crowd expected for Saturday's game. Another crowd in excess of 40,000 is expected at the Stadium of Light this weekend when Stoke City visit Wearside (Saturday 4th October, KO 3pm). Tickets for the game remain available priced from £25 adults, £19 over-65s and just £10 for under-16s. Purchasing your seat is quick and easy - to buy in person, simply call in at the Stadium of Light ticket office, which is open 9am-5.30pm Monday-Friday as well as from 10am up until kick-off on matchdays. Meanwhile tickets are available 24 hours a day via the Ticket Hotline (0871 911 1973) as well as the popular online ticket office. Phenomenal supporters us like, the optimism is here, lets hope for 3 points
We may be frustrated but we know we have a decent stadium, decent owner, decent manager and a decent squad. We have 40,000 decent supporters with very few exceptions. We don't riot in the streets, have funeral marches & protests and don't trash our own town. We don't cheat and aren't a dirty side, we try to play football and generally welcome decent supporters of other clubs. Surely to ****, after years of good support home & away we deserve a bit of glory. I'll be there on Saturday, as I was last Saturday, involving a 300 mile round trip. I spent last night at the first meeting of the 'Notts SAFC supporters collective' to make it easier for Midlands based people to travel to games. Now I'm back in the country I can galvanise people into attending games like I did when I ran a weekly 45 seater coach from Mansfield 40 years ago. I've met hundreds of 'expats' like me who do their best to bully/cajole/beg people into keeping the faith .......... I'm not blowing my own trumpet, I don't need to, just giving an example of what happens away from the Sunderland area and probably goes unnoticed by many people. Dunno why I just posted all that tbh, I've just had a bang on the head moving a bed for a neighbour
Fair play, it happens all over the country, safc still have the largest london supporters branch to this day, and the midlands might i add
Stoke are giving supporters free transport, this season, so it will hopefully increase their usual poor turn out
I met up with the Northern Ireland supporters branch in the Botanic Inn in Belfast a few years ago. There's around 80 of them & they have about 60 season tickets between them. We played Coventry that day & won 2-1. After the match we had a canny swally & then went to this Chinese restaurant called The Fooking Fiver. All meal five notes. After that, we went out on the hoy again. A cracking bunch of lads, all in all, a very enjoyable day. Eamon Lavery, you are a top lad.
