Sky Blue Pete
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Oh I’m certain there’s many
Oh I’m certain there’s manyI don’t think any of our supporters would be disrespectful enough to do such a disgusting thing, my guess is it’s one idiot just mouthing off. If one of our fans did try to damage the garden in some way then there’d be plenty of us who would be prepared to step in and stop it, but TBF if the perpetrator was booted all over the joint by City supporters then they would be getting what they deserved.
Keyboard warriors mate, nothing more.
Welcome!
Btw, Nuneaton AND a Sunderland fan? And I thought we had it bad! Haha
Certainly hope so.Keyboard warriors mate, nothing more.
Certainly hope so.
Think on here we all just find it so weird that people can still be so unforgiving about something that happened over 40 years ago.
I was at that game and was urging the City players forwards, as I wanted us to go in and try and win the game.
It's not the fans fault, nor any of the regimes since then and I've said a few times on here, I used to work with a number of Sunderland fans for over 20 years and they hardly ever mentioned it and if they did it was always in a light-hearted fashion. No vitriol, no hatred, no bitterness.
All rather sad and pathetic to be quite honest all this current pent up anger and sour faces.
Yeah, well that's become a myth now about JH delaying the game. The decision was taken on the back of thousands of fans not yet in the ground. There was no premeditation to get the game kicked off late by the club or Jimmy Hill.In a very similar way, there are Tottenham fans who still resent Arsenal moving into their territory from Woolwich nearly a century ago....
It would certainly help if the Sunderland fans would get into their heads that the game kicked off 15 minutes late because of the intervention of the West Midlands police and nothing to do with JH. Many thousands of Bristol fans made the journey at a similar time after work and caused a log jam round the motorway network at Birmingham, particularly where the M5 and M6 merge (M42 wasn't built then)
Jimmy Hill rushing up the steps to get the Sunderland score on the screen was true. I'm 100% certain the Sunderland chairman would have done exactly the same given identical circumstances. Not JH's finest hour maybe but to talk of desecrating where his ashes have been spread is utterly mind numbing... All that's going to achieve is to alienate SAFC from the vast majority of decent people who support football from all over the country.
They're a massive club, irrespective of what we think of them. Biggest club in League 1 since Leeds (or Man City), whenever that was.
Just like their rivals, they are an incredibly well-supported club.
However, since WW2 they have had similar success to us, certainly nothing to shout about.
I've said before, I'm all for ring fencing it. Let Spurs, Arsenal, Man City and Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea battle it out every year.I agree, or you could even argue you’ve been more successful than us. That long unbroken spell you enjoyed (30 odd years?) of top flight football is something we’ve never come close to since our first relegation in the late 50’s.
Unfortunately the way modern football is we are both going to be perennial also rans fighting over the scraps Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool and the 2 Manchester clubs occasionally throw our way.
I’d like to think something will be done soon to narrow the gap but those top six Prem clubs aren’t going to want things to change and perhaps they are now too powerful to be challenged.
Very very lost makem !Welcome!
Btw, Nuneaton AND a Sunderland fan? And I thought we had it bad! Haha
Been up there a few times and seen nowt. People creating fake rivalries as there real ones are blowing them awayIt’s all a load of bull , we have played Sunderland many times since the event league and cup . There is nothing in it , Sunderland is a fine place of decent people , a few internet chimps have made up something that frankly does not exist. Some people need to get a grip on reality, if they can’t then they need to concentrate on the respective club and not waste web oxygen on myth and hearsay .
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Jimmy Hill rushing up the steps to get the Sunderland score on the screen was true. I'm 100% certain the Sunderland chairman would have done exactly the same given identical circumstances. .
Thing is even if they are not involved and something does happen they could still be arrested and done for inciting trouble at a football match could go to jail but will definitley be banned.More than one spouting off about it mate
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Totally agree. Who cares what they think. Get over it!Can't be bothered to hate back.
Bollocks. No bigger than Forest or WolvesThey're a massive club, irrespective of what we think of them. Biggest club in League 1 since Leeds (or Man City), whenever that was.
I've seen us play Sunderland about 20 times- home and away- and never once have I heard anyone in the crowd mention Jimmy Hill, let alone create some kind of rivalry- I don't know where all this has come from but maybe they're looking to offload some of the angst and anger at their current plight... Do we really want to be creating a rivalry with them based on something like this? #
The only standout memories I have concerning Sunderland:
1989/1990 away- Speedie and Gary Bennett sent off, Speedie tried to remove Bennett's kneecap and Bennett tried (and almost succeeded) to throttle Speedie... cue minor brawl with David Smith & Trevor Peake trying to protect Speedie with no luck, then Regis appears like the Hulk and swats about 4 people aside with ridiculous brute strength (see below!)... the place was crackling after that
1989/1990 home- the replay... they stupidly came down seemingly looking for revenge on Speedie as opposed to winning the game, they targeted him & blatantly chopped him down (Gary Owers?), man sent off and we coasted to a 5-0 win, they had great support that night and after they got hammered on the field their fans smashed a few cars up
1990/1991- 0-0 draw and possibly the worst game of football I ever saw (even worse than the procession of Wimbledon games in that period)- Butcher had taken over there and came for a 0-0, and we couldn't do anything about it, I think we had "runs with a limp" Kevin McDonald pulling the strings in midfield
2000/2001- we beat them 1-0 to give ourselves a chance to stay up and afterwards outside the ground some bitter Sunderland guy said to his son "At least we haven't got to come to this shithole again" to which some guy walked over and smacked him in the mouth then ran away
On another note- Roker Park, now there was an away ground, about as 'proper' an old football ground as you'd ever get... noisy, aggressive, intense, a fantastic place to watch football. Much better than the new place with all its lovely pink seats
Old enough to remember the Nicky Sumerbee "tackle" on Steve Froggat?My memories of games against Coventry are more limited, I remember Colin Healy breaking his leg at Highfield Road in about 2004?
I may be wrong here but I’m sure we were the first team to play you at the RICOH, I remember Peter Reid was your manager at the time.
Remember a 2-1 defeat at the RICOH live on Sky first day of the 2006/07 season when Niall Quinn was our manager and chairman.
I’m hopeful of getting a ticket for the game at your place this coming season given that it’s only a 15 minute drive away, I just hope it’s not a midweek game.
Old enough to remember the Nicky Sumerbee "tackle" on Steve Froggat?
My memories of games against Coventry are more limited, I remember Colin Healy breaking his leg at Highfield Road in about 2004?
I may be wrong here but I’m sure we were the first team to play you at the RICOH, I remember Peter Reid was your manager at the time.
Remember a 2-1 defeat at the RICOH live on Sky first day of the 2006/07 season when Niall Quinn was our manager and chairman.
I’m hopeful of getting a ticket for the game at your place this coming season given that it’s only a 15 minute drive away, I just hope it’s not a midweek game.
Aye, 2000, Froggat had been in and around the England squad (Under Keegan) and would have probably gone to the Euro's that year, but had to retire due to the injury.I’m guess that was around 2000? I was probably about 7 or 8 at the time so no I don’t recall. :banhappy:
My memories of games against Coventry are more limited, I remember Colin Healy breaking his leg at Highfield Road in about 2004?
I may be wrong here but I’m sure we were the first team to play you at the RICOH, I remember Peter Reid was your manager at the time.
Remember a 2-1 defeat at the RICOH live on Sky first day of the 2006/07 season when Niall Quinn was our manager and chairman.
I’m hopeful of getting a ticket for the game at your place this coming season given that it’s only a 15 minute drive away, I just hope it’s not a midweek game.
Shame for Healy, good player who played well for us on loan prior to his injuryThats right- Safri tackled Healy and it was one of those where you could hear the crack in the crowd, very bad.
First game 2006/2007- I remember that well, you had Niall Quinn on the touchline, you appointed Roy Keane a few days/ weeks later I think, but Micky Adams was our manager then, not Reid. I clearly remember that when you were 1-0 up Liam Lawrence was playacting and falling over every time someone went near him, trying to do some "game management"- but his attitude was all wrong, he was just trying to take the piss. I have no issue with Sunderland but I always hated Lawrence after that and took great pleasure in the change in pace he showed after we went 2-1 up...
As for the Summerbee tackle, that was hideous.. we steamed into a 3-0 lead and it was one of the best halves of football we ever put on, they couldn't get near us, at half time Reid obviously turned the air blue and they came out possessed- I couldn't say they were 'dirty', but they were certainly direct and aggressive, and in typical CCFC fashion we turned a comfortable 3-0 lead into a nervous last few mins at 3-2.
Summerbee was an absolute disgrace, and he finished our player's career, took his livelihood away... and yet I don't hate Sunderland, I just hate Summerbee
Nah 3-0 actuallyNah, we beat QPR 3-1 in our first game at the Ricoh.
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