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Grew up in Jarrow.

Early adult life up in Scotland traveling back for home games and some aways.

Last ten years in Portland, commute is a tad far but make it to any home games when I'm over.

Got a couple of mates here who've never been to Sunderland but have taken the club to heart. Hoping we can all make it over for a game some time.
 

It doesn't matter where you're from. I was born and raised in the North East but haven't lived there for over 50 years but have supported The Lads since a boy and Roker Park days.
 
I'm a helluva North East mongrel. Father was a Cockney (Stoke Newington), my Mam was from Easington Colliery. I was born and raised in Seaham Harbour until the age of 10 - then we moved to Whitley Bay for three years, then to Lobley Hill, Gateshead...then Low Fell.
Went to college for a year in Darlington; moved to Halifax (two years) for my first job then returned to Gateshead to work on the Chronicle, then The Journal. Bought my first house in Newbottle. Then moved to Altrincham when I moved to The People in Manchester; on to New Malden, Kingston, when I switched to the Fleet Street office. Seven years later it was back to the North East for two years in Stocksfield before switching back to London - living in Swanley Village, near Dartford.
Then on to Crockenhill, Kent, and most recently the Isle of Wight.
Oh, before I forget, I'm planning my return "home" to County Durham. If anyone in the pub has ever asked me where I'm from, it's easy...Seaham Harbour. "Give me a boy till the agen of seven and I'll show you the man..." so said Aristotle.
Haway the lads!
 
Didn't follow football at all until family moved to Sunderland in 1972 . Followed ever since... Went to Redby school then Fulwell then Monkey House..... My kids who've never lived in Sunderland proudly where Sunderland colours.. try to get to a few away games but home ones a bit more tricky
 
annie228 said:
Born in Littlethorpe hospital, Easington Colliery and brought up in a Sunderland supporting family. Work has taken me all over the world (yeah, look at me!) but never forgot who and what I am.
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Well i think you mean Little Thorpe hospital, Easington Village. My three kids were all born there and supported the lads. Glad you stay loyal to your roots:)
 
Born in British West Hartlepool
Spent majority of my time exiled in the south east.
My son, born in Redhill, Surrey is as mad an SAFC fan as I ever have been.
 
The Hunter said:
I'm a helluva North East mongrel. Father was a Cockney (Stoke Newington), my Mam was from Easington Colliery. I was born and raised in Seaham Harbour until the age of 10 - then we moved to Whitley Bay for three years, then to Lobley Hill, Gateshead...then Low Fell.
Went to college for a year in Darlington; moved to Halifax (two years) for my first job then returned to Gateshead to work on the Chronicle, then The Journal. Bought my first house in Newbottle. Then moved to Altrincham when I moved to The People in Manchester; on to New Malden, Kingston, when I switched to the Fleet Street office. Seven years later it was back to the North East for two years in Stocksfield before switching back to London - living in Swanley Village, near Dartford.
Then on to Crockenhill, Kent, and most recently the Isle of Wight.
Oh, before I forget, I'm planning my return "home" to County Durham. If anyone in the pub has ever asked me where I'm from, it's easy...Seaham Harbour. "Give me a boy till the agen of seven and I'll show you the man..." so said Aristotle.
Haway the lads!
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Hey welcome to the Isle of Wight and yes there's a few SAFC folk around here. Nice place to live, good music festivals but a hell of a way to and from the SoL
 
Haggis Heed said:
Im a geordie from Gateshead who supports Sunderland but was raised in Edinburgh and in New Zealand for now.

No connection with Sunderland as a place at all but Im getting up at 4am to watch the game as ever :)
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Whereabouts in NZ mate ?
Me born in Gillinham ,Dad rest his soul was a Sunderland supporting Geordie ,who married Mum a cockney lass he met during the war . Shuttled around the south of England before emigrating to NZ , never been anything other than a Sunderland supporter ,with a soft spot for Pompey.
Those 4am starts are a killer but better than nothing.
 
nilid69 said:
PS this is a tangent but I can't let it slide. Never judge someone on what they read. f***ing Sun Tzu. If you think you hate it, read it.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
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The Sun is shit and probably made all that up.
 
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naughtynose said:
Born in Felling. Not sure what that classes me as tbh.
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Also born in Felling, lived there all my life, always classed myself as a Geordie and always will but never a mag! Had a season ticket since my Fulwell end days in the 90's, Heworth to Seaburn on the train, the good old days, before the keeganights seemed to take the word Geordie for themselves f'kin idiots.
 
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