Makes you wonder how SAFC's season might have been if they'd played Whickham instead of Dozy Jozy* (Not forgetting their countless red cards, own goals and **** performances obviously )
Good for you, Funky. Just because we pass comments on this forum when Sunderland are brought into a discussion doesn't mean we "can't deal with it"! I can honestly say that the matter only ever crosses my mind when it's touched upon here!
He's certainly now living up to all the hype about him when he was a young kid at Ipswich. Big, strong ****er with an eye for goal.
I have to say on reflection after reading this thread that if I see a black cat on the road in front of me I will accelerate sharply rather than slam the anchors on.
When did they become The Black Cats? I don't ever remember that nickname being used when I was younger.
Oh dear, I seem to have hit a nerve. I think your post was very poor and unnecessary; it didn't come across as tongue-in-cheek, just bitter and snide. Why am I protecting my own? I am an hull City supporter, the same as you, I simply live up here - or do some of the strange arguments I have read on this board today, regarding who you are allowed to support, mean I must support Sunderland? I don't recall you taking up your issues about my stance regarding the owners on the relevant threads. By the way, I think if you look back, way, way back, you might find an example of me admitting I was wrong, looking up the facts and thanking Beverley_Tiger_998 for correcting me. In fact, I'm teasing you, it was today, about the Sunderland penalty - but I wouldn't expect you to be interested in that, after all, it's football talk. Are you going to use your wonderful quote finder to show me all of those quotes where I have called folk ****s? If you've finished your little rant, I'll go and get ****ed now. PS I'm sorry you've got a little widger.
Funny, whenever he's been mentioned on our own board there always seems to be a Hull fan lurking with a handbag to grasp. Black Cats Nickname The link between SAFC and the Black Cats goes back almost 200 years but only recently has the name was adopted by the club. For many years the team was known by a variety of nicknames - including the Rokerites and the Rokermen. When the club moved from Roker Park in 1997 these were no longer relevant. The club therefore decided to ask the most important people - its supporters - to choose a definitive nickname. Fans sent suggestions which were eventually narrowed down to five final options being: the Black Cats, the Light Brigade, the Miners, the Sols and the Mackems. Over 11,000 people voted on the club's official website, safc.com, and almost half of them preferred the 'Black Cats' name. By choosing this nickname the red and white army nodded firmly in the direction of tradition. The link between Sunderland AFC and the black cat stems originally from a gun battery in 1805 on the River Wear which was renamed the 'Black Cat' battery after the men manning the station heard a mysterious miaow from a wailing black cat. A hundred years later in 1905, a black cat was pictured sitting on a football next to Chairman FW Taylor and three years later a black cat featured on a team photograph. Black cats featured in several Sunderland AFC related cartoons in local papers before the first world war while the press reported that at the FA Cup Final many Sunderland supporters wore red and white button holes with a black cat tie pin. Sunderland's match programmes of the 1930's often featured black cats on their covers, but the place of the black cat in Sunderland folklore was sealed when a black kitten owned by twelve-year-old Billy Morris was believed to bring Sunderland luck as it sat in his pocket at Wembley throughout the 1937 FA Cup Final when Sunderland came from behind to beat Preston 3-1. For years a black cat also resided at Roker Park, and was fed and watered by the football club. The Sunderland Supporters' Association have had the black cat as their emblem since their formation in the 1960's. Today, club mascots Samson and Delilah entertain supporters every match day at the Stadium of Light. And so, Sunderland AFC became known as the Black Cats.
Don't worry about them - you'll find that the fans who go on other teams' boards tend to be the least perceptive.
Sloppy old ****. No nerve hit. Which post was "very poor and unnecessary"? The original one you quoted? That wasn't my original post daft twat. I wouldn't expect you to see the humour in my original post as your sense of it is lacking. I don't have issues with your views on our owners, I didn't say that I did. I simply pointed out your hypocrisy in suggesting I should be kissing the arse of Sunderland because they were nice to us in the past. I'm sorry that me preferring Sunderland to be relegated offends you so. My widgee may be small but it's busy & I do have 17 stone to hammer it in with so don't be sorry for me. (I really only said it was a diddy one to discourage the Sunderland dwellers from grooming me)
Wasn’t at the game, but I remember it being reported that Colin Clarke rounded him twice for one of his goals against us (Ternent’s last match, 5-1 loss at Pompey – NYD I think). His attitude on that docu “Kick in the Balkans” was absolutely embarrassing, ignorant and deeply ungracious towards his hosts.
We have some wonderful, intelligent visitors who visit our board, we also get twats, who coincidently, all support the same team.
Well, I'm pretty sure it isn't usually me... Cheers for that. Just goes to show that, deep down, I have little interest in the goings-on at your club!
He seemed to think it was amusing when he let in a goal. Fat ****. Losing Tony Norman put us on the slippery slope to the third tier......
I ****ing loved Tony Norman man, and clean forgot, or didn't know, as I was 6 or 7 when we signed him, that he came from Hull. Another reason to support you in the cup final. My 3rd ever away game was at West Ham in the FA Cup Quarter final in 1992, we won 3-2 and my memory of that game was Norman, a ****ing unit but he had some grace in the dive, flying across and tipping over a Tim Breaker piledriver with his trailing hand, it was incredible. Love him, joined the coppers after he quit playing, total gent.
