John Hall and SAFC


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And Bobby Robson is from Langley Park where, and am sure LangleyParkMackem will back me up here, everyone is Sunderland.

Also, Gazza never went to one Mag game as a fan.
 
And Bobby Robson is from Langley Park where, and am sure LangleyParkMackem will back me up here, everyone is Sunderland..

That would be have been correct going back to when Bobby Robson was a lad & footballer. But in 1992 things around Durham changed dramatically & it became awash with plastic geordies who had their heads turned by the KK revolution & all the media coverage they got.

It is probably 50/50 now.
 
That would be have been correct going back to when Bobby Robson was a lad & footballer. But in 1992 things around Durham changed dramatically & it became awash with plastic geordies who had their heads turned by the KK revolution & all the media coverage they got.

It is probably 50/50 now.

Aye, so when he was a kid, he had no choice but to follow us. Dunno why he made such a thing of always being a Mag when he went there, was never going to hold water. Still, decent bloke but no one is allowed to question him now.
 
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 hate the bastard but that's not strictly true, the rink was fucked regardless
 
I hate the bastard but that's not strictly true, the rink was fucked regardless

True but he stuck the boot in.

He hated any successful sports team in the region outside Newcastle.

Absolute (unt of a bloke
 
John Hall made nearly as much outta the Mags as Freddie Shepard. Shepard screwed them royally and if Ashley had actually gone through due diligence, they would be a Leeds case because he wouldn't have touched them. No one would have if the books were examined properly. Ashley saved the club albeit due to a completely out of character business mistake and is currently trying to get his investment back-hence their transfer policy.
 
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.

If the rink had still been there Durham would be a lot worse of a place now though.
 
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.

He used to live on the terrace i grew up on, family member sold the house to him and a bessie mate lived in the house after they moved.

My dad always said he tried to buy us/ get on the board but Cowie I think kept him out.
 
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