Your first ever awayday watching the lads


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Was deffo Boro away, but got the home events mixed up with the Ayresome one that season. I was 13 :oops:


73-74 Boxing day 0-1? Got me heed split open when the twats bricked the bus

After Shiny strangled the little shit Speedie at Roker



I went down without a ticket and ended up in The Kippax Paddock. I cried that day


We had tickets but arrived late, they tried not letting us in, coppers made them let us in, it was half time so missed both of our goals :(
 
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Bradford 1987 it was the return of Bob Stokoe. I was 15 and my Dad thought we'd be safer sat in with the Bradford fans in the main stand. Both times we scored I got proper evil looks when I cheered :):eek:
I was in the same stand - SAFC fans behind the goal to the right. I was threatened with one bloke flashing a Stanley knife so I could see his intentions. I remember the old bill came in and he pissed off. Miserable bastards in Bradford from my experience.

Hull away 1976......won 4-1.....approx 22.000 Sunderland fans there
Gary Rowell's first ever goal that day marra :cool:
 
I was in the same stand - SAFC fans behind the goal to the right. I was threatened with one bloke flashing a Stanley knife so I could see his intentions. I remember the old bill came in and he pissed off. Miserable bastards in Bradford from my experience.


Gary Rowell's first ever goal that day marra :cool:

You’re right about Bratford Jacks, shithouses from a shithouse place ime
 
Leeds away, Keanos second game in charge. We were 0-2 up before they even let us in the ground:cool:
Can’t remember the goal scorers, Kavanagh, Stephen Elliott maybe and ...someone else. Maybe David Connolly as I remember chanting his name a lot

Magical time to be a lads fan though, what I wouldn’t give to get that feeling about football back :cry:
Liam Miller

It was a present for my 16th birthday, Dad took me and my brother to Burnley under Peter Reid when we needed a point to be sure of staying up. Something like 8,000 Sunderland fans there, we got the point thanks to a Martin Smith or Phil Gray equaliser, don't remember which it was now.
Martin Smith but I think he put us 1-0 up them they equalised with a pen
 
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SJP in 66/67 season. Wyn Davies debut for scum, and a 3-0 win for Sunderland.
A lovely start to more than 50 years of the roller-coaster ride that is supporting Sunderland
 
York 1988, was only 12 and wasn't allowed to go to another, following the carry-on until Hull, New Year's Day 1990. Mind, I was present in NE1 on a certain night in May of that year as well.
 
Hull City December 27th 1971 Boothferry Park 26,000
Sunderland won 3-2 away and there were thousands and thousands down to see the lads.
Pitt, Tueart and Hughes were the scorers and I remember we sang 'Jingle bells .....oh what fun..... to see Sunderland win away' over and over. Still hear it sung by fans today and they think it's new.
Got the train there and then we got a taxi (must have been feeling flush) from Paragon station to the ground .
On the way back had a long wait while changing at Selby and remember being just freezing cold and hungry.
Had to go back to Newcastle, went out of the front of the Central station and got chased by the skins who hung around Bowers restaurant.
Happy days.
Not long after, went to Sheffield United. Bramall Lane only had three sides then as it was also Yorkshire's county cricket pitch. So there were stands behind the goals and on one side, the linesman on the opposite side had nothing behind him but a cricket wicket and further back the pavilion with terraces on either side of it. You could walk from one end to the other.
Not long from the end the Sheff U fans started to move around from their end to ours, police did nothing to stop them, you could see hundreds walking around in front of the pavilion.
Then they arrived singing 'nick nack paddy wack, give the dog a bone ...' and the fights started.
No such thing as safe standing in those days.
 
blackburn in the FA cup some time around 1998 maybe - I think it could have been the 105 point season
took thousands down and filled that entire end behind the goal
loved it even though we lost
 
Villa away, near the end of the 74/75 season. Had to win to stand a chance of going up, got beat 2-0!!! About 18,000 down there watching us
 
The more I think about it, the vast majority of the best times I've had watching SAFC have been away games. A personal favourite season of mine was the 1st Division in 1990/91 when Smith was manager. I saw us win once at Sheff Utd (they battered us as well). It was like a coming of age for me. Went to a good few away games and each one was a great day out with thousands going to every match. I had zero responsibility in life other than G.C.S.E. exams on the way. Football was everything to me then.
 
October 1976 Me and me pal Den Marshall lived in Blyth at time both 16 went on footy special £3 return went to QPR got beat 2-0 first time in London, big lads looked after us. Was scary on them tubes.
 
As I posted on the previous thread about 6 months ago....
Man City 1973 2-2...we went on to win the cup apparently
I win...

As I posted on the previous thread about 6 months ago....
Man City 1973 2-2...we went on to win the cup apparently
I win...
Second away game
 
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