When Bob Murray bought Sunderland?
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I was 6 mate, how do you expect me to know?
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Barry Batey.
busta777
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Cheers, that's the guy I was thinking of, but couldn't remember his name.
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Barry Batey wanted it iirc?
Mickdundee
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You mean we could have been the ones throwing away a 12 point league at the top of the table and starting the myth of the “famous number 9”?
naughtynose
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Awabs
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Speaking of Barry Batey.
I was at Gosforth Park when Batey's horse, Highflying, (the jockey, Joe Fanning, wearing red & white silks) won the Northumberland Plate in 1993.
Joyous scenes as lots of ecstatic punters of a red and white persuasion, celebrated Highflying's win, while angry punters of a black n white persuasion, who were unhappy to see Highflying (in Sunderland colours) racing up to the winning post, threw pints, bottles and cans of beer at the horse.
Iirc taking drink on to the course was banned after the way Highflying was targetted by some bitter punters.
Were any of the posters on here, there that day ? and did you back Batey's horse ?
I was at Gosforth Park when Batey's horse, Highflying, (the jockey, Joe Fanning, wearing red & white silks) won the Northumberland Plate in 1993.
Joyous scenes as lots of ecstatic punters of a red and white persuasion, celebrated Highflying's win, while angry punters of a black n white persuasion, who were unhappy to see Highflying (in Sunderland colours) racing up to the winning post, threw pints, bottles and cans of beer at the horse.
Iirc taking drink on to the course was banned after the way Highflying was targetted by some bitter punters.
Were any of the posters on here, there that day ? and did you back Batey's horse ?
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Not there, but backed it.
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Yes the very ones. Showing our horsepower, and undertaking.
vinegar hill
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They've had an issue with horses ivver since.
TheBronzeBummer
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So theyve abused horses as far back as the 90’s?
The Shepherd
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Mackem Nayshun marra
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Sadly, aye.
I heard that things got so bad, the city council cancelled all panto's in the city, which featured pantomime hosses, out of concern for the welfare of the panto hosses.
. . . . Though I could be making this up.
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freethewearsideone
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Sunderland fans like me who were barely toddlers at that time so have limited knowledge of the club’s prospective purchasers in the 80s.
Sadly, aye.
I heard that things got so bad, the city council cancelled all panto's in the city, which featured pantomime hosses, out of concern for the welfare of the panto hosses.
. . . . Though I could be making this up.
Wasn’t there something from a derby game in the early 1900s where there was a horse seriously injured??
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