Roker Park memories.

Am I alone in thinking that violence of any kind is for scum?
Every club has its morons and that tale just proves it.

 

No, your not alone Albert's, two games in particular

those held at Roker Park in 1967 and 1970.


This is the 1967 game.


Once inside the groond, ah noticed that the fans were split 50-50 doon the middle of the terraces, with the Toon fans on the left hand side of the the Fulwell goal and the mackems on the other side. It was wot yi would caall 'self segregation', and the fans just went where they wanted, and stood with their 'own kind', which is unthinkable these days!. (especially at a Derby match against 'the sworn enemy'!) Amazingly, the attendance was just ower 46,000 which was well below the groonds capacity at the time. (aroond 60,000)


There was a fantastic atmosphere just before kick off, with the Toon fans singin' a little ditty towards the mackems to the tune of 'The Beatles' classic 'Yellow Submarine', which went sommik like: "We all p**s in a red 'n' white pot!"
(it was aall good natured hatred back then!


A mackem, who was comin' doon the stairs, telt wih in a dispairin' voice that Newcastle had equalised!. (Can yih imagine THAT happenin' nuw??) (Yi'd probably get a smack in the gob!) and me and Denny danced wildly on the Fulwell stairs!




I've read on different threads over the years, where does the hatred come from...well something changed drastically between these two dates.

 

Lee Clark also graced the field for Sunderland but didn't play much after the 1999 FA Cup Final, believe it was something to do with a t-shirt he was wearing.

A true black and white.

 

In the blood Sid, in the blood.

You can't change some things.

I saw him walking down Wembley Way.

 

All this ultra violence reminds me of A Clockwork Orange, same era.

 

Thought he might have been an in betweeny.

 

Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.


A Clockwork Orange 1971...Kubrick’s...



Writer, John Anthony Burgess Wilson.


In 1962 Burgess was inspired to write A Clockwork Orange during a visit to Leningrad in 1961.


But enough of words.

 

Let's just widen the picture here a little bit...




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It was the era at the astart of some extreme violence and football still has its hooligan supporters.

OP: brilliant thread, fascinating reading.

 

Says a lot about 'true black and white)s.

 

My Favourite memory is the day the bulldozed the place!!! LOL . All those years of history and still saw fit to level it to ground!! Typical Mackems!!!

 

Do you still live in wattle and daub house?

 

Sea mist and seeing Liverpool beat them.

 

Do you guys actually like Senior taperecorder?

 

Agreed ACS the poor old bloke in the allottment fcking hell what a bunch of tossers

 

A gadgie in a pair of wellies, who mindin' his own business, was lovingly tendin' his prized leaks in his greenhouse, when aall of a sudden a couple of hudred or so Leazes Boot Boys, who were packed tightly into the lane, broke his piece and desended on him. They started pullin' the wooden fences doon aroond his allotment to use as weapons against the mackems at Seaburn as the gadgie looked on horrified.

His greenhouse was soon reduced to a pile of broken glass as he cowered behind his leeks and cabbages as the mob went wild!
To be perfectly honest I felt sorry for him as he obviously hadn't been to the match and probably hated football anyway! (if he didn't then—HE WOULD NOW!)



Even amongst all that mindless violence and insanity that was taken place, there still seems to be a little bit of sanity left...


Thank fcking hell no one laid a finger on the old boy...




“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible”
― George Santayana


“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.”
― George Santayana

 

fixed