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Your first match memory.
Your first match memory.
My first game was to be the change of all changes. Lawrie macmenemy had rolled into town after we had been relegated from the first division. So, division two it was. Blackburn rovers were our first game of the season with big dave swindlehurst leading the line along side Eric gates. It was as I remember a bright sunny day with a breeze off the North Sea (when's there not) I remember getting to the fulwell end turnstile and hearing as the gate twisted, programs, 50 pee a program...lol. We'll that little Yorkshire bloke was one of my memories but the biggest thing I can remember is walking up the steps at the fulwell end reaching the summit and seeing the pitch for the first time, wow, the measured lines of the turf, a colour of green that cleopatra would of been proud to adorn, straight and lush, every blade immeasurably standing to attention. I'll not go on to much as the football was nowt to write home about.
17/08/1985
3pm K.O.
Sunderland 0 v Blackburn 2
21,000 (I think)
17/08/1985
3pm K.O.
Sunderland 0 v Blackburn 2
21,000 (I think)
Re: Your first match memory.
That was something special for me many times over in the mid seventies right through to the eighties
The first time at Roker Park is a distant memory.
We were walking home from the beach and the gates were open so we thought we would pop in.
There were very few people in and I have no idea who we playing, it could have been a reserve game or the end part of a defeat, I have no idea.
It was just another adventure for us and it was before we won the cup so maybe about 1971 or 1972.
The first full match is another thing I have no recollection of because we would never pay in, it was something we just did for "something to do"
If I am not mistaken though, shortly after we won the cup in 1973, I think we had had a friendly with Spurs and we saw the whole game (we got beat 1-0 or 2-1 maybe but I do know we got beat).
Sorry about the lack of detail but it was a long time ago and it wasn't until we won the cup that we would take football seriously.
Getting into Roker Park was just run-of-the-mill stuff for us and we loved all the different ways you could do this
..... and Sunderland, the underdogs, are in the lead!
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Re: Your first match memory.
We had many spuggies tickets.
I had to do a little check online and I would say the game I remember most was on Saturday 22nd February 1975 when we played Fulham at Roker Park.
That score was Sunderland 1-2 Fulham and we were behind the goal and if I could get the name right I think their goalkeeper was Peter Mellor who played a blinder.
There were games before this but I think the Fulham game is one I remember most for some reason.
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Re: Your first match memory.
I can't remember either it would have been some second division game I reckon.
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Re: Your first match memory.
Yeah only the young ones will remember the Premier League as a first match memory
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Re: Your first match memory.
I will have to pass on this one but I loved watching from the Fulwell End.
If I get my thinking head on a game might come back to me.
If I get my thinking head on a game might come back to me.
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Re: Your first match memory.
Us too but we had other tickets as wellSunderland Nut wrote: ↑27 Jan 2020, 22:31
Me and my mates could only afford a spuggies ticket them days.
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