Coventry West Ham Brentford Can anyone recall 3 consecutive home game creating atmosphere like these 3 games. I certainly can't.
I was at the Everton match, when we secured safety under Big Sam with a 3-0 win! Woke up the next morning and I’d lost my wedding ring! Must have flown off with all the clapping!
That Chelsea game was the one mind. Khazris volley then coming from 2-1 down second half. Think that's the game that kept us up really. A draw kept it in our hands but the win with the mags drawing at Villa pretty much secured it for us
I bet it was - I remember having to go and stand in the garden as full time approached - couldn’t stand the stress!
As long as the players are putting in the same effort, the atmosphere will carry on being superb all season
2 of my best pals in world are Chelsea lads I met that day. We got chatting in town after and they said exactly that ‘crazy in there’ See them couple times a year we’ve had some mad times. Forever in my memory that day it was berserk.
I think he means when Mitrovic was interviewed after their game at Villa and was told Sunderland had beat Chelsea
Few close. Sheff United playoffs. Just a wall of endless noise. Burnley. Carlos rocket. Bedlam. From the banks of the Wear. Spurs 3-1. Bent missing pens for a laugh - was feverish that day absolutely rocking, Spurs fans were quality as well added to it. Scum 2-1 Richardson.We knew it was the day. I don’t think we will ever eclipse Coventry, not for any other reason than that was just absolute max. We can’t match it. We will, we weren’t far off v West Ham was just less ‘charged’.
Was too young to fully enjoy any of these as in I was under 18 at the time, remember that burnley game ofc my first solo season ticket got a half one at christmas must of been 14 The coventry game for me, was the whole build up from the minute the whistle blew on the first leg to the game, marketing, the bus route, the tifo the noise, the drama, the random woman who hadnt been there in all season who had me in a headlock when we scored
I’d love to know how the fella who went fully arbourne over my head got on (I’m 6ft), he was literally doing the silly salmon though the air. Wild scenes. Incredible night.
He did another one a few weeks before the Burnley one but I can't remember who we were playing. I was pregnant and unwell with complications. I'd had to stop work early and rest and I was feeling quite down. My Mam and Dad had been talking and decided I needed a special treat to cheer me up. My Mam was thinking of a spa day but my Dad bought me match tickets! We were in the front row of the East Stand. Before I went, Mam had been lecturing us about me taking it easy and not jumping around. The Edwards fired in a rocket and came over to celebrate right in front of us, so of course I was jumping around like a loon! We sat back down and my Dad looked at me with his serious face on and said "lets not tell your mother about this." Then he started worrying in case she watched tele highlights and saw us jumping around like idiots together
Southampton I wanna say? He was superb Carlos without the injury he may well have been a PL star. Was never the same. He was a joy to watch when he was flying. Lush story that I had a reet smirk reading it. That’s a proper Sunderland fan story on every level. Your dad sounds a legend ‘the match will sort it’. Superb.
He was. I miss him so much. He'd have loved everything that's happened from the end of last season till now. I had my second baby during the 98/99 season. He was born in the February and I was breastfeeding but then I caught a chest infection in the April that wiped me out and had to put him on bottles which I was upset about. Dad bought match tickets for the final match and said I had to leave the baby and celebrate promotion with him as that would sort me out When I was a baby, my Mam caught the flu so my Dad said he'd take me out for the day so she could rest in bed. Where would a Dad take a 1 year old baby girl? You'd think the park or somewhere like that. Nope he took me on a tour of Roker Park please log in to view this image
Class Same as I said to Chunk lass. Jus lt believe he’s up there watching all this proud of you, the bairns and the club. My Dads a Mag. Seriously. Hylton Castle family my dad’s lot and he’s a Mag. No reason why other than rebellion as a child as far as I can decipher. Rest of them (he is one of 13) all Sunderland daft and 10 of them season tickets some of them be 50 years deep or more. He’s been a wonderful parent but he knows he’s getting red and white flowers at his cremation I’ve told him as much. It’s our thing. I buy him Mackem things. He’s not a ‘one of them’ Mags of course he was on the phone to me straight after Ballard and not too long after Tommy, but he’s one of them and I will say it’s always been a shame to me to not share them moments with him. Pals I went school with seeing their Wembley pics with their dads and stuff was beautiful, not that mine weren’t with life long pals and the red and white army but I’d have loved to have shared these times with my dad. My Mam is the most Mackem person ever, accent, mentality, Sunderland above everything, will never leave. She appreciates the joy the dirty can bring without actually being into it. Didn’t see her until 15 days after Wembley as was straight away on holiday but the rubbing bear hug I got when I didn’t let me relive Wembley all over again. Football can be cruel, but my god when it’s beautiful. Dan took me to Sunderland and Newcastle in the same midweek in 1988 and said ‘you choose’ Wasn’t a choice. Was love at first sight at Roker Park in with the Vaux lads in the Clock Stand.
