John Hall and SAFC


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Story I heared was
We were playing Norwich in the cup back in the 60s & before the match a black cat walked into our dressing room. we won the game the players thought it brought us luck & that's how we came known as the black cats

In a book I've got somewhere
 
Story I heared was
We were playing Norwich in the cup back in the 60s & before the match a black cat walked into our dressing room. we won the game the players thought it brought us luck & that's how we came known as the black cats

In a book I've got somewhere

cough cough !

I bet you are wondering where the fuck your post has gone on the black cats thread
 
I'll never forgive him for buying the wasps, thus dooming Durhams rink and robbing us of the big blue machine.

Of course, this might not be historically accurate, but I was only a young 'un at the time.
 
I'll never forgive him for buying the wasps, thus dooming Durhams rink and robbing us of the big blue machine.

Of course, this might not be historically accurate, but I was only a young 'un at the time.

Staunch Thatcherite wasn't he, didn't the Tories give him his knighthood?
 
Ballast Wiltshier, the contractors who built the SOL used to do most of Hall's property developments including the Metro Centre (under a previous name, Rush & Tompkins) when they tendered the contract for the SOL they had to check with him that he wouldn't be too pissed off with them and not give them any further work if they won it. Made no difference in the end as they went bust a couple of years later.
 
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.

Robson is on the 93-4 end of season video speaking at armstrongs testimonial saying how he supported us...
 
That's true. Bob Murray chased him off.

Funny story is that Reynolds had been constantly shunned when asking for a place on the board by Uncle Bob and eventually turned up with a bag of cash (can't recall how much but tens of thousands) to try to do the deal 'there and then'

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Ex SAFC director told me exactly the same story about Sir Bobby, always said he was a Sunderland fan and he used to go to our games until he was too ill to attend, alas.
 
Very true . He was red and white . My Dad was involved in business with some of John Halls close friends and this often cropped up in conversation.
There are lots of true redand whites in the Ashington area and presumbaly the link comes from there . Also true about Bobby Robson , I , with others , talked to him c 1970 at the Seaburn Hotel . He was also very much linked with the Sunderland job not long before Sir Bob Stokoe came . Articles in theJournal around that time .
 
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I'll never forgive him for buying the wasps, thus dooming Durhams rink and robbing us of the big blue machine.

Of course, this might not be historically accurate, but I was only a young 'un at the time.

This. Absolutely hate the (unt.
 
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