John Hall and SAFC


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That Bob Murray thread got me thinking about John Hall.

Is it true he was an SAFC season ticket holder? Did he really want to buy us/invest in us?
 
He tried to get on the board here didnt he, wasnt able to so later went up the road is what i was always told.

I tthought he had corporate tickets,so it was a business thing rather than personal and I'm sure he tried to buy us.

Didn't Douglas have a connection with Thornhill too?I never really understood how that came about.
 
Hall had a private box at Roker Park when his sprog went to Thornhill and supported Sunderland. Years later in an article in the Sunday Sun he said "it wasn't easy being a. Newcastle supporter and going to school in Sunderland" and said he got bullied. The Lying ****.
 
Not sure about either tbh, always thought they had the whiff of urban myth about them. Like Bobby Robson supporting us.

Well, he might have been a Newcastle supporter but came to Sunderland games on a regular basis towards the end of his life. Sure he was the kind who actually wanted us to do well.
 
Sir John Hall lived in a house next to Thornhill School, went to Sunderland games all the time,
Sir Bobby Robson when Manager of Porto brought the team to Sunderland for Gordon Armstrongs testimonial, at a dinner for Gordon at the Chiltern Lodge Hotel Sir Bobby stated that he was a Sunderland supporter to all of us who were on his top table, when asked later in a audience question session who he supported he again said the same thing,
Asked why he didn't join Sunderland as manager when approached he said " it was the right job at the wrong time".
Anyone who was there can vouch for this.
 
Sir John Hall lived in a house next to Thornhill School, went to Sunderland games all the time,
Sir Bobby Robson when Manager of Porto brought the team to Sunderland for Gordon Armstrongs testimonial, at a dinner for Gordon at the Chiltern Lodge Hotel Sir Bobby stated that he was a Sunderland supporter to all of us who were on his top table, when asked later in a audience question session who he supported he again said the same thing,
Asked why he didn't join Sunderland as manager when approached he said " it was the right job at the wrong time".
Anyone who was there can vouch for this.

Doesn't bobby robson's brother run the Langley park safc branch ;)
 
Sir John Hall lived in a house next to Thornhill School, went to Sunderland games all the time,
Sir Bobby Robson when Manager of Porto brought the team to Sunderland for Gordon Armstrongs testimonial, at a dinner for Gordon at the Chiltern Lodge Hotel Sir Bobby stated that he was a Sunderland supporter to all of us who were on his top table, when asked later in a audience question session who he supported he again said the same thing,
Asked why he didn't join Sunderland as manager when approached he said " it was the right job at the wrong time".
Anyone who was there can vouch for this.

I think that's that put to bed then.

John Hall was definitely a Sunderland supporter but I get the impression he wanted all of the teams in the NE to do well. It'll have been the same with Robson.
 
He still goes to our matches, I saw him after a match last season in the car park. Looks really frail now, I didn'd shed too many tears.
 
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