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aye the seaburn flag was easily spotted in all the papers the following morning and can still be seen on u tube about the night if im right ...

jarralee said:
aye the seaburn flag was easily spotted in all the papers the following morning and can still be seen on u tube about the night if im right ...
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a quick look shows a wallsend flag not seaburn i stand corrected ...:shock:
 
hertsmackem said:
erm , ive got plenty to say about sunderland and have posted plenty in this thread, my post was a light hearted joke seeing as you are based on the riviera, as i have said before, you get steamed up for nothing, I wasnt having a go at you, I was just adding some lighthearted banter..jeez
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As you'll have, no doubt, noticed I've been regularly accused of making everything up on here because I don't always get dates and details 100% correct ......... this post has shown that I'm really no different to anyone else.

An incident involving Newcastle has been variously described as being between 1995 and 2002 which is remarkably similar to when I mixed up the dates I hitched from Mansfield for a game against the Mags.

I've taken the view that I'll attack anyone, in a completely OTT manner, if they have a pop at me. I apologise if, in this case, you weren't. However I'm sure you'd 'steam in' if you were continually called a liar by some loser either on here or in real life.

Once again, I apologise if my attack was unwarranted.

hertsmackem said:
late 70's I believe, when we beat them 3-2 at their place, last game of the season I think, our nutters smashed up their club shop on tottenham high road, in the ground that day there were plenty of scuffles after we scored..
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I was there, in the Spurs seats, with my Cockney father-in-law who hadn't been to WHL since the late 1960's. I'd taken him down from Mansfield and told him what good fans Sunderland had but there were little fights all up the road before and after the match.

IIRC Spurs needed to win for promotion and we won 3-2 with Bob Lee playing his best ever game for us. We'd watched Spurs get a lucky 3-3 at Mansfield that year with Hoddle playing for them.
 
Wonderwall said:
Ireland v England was mentioned earlier, I seen a video of the seats getting ripped out and was told that was alot of Sunderland lads over there?? BB by any chance?
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I've heard a few first hand accounts about that day and it was eventful to say the least :lol:
 
as someone who goes to matches to watch the football and not get into fights, I'm happy that the main days of hooliganism is over.

taking a balaclava or hammer to a football match for me shows you aren't really that much of a supporter
 
fusen said:
as someone who goes to matches to watch the football and not get into fights, I'm happy that the main days of hooliganism is over.

taking a balaclava or hammer to a football match for me shows you aren't really that much of a supporter
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I went to most of our games throughout the 70' and 80's without wanting to get into fights ........ however, as a big bloke with a group of mates you always had to be prepared to defend yourselves and we did.

Going to places like Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth and most of the London clubs meant being on your toes for the whole day and sometimes being met by nutcases with weapons you'd expect to see in a prison riot.

I'm glad those days are over but I only regret whacking one of the opposition fans over 40 years of support. That was just a case of mistaken identity and he only got a broken nose.
 
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hertsmackem said:
remember it well, I was 13 and was terrified, we were sitting down one side with quite a few of our lot women and children included, they climbed over the fences and threatened all of us including the women, I remember one knucklehead pushing an older woman for wearing a sunderland scarf, was terrifying...great days.

what about oxford away, 74/75? we had thousands behind the goal, we went 1 down from a 30 yard shot and all hell broke loose, one of our lads stepped over the wall around the pitch and laid out their keeper and then took on their defence before he was eventually restrained, someone here must know who that was, the vision of him stepping calmly over the wall has always stayed with me, he was a big bloke.....sigh ....great days
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Two seasons on the trot there was absolute hell on at Oxford.

I think it was the first of those 2 when Sammy the Chin climbed on to the roof girders and started to lob some of the cladding broken from the back panels of the stand at the Oxford lot!
 
BNM said:
Is this thread a cyber version of Life on Mars, and we've been transported back to 1973?
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It's how it was mate and it's not something you'll easily forget.
I never went looking for trouble but there was always the potential for trouble to find you ... grudges were built up and it was a viscious circle.

For example, I was attacked at Chelsea and felt quite justified in attacking the Chelsea hooligans when they came to Roker.
The fact that they'd been banned from attending the match meant they knew what to expect and they got it.

Sunderland were one of the last clubs to have organised gangs, I believe, but it became necessary as we were just a happy shambles in the early days and easy prey for some of the firms such as West Ham.

No big or clever but I have no regrets.
 
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rocky dennis said:
f***ing very scary night but we got our own back in 92 round Z block outside The Shed. The kernts didn't know where to run that night.
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I was only 10 in 92 at Stamford bridge, but I can't recall ever being more scared at a football when I got of the coach, then about 5 minutes 2 buses of Sunderland came along rocking, and the apprehension soon disappeared along with Chelsea acting like twats.
 
anyone else down brentford in the cup a few years ago? loads of the fuckers attacked our pub after the game, only about a dozen of us in there. absoloutle hell on for ages before the police arrived and they didnt care one bit when they eventually turned up
 
Its Him Again said:
I heard that the night before we had took the piss in Central London.
It was a mixture of London clubs fans not just Spurs fans that caused the bother.
Chelsea were mentioned at the time :-|
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Spurs away last day of the season, iirc few lads down to meet Leeds who were in London too.
On the day, seaburn got down tottenham early and kicked off.
Spurs didn't have any bother with Sunderland before this and weren't expecting anything, and spent the rest of the day getting revenge.
 
Cornelius said:
anyone else down brentford in the cup a few years ago? loads of the fuckers attacked our pub after the game, only about a dozen of us in there. absoloutle hell on for ages before the police arrived and they didnt care one bit when they eventually turned up
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Aye, the town something on the corner by Ealing tube.
Came in hoying glasses and a few waiting outside.
f***ing embarrassing really, brentford mob handed to storm into a few old Sunderland fans. No firm at all down that day.
Goes the theory that firms only attack other firms.
 
Cornelius said:
anyone else down brentford in the cup a few years ago? loads of the fuckers attacked our pub after the game, only about a dozen of us in there. absoloutle hell on for ages before the police arrived and they didnt care one bit when they eventually turned up
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I went with a saffa and Swedish lad that day. The saffa was concerned about any trouble and while me and the swede were saying it will be easy to stay out of the way across the road from us a pub door opened followed by a chair, this was before the game like.
 
Haway 501 said:
Is that the PP from Durham? If it is I used to occasionally drink in the same company as him in the Salutation in fram moor about 20 years ago. It was mixed between Sunderland and mags and never any bother but about a week after we did them in the play offs pp turned up with 3 of his gremlin mates. Somehow they clicked on who I supported and the 3 of them collared me by me self and 2 held me down while the other one stubbed a tab out on me arm, never felt pain like it and the smell of me flesh burning was f***ing horrible but didn't give them the satisfaction of making a sound, still got the scar now.
Proper hard lads they were, I was just turned 18 about 10 stone wet through and soft as shite!
Pp was a proper head the ball like.
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I must know you then as I used to drink in the Sally/Newton Hall!! I know PP as well, and GE from Newton Hall. Dont think PP is that hard, but he is a looper, know him quite well.
 
shepherd88 said:
I went with a saffa and Swedish lad that day. The saffa was concerned about any trouble and while me and the swede were saying it will be easy to stay out of the way across the road from us a pub door opened followed by a chair, this was before the game like.
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i think brentford were creeping about all daylooking for a fight but there was too many sunderland around for anything to really kick off. an hour or 2 after the game it was another matter and our pub got smashed to fuck. a load of them came steaming through the door and we fought them off and chased them down the road, oldest trick in the book. sure enough we turn the corner to see f***ing loads of them charging at us and beseiged the pub for ages. i dont think the pub had any windows, glasses or furniture left by the time the police got there
 
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