Our not606 Sunderland community.

Some background from our posters, add yours.

 

I used to cook lunch often for sir Richard attenborough

 

......and I used to sit on Dr Who's knee!

 

I went to see the Pope in September, I'm fourth from the right, in the black t-shirt!

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I'm 50 years old with three kids, two boys and a girl. My two lads are both season ticket holders, but my girl is not interested in football at the moment. My youngest lad who is ten now, nearly died at the age of one through meningitis, and has been left with one or two minor problems because of this. But I'm very proud of the way he has coped with these, and despite the fact that he needs constant physio on his lower legs, he has managed to run cross country for the Sunderland harriers and plays football for Hetton Lyons. On a personal note, Five years ago I decided to take up the challenge of a degree in social sciences with the Open University. It's been a very hard but also a rewarding journey, which I'm very glad to say will come to an end this October when my studies will be completed.
I suppose I can now add that I got a 2:1 in my degree...

 

Thats a good story mate and you have every right to be proud of your kids, especialy the ten year old. Good luck with the degree

 

Cheers Syd.......As for the degree, I've completed all my exams so it's just assignments from now on....Hard work, yes, but nothing will stop me finishing it now..

 

I am 38 years old with 2 stepsons, and 2 daughters, and 1 son on the way in July.

I have never lived in Sunderland, but my dad is from silksworth, met my Mam at the ministry in longbenton, (they lived in Blyth where my mam was from) so I lived there for 30 years, I now live just south of Boro, and have done for the last 8 years.

My mams family are all mags, so when i was younger it was a battle between them to get me to support each side, luckily both were pretty dire, so it was an easy decision to stick with my dads team (if it was 15 years later when the toon was doing well, it may very well have went the other way).

I run my own website, not football related at all, and dont want to say what it is, or what it does, but we have 35,000 members from all over the world (used to have 100,000 a couple of years back) and its supposed to be the best site for what we do (i am meh on that though, and leave that for others to argue about lol).

I am unemployed, but not for the want of trying, honestly though, get the chron in newcastle and there are pages of jobs, get the gazette on teeside and its 3 pages and all crap, there just isnt anything out there atm, so much so i am very tempted to do a course at the OU like MrRAWhite, as everthything i do know (PHP/HTML etc etc) is all home taught, and have nothing to back it up.

 

I used to be head chef at the university of Sussex and Dickie had some connection with the uni and often came with other guests including his brother for 'special' lunches and dinners.
I also cooked for the Newcastle team in 1994/95 at Maiden castle, all they had for lunch after training was lots of tins of soup all mixed together and a banana.
I also worked at St. James's Park the night they threw away the chance of winning the league when Cantona scored the only goal, I had finished my shift at that point and was watching the match from a box jumping for joy when Cantona scored, it was quite scarey.

 

I'm sure you have us all wondering what thhat web site is mate. Good luck on the job front, not easy right now, pleased I'm out of it.

 

My christian name is Les, I'm 50, from a large Catholic family, me being the eldest of 8 and originally from the Royal Arms area of Peterlee. I left there when I was 16 to join the Army and served in various places until I took the decision to leave after 18 years service. I'm married to Karen and have 4 sons from a previous marriage, 2 step sons and a step daughter, who live all over the south of England.

We own a bungalow located in a picturesque village about 6 miles from Dorchester which has a stream running by the end of the garden with trout, eels etc swimming by daily and I work for the MoD as an Energy Manager at Blandford Camp.

We own a cat called Tabby (unfortunately not black!) who is a complete pain in the arse, regularly bringing home "gifts" such as mice, birds and frogs! Karen (who hates football ) drives a Mazda 6 and I drive a Saab 9-5 Vector.

I have 5 sisters and 2 brothers who all still live in Peterlee and support the following...

SAFC: 1 brother and 2 sisters
NUFC: 1 Sister
MUFC: other brother
None: 2 sisters (like my wife, hate football)

I used to be a keen amateur footballer and played on the left wing, but had to give up playing football at 27 after dislocating my knee, causing a lot of internal damage. After hanging up my boots I became a referee and went on to complete an FA coaching course, so that I could coach some local kids.

I love watching all levels of football, but my passion for SAFC is second to none!

 

I am 16, born in Sunderland, moved to Jersey when I was 2-ish. I still have family up there, and go up maybe about once a year. I'm in my first year of A-levels, and hoping to go to Durham, if I can get the grades (nothing to do with football, honest!)

 

I am 51 and live in Durham (I was born in Allergate just up from the bus station) . I have supported Sunderland since 1973 when I got hooked in the run up to the FA Cup final. I have worked for the NHS for 35 years, been married for 31 years and have no kids but plenty of nieces and nephews who I borrow now and again. And yes I am as Scatty as my username suggests

 

I'm 69 and have supported Sunderland since I was 5 when my Dad took me to St James Park to see the derby game. I was born in Ashington and went to the local school with Cec Irwin where we both played for the school football team as well as East Northumberland and Northumberland senior boys. Cec started as centre half and I was left fullback but the school teachers changed Cec to right fullback. I started to play guitar when I was 13, influenced by Lonnie Donegan and left school at 14 and went to work in Lynemouth colliery where I stayed until I was 19 then took my first rock'n roll band on the road with great plans of fame and fortune in my head. It didn't work that way but it was a wonderful experience. For a short time I even played in the resident dance band at the Sunderland Locarno.

In my late 20's I went back to college and qualified as an accountant, why, I do not know, became a semi pro musician and started to work as an accountant for an agricultural merchant. By this time I had settled down, but not yet married my wife and we moved into the Borders north of Wooler. I'd met my wife while playing in her husband's band in the south of England. Music began to take a back seat to photography at this point and after a few years I started to teach photography in colleges and at private workshops and also started writing in national photographic magazines. It seemed a good idea to give up accountancy to concentrate on my photography so I did. This decision proved to be a good one for a few of the bigger photographic companies started to employ me as a consultant and took my overseas to shows and on assignments. I still have a red Fender Telecaster hence the user name on the forum. Unfortunately the down side of this change in career was that I couldn't get to Roker Park to see Sunderland. However I did see every game in the 1973 cup run and still wear the red and white scarf that I wore at Wembley, it hasn't been washed since that wonderful day.

I still have an interest and connections in the music world partly through my wife's youngest son by her first marriage who is a musician and has played with people like Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers and formed a band called Bonham with Jason Bonham, son of John Led Zeplin's drummer. Consequently, I'm lucky enough to get to attend many gigs and photograph them. In the past 10 years I've become very friendly with Steve Harris, bass player and owner of Iron Maiden so I get to tour with them and get good access to photograph them. If there are any Maiden fans on the forum who plan to attend the Maiden gig at the Newcastle Arena in July please let me know and we can try to meet up before the gig. I'll be in the pit photographing the show.

I retired from the international travel three years ago to spend time at home and of course I purchased a season ticket for the East Stand near Syd so I get to see the lads at every home game.

 

You snake Redfender!

 

After reading some of these stories mine is very dull, never met the Pope and cant play an instrument.

63 this year, born and bred in the Durham coal field, Thornley and started life serving an apprenticeship, fitter turner at Richardsons Westgarth in Harlepool.
Married my childhood sweetheart at 20 then proceeded to sow my wild oats and screwd anything breathing, very proud of that at the time but very ashamed of it now.
Left engineering at 33 after working at many places but enjoying none and started a career in sales. Ten years later was very successful, living in a big house in Durham, earning a fortune and living the high life, then my past caught up and payback time, found my wife of 24 years had been having an affair for 12 of them. She left, against her will, leaving me with my son who had had raised anyway.
Changed jobs, met next wife and then a man who was starting a new business so I remarried and joined the new business. Worked long and hard, built a sales force of 2 sales directors, 4 regional sales managers, 16 area sales managers and 100 sales consultants. Moved to Scarborough to prepare for retirement, drove a Jag and my share of the business was worth 1.75mil and we had decided to sell, happy days.
The man I had met was now comapany chairman, we owned racehorses, a place in Florida and a few other businesses then he did a bunk one week with the racehorses, two other directors and 20 mil plus leaving me with sweet FA.
A further divorce followed and jobs in some strange places then, I found myself in my sons flat in Durham, no money, no job and no home, was a very important time in my life, I found peace.
That was 10 years ago and over those years I got my home, retirement,a new lady, my dog and a season ticket and happiness.
Oh, and I met my first wife and found she was miserable and that man I met, the one who ran off, I was star witness at his trial and watched him sent away for 7 years, to top it all we won on Saturday.

 

It's an age thing, dementia has kicked in.

 

My name is Ian, I'm 51, married with 1 screaming **** machine, embarrassing cos he's 17, and work helping to maintain a number of residential homes for autistic adults. A rewarding job and enjoy it immensely.
As stated in an earlier thread I attended Pennywell Academy for young ladies & gentlemen. I have since moved to the leafy suburbs of Grindon.
Served an apprenticeship as an electrician for what was Sunderland PWD
Apart from SAFC my hobbies inc repairing fountain pens, trombone playing & sheep shearing.

 

I know exactly where you're coming from with cheating wives Syd. In 1997 I found out that my wife was cheating on me...............
With my brother!

Needless to say, I kicked her out, divorced her and haven't spoken to my brother since.

I found the woman of my dreams 4 years ago and I'm very happilly married now BTW, we got married in Cyprus