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SAFC Players During The War

August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 by Ryehill

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Usworth Colliery Welfare AFC Winners Of The Northumberland & Durham Challenge Cup 1940 & 1941 Top Row - T Oliver, F Archer, Hastings (captain), Hewison, Lockie, Middleton, Henderson, Cowell, Harris (Treasurer) Front Row - Heslop (South Shields), Dodds (Aston Villa), Kelly (Bury), Potts (Burnley), Hourigan, R Watson (Secretary) Ryehill Football…

Illegal Payments Scandal

August 23, 2016August 24, 2016 by Ryehill

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The Illegal Payments Scandal 1957 Sunderland AFC Introduction To understand the illegal payments scandal of 1957 there must be an understanding of what the Football League rules were as regards what was known as the maximum wage. As we shall see it was Sunderland’s breaking of this written rule that…

Sunderland AFC And The Bilbao Connection

August 23, 2016July 7, 2020 by Ryehill

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The Sunderland team lineup before the game with Athletic Bilbao on 13 May 1934, the first on a 3 match end of season Spanish tour. The game ended 3 v 3. Davis, Thomson, Johnson, McNab, Hastings, Gurney, W Murray, Shaw, Middleton, Gallacher, Connor Watch a live Ahtletic Bilbao La…

Roker Park; Home

August 22, 2016August 15, 2017 by Ryehill

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Roker Park, Sunderland - 1898 to 1997 RokerPark - The Main Stand It was the Henderson Brothers, one of whom was the Sunderland AFC Chairman who recognised the need for a bigger ground. They negotiated farmland belonging to a Mr Tennant. The agreement was conditional on Sunderland agreeing that houses…

Gary Rowell’s Goals!

August 22, 2016August 22, 2016 by Ryehill

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Born 6 June 1957 at Seaham, County Durham, Gary Rowell became an SAFC legend and one of the few men to have scored over 100 goals for the football club. In Rowell's case; 103. He became the first post war Sunerland AFC since Len Shackleton to do so. The table…

Sunderland AFC 1960/61 Season

August 21, 2016August 21, 2016 by Ryehill

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The Swinging 60's Sunderland players take a break from training 1960/61 season The 1960's would be the decade when the home of football would eventually rule the world. The first global tournament was held in Chile 1962, and despite a quarter final place for England it was Brazil who would…

James Allan – The Founder Of Sunderland AFC

August 21, 2016September 22, 2020 by Ryehill

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James Allan School Master, Footballer, Football Administrator Born - 9 October 1857, Green Street, Ayr, Scotland Died - 18 October 1911, Elmwood Street, Sunderland, England James Allan pictured second from the left in the middle row in the earliest surviving image of an SAFC team Sunderland AFC was formed by…

The Original Sunderland Black Cat

August 19, 2016August 19, 2016 by Ryehill

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The Black Cats Tribute To Dave Hillam (RIP) Left; Sunderland players Harry Low, George Holley, Billy Cringan, George Anderson, Harry Ness and captain charlie Thomson tend to the Sunderland AFC Black Cat, together with an unknown person far left. The Cat lived in the box you can see filled with…

Sunderland AFC; The War Years

August 19, 2016August 23, 2016 by Ryehill

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Sunderland AFC; The War Years Raich Carter scores at Roker Park in the 1942 War Cup final against Wolverhampton Wanderers The 1938-39 season was played against the backdrop of peace in our time, with some players joining the Territorial Army and the Football Association and Football League discussing plans…

Charlie Buchan; From Sunderland To The Somme

August 19, 2016December 19, 2017 by Ryehill

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Charlie Buchan From Sunderland to the Somme Two icons meet. Charlie Buchan and cricketing legend Sir Jack Hobbs mull over the sporting world of their times. Charlie Buchan was one of the all time Sunderland greats, and pre war perhaps the finest striker England produced. He stood an impressive…

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