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Man C v SAFC, NUFC v Hull May 1991

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super ally said:
This really is a very humorous thread. I can feel the squirming.

Clearly none for the mags know that Ian Dovaston is a very very MLF:lol::lol:
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Rottie said:
I had to check if it was the same Ian Dovaston tbh. He must have been only 19 or 20 when he wrote that and he is indeed a MLF.
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Is he really? I can't remember him being a MLF. Man Utd fan I think. He would've been 24 when he wrote that. Lived round the corner from @Chesterladmackem
 

Amaw said:
It is cringy as fuck like, even when we did it, and even changed it for the cancer thing. You only don't think it's cringy as you were the piss takers. Yes buying a ticket for your match is cringy as fuck too.
There is no difference between any set of fans, those that think they are better are just arse ends imo
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It's beyond cringy mate, it's f***ing dangerous. Idiots. Shit thing is they'd very likely get someone else into bother.
 
Amaw said:
It is cringy as fuck like, even when we did it, and even changed it for the cancer thing. You only don't think it's cringy as you were the piss takers. Yes buying a ticket for your match is cringy as fuck too.
There is no difference between any set of fans, those that think they are better are just arse ends imo
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Used in bad taste and a fair few of your fans were disgusted with

Log Off and get back to licking those windows the won't clean themselves
 
Shelley Levine said:
I was at both of those two NUFC games. The first bunking off school and travelling down in a car from Newcastle with my brother and two Liverpool fans. From Northumberland too, think they had season tickets. Bars weren’t open all day I remember but it was no problem. Eye-opening day and the first time I’d heard the word ‘Munichs’. Anyhow, it was great.

Fast to Spurs away, travelled down from
Norwich as was studying there, met the lads at Kings Cross for drink, and then on to Seven Sisters. Very rough, crushes were mental in the ground, thankfully was upstairs in the old away end. Loads of battling before and after.

Ended up on the Tennant Super on the National Express back to Norwich.

Good support both days I’m pleased to report. Actually, f***ing brilliant support.
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To say Newcastle didn't have a big, vocal following, written about by journalists, is strange.
 
A couple of extracts from the report of our game at Man City in The Journal on the same day:

"Sunderland's adventurous, but inexperienced side may have finished second bottom of the First Division, but their fanatical fans have taken the top flight by storm. Their unrelenting fervency in the face of a display as uninspired as Saturday's suggests that they take as much pride in being recognised as the Football League's best away supporters as they do in their team's achievements. That is the only logical conclusion to draw from the quite staggering fanaticism that induced 15,000 Sunderland devotees to cross the Pennines for a survival bid that has looked increasingly unlikely since the goalless draws with Wimbledon and Arsenal. Sunderland's incredible away following can be gauged from the fact that Saturday's Wearside-boosted attendance of 39,194 was nearly 3,000 up on the gate for City's Manchester derby with United in October. And, significantly, it was more than 15,000 better than City attracted for the visit of Derby County, the First Division's other relegated club, in their last home game. The gulf in support between Sunderland and Luton Town, the club most of the First Division wanted relegated, was summed up by Saturday's pitiful 12,889 crowd at Kenilworth Road. But in the final analysis, not even their soul-stirring supporters could will Sunderland to survival..."

"The story of Sunderland's season has been one of squandered leads and exhuberant supporters. And the last act was to be no different. Sunderland only departed the First Division stage after their incredible fans had demanded they took a bow, fully 30 minutes after the match had finished. Their discarded chant of "Staying Up... staying up... staying up" was quickly adapted to "Going up... going up... going up...", as Maine Road shook to its very foundations. The chastening experience of the last nine months could well ensure that in a year's time Sunderland supporters again have the First Division team they deserve."

The Journal, Monday 13 May 1991.
 
nandos sonic sauce said:
Attention, and stalking is 2 different things. The odd thing is, you come on a SAFC forum to try to get your point across :lol: I'd piss myeslf laughing at yous going down. I've done it before, and i'd do it again. You wouldn't get me trawling a Mag forum mind, and you certainly wouldn't get me turning up/ threatening to turn up to support a team playing against you. I'll cheer them on, but yous go to some queer lengths :lol: I may be wrong, but i am sure i seen one of you lot on here with contributar next to his username :lol:
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Exactly this, never posted on a mag forum or even wanted to for that matter, this place is infested with them.

Would never go to their ground either, or want to unless we were playing
 
JTF said:
A couple of extracts from the report of our game at Man City in The Journal on the same day:

"Sunderland's adventurous, but inexperienced side may have finished second bottom of the First Division, but their fanatical fans have taken the top flight by storm. Their unrelenting fervency in the face of a display as uninspired as Saturday's suggests that they take as much pride in being recognised as the Football League's best away supporters as they do in their team's achievements. That is the only logical conclusion to draw from the quite staggering fanaticism that induced 15,000 Sunderland devotees to cross the Pennines for a survival bid that has looked increasingly unlikely since the goalless draws with Wimbledon and Arsenal. Sunderland's incredible away following can be gauged from the fact that Saturday's Wearside-boosted attendance of 39,194 was nearly 3,000 up on the gate for City's Manchester derby with United in October. And, significantly, it was more than 15,000 better than City attracted for the visit of Derby County, the First Division's other relegated club, in their last home game. The gulf in support between Sunderland and Luton Town, the club most of the First Division wanted relegated, was summed up by Saturday's pitiful 12,889 crowd at Kenilworth Road. But in the final analysis, not even their soul-stirring supporters could will Sunderland to survival..."

"The story of Sunderland's season has been one of squandered leads and exhuberant supporters. And the last act was to be no different. Sunderland only departed the First Division stage after their incredible fans had demanded they took a bow, fully 30 minutes after the match had finished. Their discarded chant of "Staying Up... staying up... staying up" was quickly adapted to "Going up... going up... going up...", as Maine Road shook to its very foundations. The chastening experience of the last nine months could well ensure that in a year's time Sunderland supporters again have the First Division team they deserve."

The Journal, Monday 13 May 1991.
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It was a great time to follow the Lads, some wonderful memories.
 
Rottie said:
says so here
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Hmmm pretty certain he was a Man U fan. His younger brother supported us, long time ago but I'm certain we went to Roker when we played Man U, might've been the Walker hat trick game, and we stood in the fulwell and he, for reasons known to himself, went in the Clock Stand paddock cos he didn't want to be next to us :D
 
Reiver said:
It was a great time to follow the Lads, some wonderful memories.
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Two of my all-time favourite seasons following SAFC were the Third Division season in 87-88 and the First Division relegation season in 90-91. Went to loads of away games in both seasons and loved pretty much all of them - almost regardless of the result.

To today's supporters, that probably seems bizarre but being a Sunderland supporter runs deeper than what division we play in, where we are in the league etc. Its a fundamental part of your life, your memories, its ingrained in your very being.

Players, managers, chairmen, owners come and go. What makes/made SAFC special was the supporters - nothing else.

Must admit that I'm long since retired in terms of away games but what I see at the home games and on here I don't recognise that same loyalty and strength of character that seemed to exist amongst our supporters back in the 70s/80s/90s.

Or maybe I'm just an old fart seeing the past through rose-coloured specs and thinking everything and everyone was 'better in my day'?

Probably a bit of both...
 
Reiver said:
It was a great time to follow the Lads, some wonderful memories.
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The majority of my memories are from the 70s and 80s . Really miss those periods in time seems worlds away now . Football or should i say money has ruined my love of the game and left me behind.
 
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