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Salut! History March 30, 2012

Tony Benn and an early Sunderland chant: ‘peanuts, tanner a bag’

What is the first chant you remember hearing at Roker Park, or which early chant or song has lingered longest in the memory? The Fulwell singing along to the chorus of the Monkees’ I’m a Believer doesn’t count.

Tyne-Wear derby: Sunderland fan commemorates Newcastle player who caught his eye

West Brom is beginning to be no more than a bad memory. Not entirely true, of course, but it is time to start thinking ahead to Sunday – early in any ordinary week, but derby week (even if Newcastle United v Sunderland takes place, strictly speaking, next week) is never ordinary. John McCormick is a [...]

Tottenham v Sunderland: ordeals at the Lane, fun in the snow

At roughly this time last year, Salut! Sunderland pulled together some reminiscences of visits to White Hart Lane in previous seasons. The cold snap that saw snowfall in parts of Britain today – including a few flakes in London – brought back memories of a 3-3 draw in the bleak midwinter, a good enough excuse [...]

The Johnny Crossan Story (3): who was ‘brilliant’, who was ‘priceless’?

Only tiny glimpses of Johnny Crossan, from after his SAFC days, in this clip of a 4-1 home defeat of Man City by Chelsea. In one of them he acts as peacemaker after Mike Summerbee appears to stamp on Eddie McCreadie. But it has been a privilege to run the interview with him, not least [...]

The Johnny Crossan Story (2): hero with ‘a wee bit venom’

Where were we? This is the second part of the Johnny Crossan interview. There will be a third, coming soon, and the first can be seen here. The amount of time Johnny was willing to give up for a piddling little fan site was quite astonishing. But before we resume the full sequence of questions [...]

The Johnny Crossan Story (1): Manchester City 0 SAFC 1

To Sunderland supporters of a certain vintage, Johnny Crossan – who scored 39 times for us in 82 games between 1962 and 1965 – is something of a legend. “Before him, all my heroes were those of my dad,” one fan, Keith Scott, was telling Pete Sixsmith at a recent (Reserves) match. “Johnny Crossan was [...]

Jonathan Wilson: the candystripe passions of grandfather, father and son

There is a real treat in store that many Salut! Sunderland readers, older ones especially, will appreciate. That’s all I will say for now about it, though there is a veiled connection with what follows. First, I am proud to say, permission has just been received for the reproduction of this quite exceptional and moving [...]

When Sunderland last topped the league

A trawl through the history of how SAFC respond to a really good win. As Moongod’s first comment shows, I should have made clear that being top, for the purposes of the headline and first sentence, had to last for longer than a couple of hours or so … Only once in my long service [...]

Isaac McGorian of Sunderland, Notts County and Carlisle: a tribute revisited

The story of Isaac Moore (“Ike”) McGorian, who played for Sunderland AFC in the 1920s, first appeared here earlier this month under the headline Isaac ‘Jack’ McGorian: echoes of Bardsley from the Roaring Twenties Salut! Sunderland’s article drew a heartwarming response from members of his family, who also provided the photographs and much of the [...]

Isaac ‘Jack’ McGorian: echoes of Bardsley from the Roaring Twenties

SEE REVISED VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE AT THIS LINK Not for nothing do we boast of going to the ends of the earth to find interesting snippets about Sunderland AFC. The story, for Salut! Sunderland‘s purposes, began in a coal-fired power station in the Transvaal. Bill Richardson*, a Seaham lad who has not seen his [...]