What a difference - City Fans 2014 v Pompey Fans 2019

[Blue Feather]

Had a good drink with some Mackems on Saturday after we'd been to Fulham….. great bunch but closed a few of the pubs we wanted to go in, there were loads of them :-) Howay the lads and good luck for promotion

PS : Thanks for Dave and Dennis.....Mick and Craig didn't work out quite as well !!

 

[Citizen Green]

Lot of time for the Mackem's hope you get promoted! Just don't do what we did and go up another division too quickly ;)

 

[FrankSwift1]

Spoke and drank with loads of Sundeland at the final in 14. Also remember the relagation game when we won 3-2 at Maine road.

Reminded me of City fans before the takeover. Always look out for their results now. Hope your back where you belong soon.

 

[Fordyboy46]

All the best for going up mate, Sunderland the North East's number 1.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I was on a campsite some years ago in Brittany. Further round the site was a Sunderland fan. My kids engaged with his, told him I was a City fan. Asked straight away if I was from Manchester. Seemed to know that the answer would be affirmative. Opening game of the season, I think, was Sunderland and I suffered a rather heavy scoreline - 4-1, I believe, and rather gallantly he draped his Sunderland shirt over the bonnet of my car.

I still have a chuckle over the Mackem taxi driver from the Sunderland Doc complaining about no report in the Daily Mail of their weekend game.

Contrast my experience further up the north east coast. '55 and the bastards scored in the first minute. Never warmed to those Barcodes like I have with Sunderland.

 

[Bozo]

And who could forget...?

 

[Dougy Giro]

My first away game was at City on 16/10/82, it was a 2-2-draw, 25K there and I was squashed to bits on the Kippax. Coming from a pit village Moss Side was a bit of an eye opener in 1982 to say the least!

We went to OT for our first away game in a car, as opposed to a supporters coach, as 14 year olds (with an adult driver who was a United fan), and that was the first (and only) time we got jumped on, heading back to the car park by 4/5 men, so never exactly liked them since then; self righteous twats who think its fine to take the piss out of us for going down (again), but spat their dummy out big style with us because of the Poznan.

When we brought big numbers down in 91, and Quinny scored, I could only get tickets for the Main Stand opposite the Kippax and it was a 39K sell out. Still ranks as one of the best away days ever, despite the result and yet another relegation!

 

[Abattoir Blue]

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When we brought big numbers down in 91, and Quinny scored, I could only get tickets for the Main Stand opposite the Kippax and it was a 39K sell out. Still ranks as one of the best away days ever, despite the result and yet another relegation!

I was 11 on the Kippax and still remember the noise when Gabbiadini equalised (what a header btw).

Had a big soft spot for Sunderland ever since - Hope you bounce back this year

 

[Mike N]

I remember feeling bad for the Sunderland fans that day. They were so gutted to lose but were dignified in defeat. If they’d have been playing any other team that day I’d have been on their side.

Let’s hope they make it back up to the top soon.

 

[Tbilisi]

Having come back from yet another defeat at Wembley, my 6th with Sunderland, I just wanted to say (which EVERY other Sunderland fan I have spoken to has mentioned), how fantastic the City fans were that day, (and I know a lot of our lot said it 5 years ago too) compared to the Pikey c*nts from Portsmouth on Sunday.

City fans were good crack, showed a lot of class when winning easy in the end by not taking the piss, and genuinely wishing us good luck for the season ahead. Every person I spoke to that weekend from City was spot on, and had all been through with City what we are going through now.

Compare that to the Portsmouth fans, who were allowed to but 6 tickets per season ticket holders meaning there were loads of day trippers there who have never been to a game, it was edgy before the game, with Pompey fans throwing cans at the Sunderland fans, and gobbing on them from the bridge at Wembley Way, and after the game, loads of coked up Pikeys wanting a confrontation, goading the Sunderland fans, singing Northern Monkey Wankers etc.

A fair few scuffles were reported, and overall a large minority of their fans were arseholes (I know we have a few too) who were equally happy you have a go in the faces of pensioners, families and young kids, as they were small groups / fellas on their own.


Anyhow, good luck for the rest of the season, and the vast majority of Sunderland fans will be rooting for you!

Sunderland a class club and fans.

Our kid and his mate couldnt get a ticket so went to Harrow to watch on TV.

Outnumbered by Sunderland but not a hint of any shit, real men not like those pikey southern pompey twats.

He could hardly stand up when I met him after the match.