Longest winning home run


Weren’t we the team if all talents then
Winning trophies buying the best Scottish players
Will we ever win the fa cup though?
You are right, that is exactly the same as an oil nation buying up top talent across the world, paying them obscene amounts of money to sit on the bench, or play in reserve teams, in most cases.
 
Best I can remember is the promotion season 75/76.

21 home games - we won 19 and drew against Bristol City and Bristol Rovers

However, we did lose at home to third division Palace in the FA Cup Quarter Finals.

Roker Park really was a fortress that season. We won the league despite our abysmal away record of

W5. D6. L10
Fantastic season. I remember sealing promotion (or was it the championship?) by beating Bolton at home on a sunny bank holiday Monday and there were 51,000 in the ground, the biggest crowd since the 3rd round FA cup replay against Man City in '73. There's no doubt how big a role the crowd played in those days, both in lifting the lads and intimidating opposition players.

An old friend of mine was mates with a lad who was a defender at Swindon Town. He told him that when we beat them at Roker Park in 1995 - one of Peter Reid's earliest matches - part of the reason was that when Sunderland started attacking him and his mates were so shocked at the noise from the crowd that they froze and lost concentration. That was in front of less than 17,000. Imagine what it must have been like for teams playing in front of 51,000 squeezed into Roker Park.

We can still create a fantastic home atmosphere but it's occasional now rather than being the norm. Nostalgia eh?...
 
Best I can remember is the promotion season 75/76.

21 home games - we won 19 and drew against Bristol City and Bristol Rovers

However, we did lose at home to third division Palace in the FA Cup Quarter Finals.

Roker Park really was a fortress that season. We won the league despite our abysmal away record of

W5. D6. L10
Quality season
 
Fantastic season. I remember sealing promotion (or was it the championship?) by beating Bolton at home on a sunny bank holiday Monday and there were 51,000 in the ground, the biggest crowd since the 3rd round FA cup replay against Man City in '73. There's no doubt how big a role the crowd played in those days, both in lifting the lads and intimidating opposition players.

An old friend of mine was mates with a lad who was a defender at Swindon Town. He told him that when we beat them at Roker Park in 1995 - one of Peter Reid's earliest matches - part of the reason was that when Sunderland started attacking him and his mates were so shocked at the noise from the crowd that they froze and lost concentration. That was in front of less than 17,000. Imagine what it must have been like for teams playing in front of 51,000 squeezed into Roker Park.

We can still create a fantastic home atmosphere but it's occasional now rather than being the norm. Nostalgia eh?...
Only lost 1 game at home the season before anarl, so a great couple of years.Promotion was sealed v Bolton, the title on the last day v Portsmouth I seem to remember
 
“Fantastic season. I remember sealing promotion (or was it the championship?) by beating Bolton at home on a sunny bank holiday Monday and there were 51,000 in the ground, the biggest crowd since the 3rd round FA cup replay against Man City in '73. There's no doubt how big a role the crowd played in those days, both in lifting the lads and intimidating opposition players.”

Aye, remember it well, bought our way out of Div 2, never thought we were that good as the following season proved.
 
“Fantastic season. I remember sealing promotion (or was it the championship?) by beating Bolton at home on a sunny bank holiday Monday and there were 51,000 in the ground, the biggest crowd since the 3rd round FA cup replay against Man City in '73. There's no doubt how big a role the crowd played in those days, both in lifting the lads and intimidating opposition players.”

Aye, remember it well, bought our way out of Div 2, never thought we were that good as the following season proved.
My first ever game that one v Bolton, still remember it though I've forgotten hundreds since! Also remember my dad saying " it's not always like this mind", he was correct but I was still hooked.
 
Best I can remember is the promotion season 75/76.

21 home games - we won 19 and drew against Bristol City and Bristol Rovers

However, we did lose at home to third division Palace in the FA Cup Quarter Finals.

Roker Park really was a fortress that season. We won the league despite our abysmal away record of

W5. D6. L10
75/76 was difficult for me to comprehend, how we could be so good at home but couldn't do it away. The Palace quarter was a sickener as the final beckoned when you looked at who else was still in it. We'd beaten eventual winners So'ton, but then again the semi & final wouldn't have been at RP.
 
75/76 was difficult for me to comprehend, how we could be so good at home but couldn't do it away. The Palace quarter was a sickener as the final beckoned when you looked at who else was still in it. We'd beaten eventual winners So'ton, but then again the semi & final wouldn't have been at RP.
Aye the 0-0 at Stoke and 2-1 replay victory in the fifth round followed by the home draw against third division Palace had us all thinking 73 was happens again.

Many of our fans are against signing Mags but Bobby Moncur was a rock for us that season. He played 39 of the 42 league games.
 
Sunderland hold the title of 24 successive home wins in a row dating back to the 1891/1892 season - was anybody other than Hank alive to witness it? PS - Man City have a chance to equal that on Saturday. A very impressive stat by the way that outweighs any attendance obsessive stat on here.
Well google is not the best anymore not since Covid so old information is difficult to retrieve
I remember me dad tell ing me this was circa 1960
he said sunderland went 72 home games with only one defeat circa 1891–95
and he was quite good at his knowledge about the lads
 
Aye the 0-0 at Stoke and 2-1 replay victory in the fifth round followed by the home draw against third division Palace had us all thinking 73 was happens again.

Many of our fans are against signing Mags but Bobby Moncur was a rock for us that season. He played 39 of the 42 league games.
The Stoke games were a good example, '73 mk2 was on I (+ many others) thought.

Signing Monica was the key to our promotion season, yes his legs had gone but his brain & experience helped us through a few games.
 
Well we held onto our record 😎

Yet some sources have Man city ( correctly) as the most " premier league" successive home wins , so does that mean league 1 history/ records are now wiped out ? are all records going to be most goals / points in a season in the "premiership " ,its as if the 1st division history / records are now eradicated ,in my opinion its wrong ...the 1st division became the premiership so the records should still stand .

now you have this....


and this.....

The pedantic amongst you will say yes but they say " premier"
league home wins ,but like i mentioned earlier the division one was the top division , the premiership is the top division so all records should stand.

You could go on and on ....Does Halland hold the record for goals in 1 season in the top division ? or Dixie Dean for Everton ?

In ten years time even if its called the Arab corrupt league of oil money its still " the English top division" and records should stand.

Or do we just have seperate records for the old "division one " and records for the" Premiership " ?

Yet commentators on sky will say Liverpool going for their "20th" title so include the old division records.

 

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