies? Our Kelvin caught up with a man who was right in the thick of it — Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton.
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Great read that although i cannot remember him, and i was going to the matches then, probably my memory more than anything else.
 
Cack Stottie said:
Morning everyone

Thought this might be of interest - a chat with Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton

Anyone remember seeing him play?

rokerreport.sbnation.com

Interview: Catching up with former Sunderland midfielder Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton!

Whar was it like being a young player coming through at Sunderland during the early seventies? Our Kelvin caught up with a man who was right in the thick of it — Jimmy ‘Chico’ Hamilton.
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That's a great interview. Thanks for posting
 
WildinHetton said:
Saw him score the winner v PNE 4-3, when he was very young. In the RE with my Dad, winner was scored at that end. He was very young 16 or 17.
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I was in the kids enclosure in the Roker End hanging on to the fence in the front row. Not a comfortable way to watch a match and had to get down every now and again. Still remember the header.
 
I remember games from those days much clearer than games in current times!
He hadnt been on the pitch long when a cross came in from the right wing and he rose like a salmon at the back post to head in the winner at the Roker End.
Was at the Burnley 4-3 too later that season.
 
Eggman said:
It was the Burnley 4-3, later in the season, in which we came back from 3-1 down.

I was at Jimmy’s debut and after the game when he scored his goal on debut, it was straight to the SAFCSA shop (probably served by George Forster) on the Roker End to get a black n white portrait photo of him, to go with the rest of the squad.

Happy days !
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I was at the Burnley game too. Only just over 14k attended and there was even less at the PNE game earlier in the season. This time Dave Watson scored two, a collector's item from Keith Coleman and the winner from sub Billy Hughes. Two 4-3 wins in the same campaign, them were the days 😂.
 

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