Pre-Stoke ramble ...

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Anyone know where is best to park for this?

https://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking...l/?arriving=202310161500&leaving=202310161700

The shuttle bus to the ground is good.

Otherwise you can park around the ground, on the industrial estate, if you're early enough.

Next to the stadium is a Harvester that allow away fans and you can also park there for £3.

A bit further away on Dennis Viollett Road is a Power League complex that has a bar, which also allows in away supporters, you can park for £4.50.
 
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Bit odd that our match is the only Saturday game yet to have the officials confirmed.
 
... Saturday 21st October.

What a weird match this will be. Gooch in a red & white shirt playing against us, Neil not being booed by the home supporters for a change and the away fans wondering what team we'll put out.

After the Boro aberration we really need a positive result to get us back on track ...

... I'm going for 2-0 but hoping for 5-0, we're capable.

I'm also expecting trouble after the game so be careful down there, they have a high percentage of idiots.
Last season after we beat them 1.0 we went for a few scoops at the cricket club near the ground. Some prick marched up to one of the young lads with us and ripped the Sunderland flag of his shoulders shouting about daring to "wear that **** in HIS pub". It all kicked off briefly but a few of the sensible lads soon calmed things down.
It's made me wary of wearing my colours fir this one - some very sore losers amongst these ****ers.
Take care lads.
 
Mowbray's press conference will hopefully have good news about many key players.

I'd be happy if Ballard, Pritchard, Huggins, Ekwah, Mayenda, etc, were all available or close.

We have three important games, this week, so we'll need as many options as we can find.
 
That Stoke supporter sounds like one of us from a few seasons ago, poor sod. Hope we get the snake sacked at the weekend (even though it would boost his bank account)
 
At the start of 1976 we were due to play Stoke for an FA Cup, thousands were booked to go down.

Then a huge storm was announced to be coming and the date was moved ...

... sound familiar <yikes>

The roof could come off again if Sunderland win this game!

Dark clouds loomed over Stoke City, literally and metaphorically.

It was on January 3rd, 1976 that the club woke up to a disaster. A section of the B Block roof of the Victoria Ground’s Butler Street stand was whipped away in the worst storm of the century.
The first team saw the scale of the damage when they passed by on the train heading for an FA Cup tie against Tottenham.

Peter Shilton said: “Nothing had prepared me for the sight that greeted our eyes as the train passed the Victoria Ground. It looked as if a bomb had hit it.

“Parts of the roof lay scattered even on our training ground, some 300 yards away.”



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