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Was anyone at the game when his effort was rather questionable and who was it against? Anyone remember?
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Not sure if it’s the game you are after but remembered him getting sent off with Bobby Kerr just after half time against Boro. Looked like he wanted to kill the ref. That the one?
nope, I seem to remember that he could have run for a ball but didn’t and I’m pretty sure he was put on the transfer list afterwards, it would have been a game down south somewhere
Was anyone at the game when his effort was rather questionable and who was it against? Anyone remember?
Can’t open Google here Rob can u copy and paste it please )Bloody marvellous Google.
Stokoe, Sunderland and 73
50th anniversary edition of the story of the team that caused the last, great FA Cup upset...'Times have changed but this book is an engrossing reminder for all fans' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'An essential piece of British football history for fans of any club. Brilliantly researched and written...books.google.co.uk
Extract from Lance Hardys excellent book Stokoe, Sunderland and 73. Got it in the house somewhere. Bristol City away ?
Can’t open Google here Rob can u copy and paste it please )Bloody marvellous Google.
Stokoe, Sunderland and 73
50th anniversary edition of the story of the team that caused the last, great FA Cup upset...'Times have changed but this book is an engrossing reminder for all fans' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'An essential piece of British football history for fans of any club. Brilliantly researched and written...books.google.co.uk
Extract from Lance Hardys excellent book Stokoe, Sunderland and 73. Got it in the house somewhere. Bristol City away ?
Can’t open Google here Rob can u copy and paste it please )
I seem to recall that there was some sort of bust up between him and Ian Porterfield at the time..Either them or their wives after a night out.. It never did get explained.
The transfer to City, they offered a great price for Dennis and Horswill was a make up/ included I also recall despite what he say nowadays. A sad day for me and he was a pleasure to watch..
I was only a bairn mate, it is the account some of the older fans I know who were at the game, gave me. Certainly all stacks up.Here you are, typed out by hand as I couldn't suss out how to copy and paste from Google - just call it a pint
This was Sunderland's eighth Cup match of the season but now there was just one knockout competition left - the FA Cup. Stokoe had unquestionably caught up with Cup fever once again. The Second Division table was suddenly a sobering sight after the European campaign and the League Cup run had both been abruptly ended.
Between crashing out of both of these competitions that autumn Sunderland had been dealt another blow in some ways a mightier one: Tueart had asked to be put on the transfer list. After scoring a hat trick in a 4-1 win over Swindon Town and netting again in a 3-0 win over Bolton Wanderers - the first back to back wins in the league for the club that season - the player had been subdued in the 2-0 defeat at Ashton Gate against Bristol City and made his decision later that evening. He handed in a written transfer request shortly afterwards.
This was a few days before Sunderland played Liverpool. A shocked Stokoe announced that Tueaart could leave the club the day before the match. 'He wants First Divsion football and is not prepared to scrap it out with us' he said. 'I am very disappointed with him." Tueart responded by saying 'I am not playing top-class football and I am ambitious. If there was the guarantee that First Division would come at the end of the season that would be fair enough but I am fed up with ifs buts and whens.'
Here's the game and it would seem likely based on @englishman abroad account its the right one
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Was anyone at the game when his effort was rather questionable and who was it against? Anyone remember?
Most go thro the motions when they want to be away. Shocking attitude when your employers are still paying your wages mind.
It was after the Bristol game, Stokoe publicly bollocked him.
He asked for a transfer, club offered him more money even Roseberry offered him cash to stay, Shepherd came in for him even to sign for the mags
He was a mag remember but having said that always a pleasure to watch and one of my favouritesfavourite ever player.The club did not show enough ambition after the cup final.
I think the only signing of note was Rod Belfitt who was a knackered Leeds reject not as good as anything we had.
He was international class and he was being held back both professionally by the club and financially by the circumstances of the time ( law on max wage and increases to keep lid on inflation).
Remembering these were times of 3 day weeks and going home on a night time to sit in candle light and play board games.
The book says he was subdued, but you can’t compare players of that time with today. They lived in the same semis as everyone else and had a career of selling insurance, working as a brewery rep or running a pub to look forward to.
Don’t judge them by today’s standards. Players in those days were incredibly loyal and Tueart would have beenplaying first team football about 6-7 years by then, and been on coppers.