SAFC Milk Cup Heroes Reunite For 40th Anniversary Celebration

[Cyprus]

I vividly remember the Vaux Breweries advertising slogan in the lead up to the final ...

"SUNDERLAND FOR THE CUP.
(Norwich can keep the milk.)"

If only

 

[Wrenthorpe Mackem]

My first three games as an 8 year old, thought I'd never see us lose a game after those. Went expecting another 3 goals and a nice easy home win against Leicester

Yes, was there that day. A 4 0 drubbing. Lineker hat trick. Alan Smith up front with him.

 

[Hetty]

Few tickets left for this on Monday

 

[Kingdom Bhoy]

Few tickets left for this on Monday

You going?

 

[WildinHetton]

Heroes? We got beat. 2nd worse Wembley performance after Swindon.

 

[Wrenthorpe Mackem]

Heroes? We got beat. 2nd worse Wembley performance after Swindon.

Heroics on the way to the final. But they froze on the day.

 

[Luna17]

What’s to celebrate we were abysmal that day, probably our worst ever Wembley performance

You r kidding intcha?
Play off Vs Swindon was a total fking embarrassment

 

[hoolio]

You r kidding intcha?
Play off Vs Swindon was a total fking embarrassment

Nah Swindon were a decent team whereas Norwich were woeful

 

[Hetty]

Still tickets available for this tomorrow night if anyone is interested in going

 

[Mowgli]

Heroes

 

[fyl2u]

Main memories of that day:

- seeing a Norwich flag outside Wembley that read "Bruce Eats Walkers".
- seeing a Sunderland flag that read "Black cats eat canaries".
- the penalty miss.
- "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the end. Fuck me, I've never felt so proud and emotional being a Sunderland fan.

Best part of that day was our fans stopping back for the cup presentation and dominating proceedings with incredible backing…. What was it we were singing
No clubs fans would do that now
We were unequalled for blind loyalty back then.

The game at Chelsea in the second leg of semi was easily worst experience as a fan.

Dropping West was easily worst management decision of my life

You'll Never Walk Alone.

I was there too. We had a terrible team then with Wallace and Howard Gayle up top.
Wallace pen miss was the turning (or turning) point)
Long journey for a shit result. At least when I saw Swindon beat us we saw a subsequent turn of fortune

Clive Walker, surely?

 

[Fact Hunt]

It was an awful cup-final, easily forgettable. The journey to the final was tremendous though, some really heroic games and now 40 years have passed!

 

[Church]

I was a kid and it was my first time seeing us (on tv) in a final, and i was so disappointed I can still remember how it felt now. Missing the penalty was gut wrenching.

Turns out we would be routinely dog shit every time we went to Wembley for ever after!! (I know we broke the curse more recently).

 

[Hetty]

Play off Vs Swindon was a total fking embarrassment

I remember that, not this thou

 

[Gloucester]

Was in the RAF in London at the time and went to every game in the run, was convinced we’d win at Wembley as we’d beaten some good teams on the way, Europe here I come. Still haven’t forgiven Clive ‘Baldy’ Walker, wouldn’t have got into Europe either as British teams banned next season

Snap. I too was in the RAF at the time. Managed to get two tickets for my wife and me from a friend of a friend. Turned out to be in the Norwich end.

 

[macum1920]

Snap. I too was in the RAF at the time. Managed to get two tickets for my wife and me from a friend of a friend. Turned out to be in the Norwich end.

I was at the Staff College in Bracknell, shiny arsed P&A clerk

 

[HoxtonMackem]

Heroes?

We were absolutely abysmal in that final, and also got relegated.

 

[Randy Savage]

Still tickets available for this tomorrow night if anyone is interested in going

Read the room!

 

[Freddie the Greek]

Fancy having this the day after that

 

[Stubbs ftm]

Heroes?
We lost.


Will there be similar for the 2014 team? I hope not