T_Bone
Striker
10 years ago we took part in the Amsterdam Tournament where we were invited guests to ply our trade against Ajax and Atletico Madrid and Benfica.
Steve Bruce had just been appointed as manager and declared we would be shopping at Harrods.
I must point out at this point we were playing Benfica’s first team not second team as of now.
We had about 2000 or 2500 fans in the city when we lost to Benfica in our opening game. Benfica fans who numbered about 500 were, in my experience very wary and unfriendly.
I would say about 25k Ajax fans were there.
We signed Lorik Cana from Marseille while we were there. Great News.
The mags lost 6-0 in their pre season friendly to Leyton Orient. Oh how we partied in Bar Louis.
We then played Atletico Madrid who had Forlan and Aguero up front and about 300 fans who were shit scared of us e ven though we were there to be friends.. We played in our Galaxtico all white strip. Keiron Richardson and Anton Ferdinand outstanding, we beat them 2-0.
“ Hello Hello We are the Sunderland Boys” deafening as we left the stadium.
Proud to be Sunderland, great crack great weekend
.These Days we are playing their reserves on their own patch.
Anyone got any memories of that tournament ten years ago ?
Steve Bruce had just been appointed as manager and declared we would be shopping at Harrods.
I must point out at this point we were playing Benfica’s first team not second team as of now.
We had about 2000 or 2500 fans in the city when we lost to Benfica in our opening game. Benfica fans who numbered about 500 were, in my experience very wary and unfriendly.
I would say about 25k Ajax fans were there.
We signed Lorik Cana from Marseille while we were there. Great News.
The mags lost 6-0 in their pre season friendly to Leyton Orient. Oh how we partied in Bar Louis.
We then played Atletico Madrid who had Forlan and Aguero up front and about 300 fans who were shit scared of us e ven though we were there to be friends.. We played in our Galaxtico all white strip. Keiron Richardson and Anton Ferdinand outstanding, we beat them 2-0.
“ Hello Hello We are the Sunderland Boys” deafening as we left the stadium.
Proud to be Sunderland, great crack great weekend
.These Days we are playing their reserves on their own patch.
Anyone got any memories of that tournament ten years ago ?
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