This has probably been done before and I apologise if it has. Best game I've been too: 1979-80 Season SAFC vs West Ham at Roker Park 2-0 We had to beat the FA Cup Champions to guarantee promotion. Unbelievable atmosphere that night... If I remember right there was at least 45000 in Roker Park that night. As an aside, SAFC played 21 home games that season and Won 16, Drew 5. Only team in League 2 not to lose a game at home that season.
Easy for me as well - cup final the other year - just because I went with my brother and my lad (then 8?). To see my lads face as we looked down Wembley Way and saw a flood of red and white was great - we live too far away to get to the SoL often and he's the only Sunderland supporter in his school (and gets the piss taken a huge amount!!). For him to see the level of support our club has was brilliant - didn't stop him flirting with Leicester last season (the outlaws come from there) but he is firmly red and white now!!
Play offs 1990 at Newcastle but genuinely last season v Chelsea with my little lad will take some beating. I have warned him.
It changes but my current favourite is the Di Canio 3-0 at Newcastle. We went up there on the verge of relegation, absolutely destroyed Newcastle and laughed at them all the way back to the station. They were on the verge of tears
Burnley at home in promotion year. I know it's a bit predictable but the Charlton game was like no other match i ever went to.
Away at Newcastle in the sixties, won 3_0 ( yes we used to do it then as well). Neil Martin scored a header from just inside the box never seen such power, I was in the Gallowgate end and it was sheer bedlam, happy days.
Easily Newcastle 8 - 0 Shef Wed. I was in upper 6th and used to get to a handful of home matches each year (though mostly in cups and Europe), got a free seat as my uncles mate couldn't go and it was unreal. As a contrast my worst game was easily Leicester 0 Newcastle 0 (Jan 2002). Paid extra to sit in the Newcastle end (as a Leicester student i could have got a Leicester ticket for about 8 pounds but the Newcastle ticket was 20 odd) and then can't find the match stats i think I'm correct in saying there were no shots on goal. A terrible game in terrible weather and I've have preferred it if either team had won as I wanted Leicester to avoid relegation (they didn't avoid it).
Putting 73 to one side because of the emotion attached the game that lives with me is V Spurs in the 6th round of the FA cup in 1961. Spurs were as good as champions and full of internationals and ours was the rebuild following relegation. Spurs scored first but we attacked the Roker end in the second half and were totally relentless and only their goalie and some desperate defending kep them alive. Roker Park was packed out and the crush so great that kids had been passed down over the fence and sat round the running track. We finally equalised and Roker erupted as only it could but unfortunately the kids charged onto the pitch in their excitement and the game stopped for ten or so minutes. Once it calmed down the Spurs captain Danny Blanchflower just went in for total defence and the game died away. They went on to do the double but by God we frightened the life out of them.
Probably not the best but a game that stands out was us beating Oxford 7-0 on a very sunny day. It was a free corporate day out and it was a black n whiter who was paying for it. Heaven.
Blackburn 1: Sunderland 1, Sept 1989 I'm lying about the match, as I can't remember any of it. But had a cracking day out.... heading over the top in a transit, via the pubs in Kirkby Stephen. drunk as lords listening to the Stone Roses full blast for the first time. being more than a bit daft along the way, but fairly harmless fun.
Versus Man City in 1973 sticks in the mind, but the next season we beat Derby 3-0 in the league cup (they were top dogs then as well). We were beautiful...... x
