On quite a few threads I get dragged back to my youth. It always amazes me how you guys remember things from matches years back. Me I'm lucky if I remember last week. Some matches are so memorable whether for the right or wrong reasons they are hard to forget. Sunderland Charlton play off final springs to mind. Micky's soft spot kick. But the over riding memory for me is what a ****ing game that was! Yes tinged with disappointment but proud to have been part of it. What a game that must have been for neutrals to watch. As a kid I was at matches where Cloughie played but can't remember them. I do remember stuff like Charley Hurley running past on the pitch and the sound he made, fascinated by that thump thump thump of his boots. (And I was sure the ground actually trembled. ) Thought the same with the likes of Dick Malone and Cec Irwin. It may have been the time we beat Charlton I think, when we won promotion in 64. My memory of that was Charlie walking round the pitch in his socks after the game us cheering and me thinking his Mams gonna kill him for those socks. Most of my teenage memories are of the fights around the country not the actual games sadly. As I got older there were still fights but the immediate intake of alcohol for days after the matches may well have been the main factor in wiping my memories of the games. Certain memories can be dragged to the fore when talking over those times with lads who were there with me, or something mentioned on here that jogs a comatose cell into life. Looks like my boy could be one for posting memories on forums in the distant future as he seems to have instant recall of every incident that happened in matches he has been to. Ah well here's to the next 50 years of SAFC, I wont see them all but they have to have more highs than the last 50.
Good thread MR but it's called old age mate. I'm the same, I can remember seeing George Best run down the wing but I couldn't tell you what the score was, saw loads of class players grace the roker turf but only in fleeting glimpses. Strange that cos i can remember minute details of trivial things that happened years ago but can't remember things i did last week.
memories of being an safc follower, many ups and too many downs. if you had to sum it up what is the memory that stays with you the most, be it good or bad? to young to see 73, but if i had to pick one, that woefull day down at wimbledon, never seem to shake that one off. all the masses before the match singing and dancing, then a few hours later, the utter despair. the high and low in a matter of hours, hope never to be repeated
I read the OP written by, name slips my mind but it was about, something or other and I knew I needed to comment but no idea why. Memory, I used to have one you know.
my earliest memmorie of sunderland, was a mince and onin pie and a cup of bovril, clock stand, my first ever game, dont remember any of the football, but the pie and bovril live on forever.
I still have a scar on my chest off that ****ing bovril Bill. Anyone else there that night when Liverpool relegated us? Liverpool playing at a walking pace and not trying to score, they hardly put a tackle in. AND we still couldn't score and their centre forward ended up rolling one into our net, then the absolute silence round the ground even the away lads. Or have I made that up?
worst memory has to be being relegated to 3rd division v gillingham, absolutely devastating. Best memory has to be beating scum at st james' in play offs, the best feeling i've ever had in football
Well after no help from you lot. I had to phone my mate as it was doing my head in. It was 1970 and I was right Liverpool weren't even trying as at the time they had nothing to gain by winning.
Was anyone at Brentford for the first game of that 3rd Division season? Brilliant atmosphere, loads of singing - made you proud to be Red and White. Good performance and win, and you sort of realised straightaway that there was light at the end of the tunnel. And a couple of weeks later along came Marco, at Fulham!
I'm ashamed to say probably not, the away fixtures I was very fickle in the 3rd and only went to certain ones. Usually when I was flush after being on a good earning job.
i was there, i remember watching saint and greavsie in 1 of the pubs down there before the game, greavsie tipping sunderland to walk the division(which we did), it was absolutely red hot, keith bertschein nodding the winner just after half time from a paul lemon cross, and me celebrating in the brentford end after a few of us squeezed through a gap in the fence
How about this for a memory. In Thirsk when I was a kid checking out an open top sportscar absolutely beautiful! A guy in a shell suit with gold dripping off him walked over and told me to "Get the **** away from the car" Tell you what I never wrote to Jim'l'Fixit.
Took a right good kicking outside of Woolies in Blackpool, me and my mate after being evicted whilst trying to seek sanctuary after being chased through the streets by about 30 angry Blackpool fans. I've never set foot inside a Woolworths store ever again, talk about mental scarring. What a **** that manager was, ****ing threw us to the lions.
