Even though we've gotten 2 wins and 2 draws from the last 4 derbies, I still dread derby days. I look forward to them all season, then the few days before a derby, and taking that slow walk up them steps at SJP to my seat, I'm ****ting myself. I personally wonder if drinking before the game would help or not. After a drink I feel less upset after conceding a goal, I don't get that same gut wrenching feeling, but when we score a goal, I don't feel as buzzed as I would if I was sober. So drinking is a bit of a gamble. Takes the sting out of defeat, but takes a bit of the buzz out of victory. That's just me though, don't know how you lads feel. Defeat certainly seems to effect a lot of your emotions, a lot more than victory does. Anyways, back to the point - Quality, form and all that goes out the window. No excuses, no whinging, it's just an all out war. No one would care if they won by a cheap pen, but they'd be angry as **** if they lost by one. In a way I hate and love Cattermole on derby days. He's a **** and some of the challenges he's made on toon players in the last few derbies have been disgraceful, but he seems to spark the emotions that we all expect to be present on derby days. He always seems to do something that gets me all pissed off, but without things like this, it wouldn't be a north east derby. I call him worse than ****, but part of me thinks he's a vital part of a north east derby. That blood and guts. Catts, Bardsley, Mclean, Tiote, Cabaye, all aggressive ****s, but all help make a north east derby what we want it to be, in that ****ed up, perverse part of our brains, that has developed from our barbarian ancestors. Anyways, do you look forward to or dread a derby day?
Good post Tash. I feel pretty much the same tbh. Two days before hand I get moody & irritable as ****. On the morning of the game nothing I do can take my mind off things. I pace the floor & start to worry. I've not took the bairn to a derby yet for fear of some stupid twat lobbing something so I would normally meet my mates, where depends on the kick off time. A few beers flow & the craic starts, good stuff too as we are from both sides. Been like that for years. The tension will always be there, the desperation to be the victor. Afterwards it's either devestation, elation or just a mild satisfaction with the result. Smugness, anger & goading too. I guess most of us would be the same really. At the end of the day, there's no real difference between us lad.
Both, no better feeling than winning, no worse than losing. And it pisses me off when people complain about people being dirty, that's what a derby is all about imho.
Do you sit near the away fans or something? I realise we have some fans that are ****s, but I think if you can get a seat away from our fans you'd be alright with your son. No danger. Maybe you'll meet a woman one day, ones that's got red and white blood and will love your bairn to bits, a perfect lass for you, that you can go with I'd be happy to hear that you and your son could go to a Sunderland match with great woman who's also passionate about your team, and will love you and your son, and you could support them together
Lol, we were last season. I had the perfect woman who had BLACK & white blood in her viens lad. I was thinking more of the going in & coming out. I know they put those ****ing security tunnel things up but I not taking any risks. Wouldn't like to be in the north stand next derby day as away fans are being moved above that.
At the end of the day, I wish the best for you and your lad, but I hope we crush you. Anyone got a link for the cancer research thing we started? I remember donating a bit of money, I might want to donate some more, since I've had a great job for the last few months and have money just sitting in my bank account doing nothing.
It will be way way down the list now mate. Donate it to Badgers that he started for his mam. It's for the same thing. Good luck with the job Tash, pleased it's going well.
Cheers mate. It's only part time, and I'm only earning around 4-500 quid a month, but for a 20 year old guy that still lives with his great parents, it's a decent earning, and it's only on my doorstep, and I don't have to pay any travel fees. I don't spend too much so I'm earning great money I suppose. I spend a bit here and there, but not that much. I'm hoping to have 15k saved up around my 22nd birthday and get my own place. Anyways, since I don't spend much and have a lot of money saved up, I'm willing to give a bit more to cancer research.
Derby days = Richard Widmarks in the underpants for me. I suppose they're a bit like a distant family member you don't see very often and think is a bit of a twat. You love them, but you don't really like them.
Regarding trouble at derby games..I really don't think it is much of a problem these days, and I don't think twice about taking my lads to these games..
I love them, nothing gives you that feeling in the pit of your stomach like the derby. Heading to the ground the electricity in the air I imagine not dissimilar to walking into battle in olden days.
Any fan that says they dont enjoy derbies is not a true fan imo. As a Sunderland fan or a maggot fan, this will be the first fixture they look at next Monday when the new list comes out. Sure, nerves and such like come in to play but the tension and pre match/post match stuff is why we love it so much. As ever, I cant wait for the derby games next season.
Love them..even from afar.. Always a good night with a load of mates, who for 90mins become the devils own children... Please please just for once let us beat them so as i can return the ****ing grief...****ers,
It's definitely one of the first fixtures to look for, and as I said in my thread, I look forward to it before and throughout the season, up until the few days before it, and walking up the steps to my seat, that's when I start ****ting myself a bit. So I should say, I look forward to them, I'm excited to be part of the match day atmosphere and being with the fans, but at the same time I'm totally ****ting myself. This one match can effect your season dramatically!
In my opinion 'enjoy' is not the word I would use... I regard myself as a fairly grounded and rational person but that all goes out of the window when it comes to the derby... They pull at the emotions like nothing else does and has a major impact on my life from at least a week before the games..
Im sorry but this is what life in all about these feelings, not much makes me feel so alive as the excitment and even the pain of these games! I understand the horrible feeling of the build up but god its great in a weird way, without these games i dont think football would mean much to me any more.
I know people who hate them season ticket holders aswell from both sides. Suppose some people don't have the stomach for it. I relish it, can't any still for a week before hand. Only feeling that comes close for me is a big boxing match. I was ill with nerves for Lewis - Tyson and my stomach was doing somersualts for Haye - Klitschko
