I was a regular in the Roker End at Roker Park and i'm hard pressed to think of a game where i wasn't freezing my bollocks off. When that wind blew off the North Sea that stadium must have been the coldest in football.
Had one of those days in January 1958, sleety spray howled across the pitch into the Fulwell End whole game, even the penguins left at half time. .
And there was a bloke in front of me with shorts on. Didn't know if I should tell someone in authority to get him sectioned!
April 2006, Sunderland v Fulham match abandoned after 21 mins due to snow blizzard. The chant was welcome to springtime in Sunderland!
It has to be one of the mildest winters on record, so perhaps we have been spoiled, and the first coldish day that comes along people are feeling it..
They're probably better but I like how thin silk socks are while doing a surprisingly good job, not a fan of bulky socks. It was my dad got me onto them, I thought he was mad going on about silk socks but he was right.
Came up from Wales in the eighties one particularly freezing January with just a Sunderland shirt and a shell suit top on, I'll show em i thought, Wind sleet and ice howling in like a Banshee. At least one fooka with nee shirt on ffs.