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Happy birthday Robbie! At our age, we’ve seen good times and bad with Cov - enjoy the moment!

EE-AYE ADDIO, the Queens in Sky Blue!

To our friend from Ipswich, Kieron Dyer - a bit left field? Don’t know whether he’s prominent around your way, but I’ve not seen anything of him for years, and he never seemed to me to be someone who showed any interest in the management/coaching side of the game?

Have you not read the follow up posts by reasonable Sunderland fans? Perhaps not exactly fair to quote one poster, who is out of line with most of their other posters.

I’m seeing a lot of confidence about tomorrow’s vote, aren’t the numbers tight? Or have I missed something?

It’s not really about SkyBlueMichael, it’s about this Andrew Scates guy who reckons it’s the highlight of his season, during a ‘promotion?’ year. Although reposting it isn’t, in my opinion, the greatest thing to do. Still, if someone’s downfall does it for you, then each to his own.

Jeez, it’s a shame that someone can’t enjoy our success without having another kick at someone who’s already down and out. A bit sad that this is someone’s personal highlight, don’t you think?

I remember the game against Huddersfield well, it was in 1965, near Christmas. Harold Wilson was introduced to the crowd before the game. They were top of the league at the time, and beat us 3-0. They then fell away in the second half of the season and failed to achieve promotion, Man City won...

I’m sure I’m one of those to whom this thread makes no sense, but James Ellroy is an excellent American crime writer, even if his plots are quite hard to follow.

Yes, I live in the North East, and there’s no doubt the Newcastle fans feel entitled, much as I think Liverpool fans do. Cheesed me off today on BBC Breakfast, when the girl sports reporter (Sally something?) starts going on about ‘long suffering Geordie fans’ - they don’t know the half of it.

Well the crowd for Cov v Sunderland was just over 40,000, the crowd for the Man U game was 44,000. The Man U game was definately all ticket, my Grandad, who was retired, queued for hours at Highfield Road for tickets. Nobody knows how many people actually watched the Sunderland game...

Anyhow, on a lighter note, in the mid sixties my Grandad used to sing, ‘aye aye aye aye, Glazier is better than Yashin, and Gibson is better than Eusebio, and Wolves are in for a thrashing’. (or whoever we were playing)

Yes, it’s strange to think that when some of us were growing up in the 60’s, a lot of people around us would have had clear memories of the First World War, including troop songs. Indeed, many of the ‘older’ men (as we thought of them) would have fought in the trenches. I wish I had the interest...

My Grandad used to say things like that when I was a kid. I’d say to him (this was the mid sixties) ‘do you fancy coming up to see the City this weekend?’ and he’d reply ‘why would I do that? They didn’t come and see me when I was bad!’ On Saturday morning, he would say ‘come on then, let’s get...

Thanks Oscillatewidly and LSB. Amazing where the tune and the words came from. Makes you think that it was a very old take off of the song from the film, and we were still singing it in the late 60’s. Fascinating - l may have seen the film years ago, full of old English character actors? I’ll...

Oh, and the last line was, for some reason or other, ‘Inky pinky parlez vous’ Suppose it just finished the verse off.

Dougan’s on the Western Front, parlez vous, Repeat Dougan’s on the Western Front, give us a gun and I’ll shoot the (you can guess!) Sung at Wolves games (our big rivals) in the 60’s.

That’s been sung a few times, it’s pretty rubbish really.

You’re right, it was West End Aggro, I’ve heard it sang ‘ Matt Busby said to Bill Shankley’

I drove up to Hillsborough without a ticket. Walked into the ticket office just as a Cov fan walked in trying to give in a spare ticket. Timing! At the final whistle a really attractive woman behind me gave me a massive hug. It was a very emotional day, knowing our team were going to Wembley. I...