Steve Cram


Saw him marshalling the Sunderland Half Marathon last year. He looks like he's in his late 30's. Decent commentator, I love how much of a Curling aficionado he has become. Never understood how the Mags thought it was an insult that he was our celebrity fan. Great bloke

They didn’t. They just ripped off a Man Utd song (‘They’ve got Curly Watts as a Celebrity Fan’) and had to replace it with something.
 
He was brought up in Hebburn as a kid, same age as my younger brother. They lived a few streets away from us. Early 70's games him and a few of his mates tagged along with us older lads to get the train to Seaburn from Pelaw for the games at Roker. His Jarra connection must be from him going to Jarrow Grammar back then, he was 3 years below my year there. That's where he took up the running and ended up at the Metupa running club at Monkton. MLF is Steve.
Love out like this
 
Please can someone on here be an actual A list celebrity someday so Steve Cram isn't mentioned as being our celebrity fan.
 
My Stepdad was a coach for Elswick Harriers in the late 60’s and 70’s and knew Cram back then, when he represented Jarrow and Hebburn as a youngster, and there was definitely strong Sunderland ties in that running club at that point, not just Cram so it’s probably not stemming from later in life and his association with Sunderland Uni etc

Edit: he wasn’t a coach until later, 80’s 90’s maybe now I think about the math, so he would have been an older competitor of Cram at the time then in the 60’s
Actually it can be ‘miners lamp’ if you are referring to it as the commonly used alternative for ‘Davy Lamp’ as it’s effectively a noun when used in that context, so doesn’t require the possessive apostrophe. ‘Miner’s lamp’ would be fine too if referring just purely to a lamp belonging to a miner, but when you are perhaps referring to the Davy lamp of a notably small and also young pit worker then that would be a ‘minor minor miner’s miners lamp’
 
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Steve was a regular at Roker before football became trendy. His father was a season ticket holder at the SOL. I recall having a conversation with him a couple of days after the Man City cup night in 73. Him and young Steve were in the Fulwell End that night.
Please can someone on here be an actual A list celebrity someday so Steve Cram isn't mentioned as being our celebrity fan.
The curse of the modern game. Back in the seventies and eighties hardly any show biz person ( word ' celebrity ' had not been invented) would want to be associated with football . Slum stadiums, hooligans , muddy pitches and defensive tactics.
 
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Steve was a regular at Roker before football became trendy. His father was a season ticket holder at the SOL. I recall having a conversation with him a couple of days after the Man City cup night in 73. Him and young Steve were in the Fulwell End that night.

The curse of the modern game. Back in the seventies and eighties hardly any show biz person ( word ' celebrity ' had not been invented) would want to be associated with football . Slum stadiums, hooligans , muddy pitches and defensive tactics.
When did football become trendy
 
Only time I met Steve Cram was during the Sunderland Marathon in about 2012 ish.

I volutnteered to Marchall it and was stood on some street somewhere. I was getting plenty of stick from locals for certain roads being closed and it even reduced one or two others to tears the abuse they got.

But Steve Cram went around in a car and was checking on us all - wish I though was good of him but you could see he was under pressure.

I don't think the Marathon was done again after this, and iirc it was short of the 26.2 mile distance. Not a success at all the only thing good was that runners got to cross the line in the SOL.
 
Once seen him running around the ski slope. I kept chasing him shouting his name so he kept picking up pace as I did the old "Steve Steve Steve". He got all the way to Whitburn before I caught up with him. Hands on knees he just muttered " will you fuck off ya mentalist afor I call the pollis".

I just said " here , ya dropped ya wallet" and he apologetically sobbed uncontrollably.

Canny lad.
 

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