Me an my mates used to always stand at the back of the Fulwell when the weather was a bit ****e. Usually we always made for the Clock Stand paddocks because of the direction of the sun during the day and the fact that the Bovril was far superior in the Clock stand. Anyway, to cut a long story short we overheard a conversation between two guys standing in front of us during the game. 'Dad!', the youngest lad said to him. 'It isn't half coming in foggy, do you think they might stop the game?' ... 'your glasses are steaming up!' was his dads reply. I loved Roker.
'What you leaving early for you got a ****ing paper round??' Shouted with such passion, it creased me.
Hate people that leave early. I remember 1 game we left the clock stand paddocks (roker end) at 2-0 down and by the time we'd walked to the Fulwell end on the way towards Seaburn station we'd scored twice. It's amazing how many people then used to run back in hoping to catch the replay. I'd love to know what game that was.
In my entire 33 years I have left 1 game early, and that was the 0-4 at home to Spurs at Roker under Reidy. I think I'd ran out of snouts and that was the limit, ha.
The Indian blokes who wore turbans in the fulwell end when I was a kid used to chant 'I'd rather be a Paki than a Mag' every home game as they came in. They'd be hell on if the chanted it now.
God only knows how throughout the whole of my formative years watching the **** at Roker Park I never started smoking. I remember a game v Southampton when we were down 4-0 and we went and sat near to the Southampton fans and starting singing 'oh when the saints'! Just checked sorry it was 0-2 in 1983!!! my memory
I do partially blame the club for this habit like. Didn't exactly ease the burden of stress over the years.
Put in a claim. I've found you a solicitor that do football injuries. http://www.mulderrigs.co.uk/services/football-injuries/
not something i overheard but was funny all the same, felt for the kid to be fair.. and havent seen him for a while!! there was a steward used to be in the north stand a couple of seasons ago and he had an eye patch. Everytime he used to walk past our row he would get the obligitory argggghhhhh and the wheres your parrot line. Poor kid is probably nestled somewhere in cherry knowles cradling his pillow!!
May 1973, Cardiff away -they got a penalty at 1-1. Someone bellowed from behind the goal -"It's alnee Monty, tek yer best shot son!!" then he saved it ...we all believed he would.
Some **** called neemarejawdees shouting, ; i;ll tak ya fower inches ya placka mag ****s' on the bus home back to bishop auckland via mag **** land.
Didn't witness this one myself , but back in the 60s Liverpool were playing one of the relegation strugglers on a pudding of a pitch. A match heading for a nil - nil bore draw when the floodlights failed. In the split second of silence while everybody was trying to work out what was happening , some wag shouted out "bad play stopped light". Shankly used to tell it better.
Remember standing behind the goal in the Roker when Iain The flying pig Hesford was in goal and the football was absolutely ****e under the greedy Geordie plank (as we can all remember only too well) and the crowds were thin to say the least. You could hear everyone's conversation and on one occasion, the ball flew past a lethargic Hesford, who fell to the ground rather than dived and nestled into the bottom corner of the net for a goal. As he struggled to his feet to retrieve the ball, someone shouted loud as **** "Hesford, you wouldn't have missed that if it was a pork pie you fat twat" Cue absolute howls of laughter on the Roker End and even Hesford laughed. It helped the pain of the appalling football on offer and sticks in my mind?
Not actually at the match but on the bus into town before - it was a damp day and a young kid, maybe five years old, was using his sleeve to clear away the steam from the window rubbing his arm back and forwards for a while, eventually his mom said "Stop that - you're getting your sleeves wet" the kid looked surly and then in a loud voice said "I'm going to tell me dad you had a wee in the new bucket."
Remember playing at SOL against Tranmere when I overhead a Tranmere supporter (Scouse accent anyway) say that without Phillips Sunderland are nothing special and we will thump them today, 16:45 and it's just the 5-0 to us with Danny Dichio getting a hat trick (maybe 4) of the gaols, Sunderland typical one man team eh?
