The Greatest Shipbuilding Port in the World


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it's just happened to be the biggest town to have it. It doesn't matter where we are from, nobody is any better supporter just because you live in the city. In fact, a lot of people live outside the city but closer to the actual club than people who do. The club is mainly ran from the academy now anyway.
I never said anyone is better. It's just ridiculous to suggest it's not Sunderland's club. Look at the name...if South Tyneside, Durham or anywhere else were the biggest representation it would be there and called Durham or something else. So why do people continue to try and suggest it's not Sunderland's club. Lunacy!
 
I was born in Sunderland, County Durham.
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I live in Hampshire and the blokes down the pub were going on about the county’s great nautical history, with both Southampton and Portsmouth, and how little history there was from the North East. They were surprised when a lad from Newcastle and I both pointed out the huge shipbuilding history on both rivers.

We did mention that both the south coast cities are linked with two famous ships, the Titanic and The Mary Rose. The local’s seamanship wasn’t much to write home about.
That didn’t raise many laughs for some reason.
Titanic was built in Belfast
 
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I never said anyone is better. It's just ridiculous to suggest it's not Sunderland's club. Look at the name...if South Tyneside, Durham or anywhere else were the biggest representation it would be there and called Durham or something else. So why do people continue to try and suggest it's not Sunderland's club. Lunacy!
it is based, well ish, in Sunderland, but the smaller surrounding communities provide a vast amount of the support and without it, it wouldn't be the club it is. Do you really think that 30,000 from a population of 250,000 ish, attend the g ame? Of course they dont. It's the biggest club in the area, supported by the whole area and beyond, and people from Sunderland.
 
it is based, well ish, in Sunderland, but the smaller surrounding communities provide a vast amount of the support and without it, it wouldn't be the club it is. Do you really think that 30,000 from a population of 250,000 ish, attend the g ame? Of course they dont. It's the biggest club in the area, supported by the whole area and beyond, and people from Sunderland.
It’s called Sunderland man :lol::lol:
 
They also found shallow coal seams when cutting the A1 near Lumley on the way north to Chester Le Street.
Monks dug into the hillsides of the Wear, for coal near Finchale Abbey over a thousand years ago.
The earliest records of shipments of coal in UK were from Sunderland to Whitby Abbey.
The Wear was stopped from exporting coal by the King , he being supported by the folk of Newcastle got the Royal approval to export coal which caused a catastrophic effect on the livelihoods and lives of Wearsiders, who suffered from poverty and death due to starvation. Sunderland supported the Parliamentarians. The Scottish Army encamped in Sunderland and along with the folk of Wearside attacked, burned and ransacked Newcastle during the Civil War . It was many years later that Wearside was granted the approval to re start exporting coal to London.
How many years later?
 
We-ar we-ar Wearside, Wearside, Wearside.
The river wear starts miles away from Sunderland, and belongs to many different towns and villages before it ever gets near to Sunderland, any football club with an allegiance to the River Wear is a County Durham Club, if it wasn't for very recent stupid boundary changes, the Wear would start and finish in County Durham.
 
We-ar we-ar Wearside, Wearside, Wearside.
The river wear starts miles away from Sunderland, and belongs to many different towns and villages before it ever gets near to Sunderland, any football club with an allegiance to the River Wear is a County Durham Club, if it wasn't for very recent stupid boundary changes, the Wear would start and finish in County Durham.
47 years ago
 
We-ar we-ar Wearside, Wearside, Wearside.
The river wear starts miles away from Sunderland, and belongs to many different towns and villages before it ever gets near to Sunderland, any football club with an allegiance to the River Wear is a County Durham Club, if it wasn't for very recent stupid boundary changes, the Wear would start and finish in County Durham.
Source of the Wear, in northern Pennines east of Nenthead / Alston area and throughout Co Durham.
 
I think we should be looking to invest some money into putting a bit more character into the stadium. A few more statues, more murals etc. Something related to the ship building past of the stadium would be great.

I know people will say that we should focus on the on field stuff first, but if you take that mentality then there is never a good time to be investing in the off the field structure and you're end up with isolation between the supporters and the soulless money-making corporation of the club.

For the more cynical among us, I would argue that making supporters feel closer to the team through upgrading the stadium is also a good profit making decision - while will help the club in the long term. As it will actually increase the likelihood that people spend money on the club as they feel a greater psychological investment - if you feel the club represents you then its more of your duty to buy season tickets etc.

This is it totally. Telling a story in the stadium and it's surroundings does have value and pay back. Sunderland Til I Die would have been a twatful exercise in cringe comedy if the opening credits hadn't been so spot on. Even the missus (NO!) got a bit teary watching it.

The stadium doesn't have much history. It's hardly compelling to say to the next generation 'Me and your grandad were looking at these exact same breeze blocks the night Status Quo skillfully avoided playing Down Down Deeper and Down out of respect for Peter Reid.'
 
Shipbuilding on the Wear took off because of the SD14 form Pickies.
🤣 we’d been building ships for 600 years before the SD14 was even conceived.
Even though Bede used the word Geordie to describe the miners from the parishes of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow way back in the 7th century?
Hahaha!!! Class wind up. unless it’s not, in which case, oh dear!,
 
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If we go back in time and just look the collection of buses parked near the Victory club area for Roker Park and look at the plces they travelled from. Ashington, sticks in my mind and the bus was full, all parts of County Durham, the long queue for the Economic to South Shields, Sunderland AFC was supperted from far and wide. I doubt more than half were from the town itself. I am talking 1950s and 60s I doubt things have changed much.
 
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