Just for bit of fun, can you stick on any pictures with anything to do with the game. Be it players, goals, celebrations, memories, footy babes, or just iconic moments, owt you like really. Cheers, will give us all something to look at, and comment on. First one has to be our finest hour. please log in to view this image The lads celebrate. please log in to view this image One of my favorite moments. please log in to view this image One you maybe remember please log in to view this image Don't know what arry's saying please log in to view this image Come on lads choose some of your favorites.
A goal scoring machine! (and 'hard' as well) please log in to view this image http://www.safc.com/page/ClubHistoryDetailMore/0,,10281~1742914,00.html Latest News: 04 August, 2009 1961: Brian Clough, meet Sunderland and the Roker Roar "One of the reasons I never became England manager was because the FA thought I would take over and run the show," Clough once said. Brian Clough "They were dead right." One of the most controversial men in English football during his playing and managerial career, Brian Clough was quite simply a 'one off'. Born in Middlesbrough in March 1935, at the age of 18 he signed for his hometown side. He made his League debut in 1955, scoring the first of his multitude of goals a month later. By the time he was transferred to Sunderland in 1961 he had already scored 198 goals in 214 League appearances. When he finally retired in 1965 he had scored a total of 251 goals in only 274 games. Awesome, no other word for it. If Clough had been showing off his talents in the First Division rather than the Second, then he would surely have been selected more often for England. Len Shackleton said 'he was the greatest centre-forward I ever saw. Clough scored goals more consistently than anybody else did and that's a centre-forward's job. He would have shattered the record of Dixie Dean had he played against similar style defences.' He became the youngest manager in the Football League when he took over the reins at Hartlepool United in October 1965, and led them to promotion before taking over at Derby County in 1967. His managerial exploits were as extraordinary as his playing career. He was, after all, only the second manager in the history of British football to take two different teams to English Championships. That he did so with the relatively 'unfashionable' outfits of Derby County and Nottingham Forest is an even greater tribute. He also went on to win two European Cups with Forest. His spell on Wearside was all too brief, but at the time very, very exciting. To many it is a great shame that he never came back to manage Sunderland. Clough himself once said that he would have crawled up the M1 on hands and knees over broken glass to be manager at Roker Park. For most of the late 60's and 70's his name was often linked to the job, but it was never to be. Who knows what might have happened with him at the helm?
If I remember right that was the game with the streaker for charity, pink suit was to do with cancer charity, come on lads, help me out. Clattenburg is the ref, sure he is and he had cancer that why the streaker ran to him.
Eddie Hapgood (Arsenal, left) gets sick of someone. Circa 1953 Jackie Mudie (Blackpool) tries training methods with Big George Young of Rangers.
some great stuff to look at! got nowt myself but would like to make a comment re Clough. Would have loved him to be our manager - like everyone else I think - but I have it on good authority that we were always only a bargaining chip to get him big wages. Sorry to burst any bubbles. I love the man but he was never coming here.
Four of the great team from 1912-13, league champions and FA Cup fianlists. Charlie Buchan, Jackie Mordue, Geordie Holley and Charlie Thompson. Click to enlarge.
