Basically, I have always been interested in recording my thoughts on Sunderland football club, and allowing other fans to view and comment on them. Therefore I decided to do this and I hope that it takes off. I will keep it updated with writings everyday if I can.
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Sunderland Vs Hull City
Posted 19-04-2009 at 07:53 PM by safcrhys
And to the game that would decide our season, all the talk had been about the fans really getting behind the players and I didn't think I would have a voice by the end, and guess what? I didn't! 
I woke up on Saturday morning a little nervous but mostly excited about the game, I realised it would be a difficult match but I was really confident of a win. Anyway, I made my way to the local pub where the bus takes us to the games and had a long think about what lay ahead for us all as we made our way to Sunderland.
Into the promised land and I immediately saught out a source of nutrition, I was too nervous to eat at first and felt sick but decided that it was best to have something on my stomach, so I found a "scran van" and handed the kind lady behind the counter £2. There were alot of Hull fans mingling in with us all and it was a strange sight because usually visiting fans are more reserved, you could sense that a great atmosphere was going to be present upon kick off, I made my way to Turnstile number 6, heading for the usual seat in the South West Corner.
I got in the ground pretty early so was bored before kick off, but I found the time to give former Sunderland winger kevin Kilbane one or two hand signals, I then sat in my seat and watched the Stadium fill up.
5 minutes before kick off and there were around 40,000 people seated, the atmosphere started to build as the lads behind me started chanting, as the teams emerged and all mighty roar went up followed by a rendition of "red and white army" you could almost see the Hull player shrink an inch or two.
The game kicked off and ironically it was Hull that started off the better of the two teams, putting us under some pressure but they never really threatened a shot on target. The atmosphere kept up with 3,000 Hull fans cheering their team on. The game became abit of a scrappy stalemate halfway through the first half and the noise died down abit. Perhaps one of our best players this season Anton Ferdinand nearly made a costly mistake when he tried to take on a Hull player and was tackled, the player was through on goal but thankfully Davenport made a great tackle.
Shortly after Gordon was called into action when Kilbane got up high and won a header, the Scottish international was able to palm it away to safety however. We were coming under some sustained pressure and Geovanni had a goal bound effort hacked away off the line on about 40 minutes.
We hadn't tested Boaz Myhill in the Hull goal, thankfully that was about to change, Reid swept in a cross from the left that Danny Collins flicked on before Cissé edged infront of his marker to head home a priceless goal, replays have shown it to be offside, but given our record with refereeing decisions its about time we got the rub of the green. Cissé's celebration was quality, he came sprinting over to the SWC and jumped in with the fans, he recieved a booking for it however.
The second half kicked off and we straight away nearly scored, Cissé got through but his powerful effort was palmed away by Myhill, then a minute or so later, Edwards crossed to the far post where Reid was waiting and he nudged the ball to Jones who headed into the net, unfortunately however the official was correct in giving the offside this time.
After that it was all about holding on for a prescious 3 points, Hull came at us but never really looked like scoring, they had a couple of decent opportunities however. One that really made me cack myself was a Boateng drive from the edge of the box which flew just inches wide, there was also a header late on from Caleb Folan that floated dangerously close to the bottom corner, Gordon seemed assure it was heading wide however.
As full-time approached the atmosphere reached fever pitch and the whole stadium was on its feet singing, then the whistles started from the fans, just as my ears felt like they couldn't take much more, Mike Dean finally brung play to and end, cue massive celebrations, I was hugged by a few random strangers, but perhaps the best thing about football matches is the bond you get with fellow supporters, most of whom you don't even know.
Anyway, a prescious 3 points and now the players can go into another crunch game with West Brom next week with renewed confidence and vigour!
Ha'way the lads!
I woke up on Saturday morning a little nervous but mostly excited about the game, I realised it would be a difficult match but I was really confident of a win. Anyway, I made my way to the local pub where the bus takes us to the games and had a long think about what lay ahead for us all as we made our way to Sunderland.
Into the promised land and I immediately saught out a source of nutrition, I was too nervous to eat at first and felt sick but decided that it was best to have something on my stomach, so I found a "scran van" and handed the kind lady behind the counter £2. There were alot of Hull fans mingling in with us all and it was a strange sight because usually visiting fans are more reserved, you could sense that a great atmosphere was going to be present upon kick off, I made my way to Turnstile number 6, heading for the usual seat in the South West Corner.
I got in the ground pretty early so was bored before kick off, but I found the time to give former Sunderland winger kevin Kilbane one or two hand signals, I then sat in my seat and watched the Stadium fill up.
5 minutes before kick off and there were around 40,000 people seated, the atmosphere started to build as the lads behind me started chanting, as the teams emerged and all mighty roar went up followed by a rendition of "red and white army" you could almost see the Hull player shrink an inch or two.
The game kicked off and ironically it was Hull that started off the better of the two teams, putting us under some pressure but they never really threatened a shot on target. The atmosphere kept up with 3,000 Hull fans cheering their team on. The game became abit of a scrappy stalemate halfway through the first half and the noise died down abit. Perhaps one of our best players this season Anton Ferdinand nearly made a costly mistake when he tried to take on a Hull player and was tackled, the player was through on goal but thankfully Davenport made a great tackle.
Shortly after Gordon was called into action when Kilbane got up high and won a header, the Scottish international was able to palm it away to safety however. We were coming under some sustained pressure and Geovanni had a goal bound effort hacked away off the line on about 40 minutes.
We hadn't tested Boaz Myhill in the Hull goal, thankfully that was about to change, Reid swept in a cross from the left that Danny Collins flicked on before Cissé edged infront of his marker to head home a priceless goal, replays have shown it to be offside, but given our record with refereeing decisions its about time we got the rub of the green. Cissé's celebration was quality, he came sprinting over to the SWC and jumped in with the fans, he recieved a booking for it however.
The second half kicked off and we straight away nearly scored, Cissé got through but his powerful effort was palmed away by Myhill, then a minute or so later, Edwards crossed to the far post where Reid was waiting and he nudged the ball to Jones who headed into the net, unfortunately however the official was correct in giving the offside this time.
After that it was all about holding on for a prescious 3 points, Hull came at us but never really looked like scoring, they had a couple of decent opportunities however. One that really made me cack myself was a Boateng drive from the edge of the box which flew just inches wide, there was also a header late on from Caleb Folan that floated dangerously close to the bottom corner, Gordon seemed assure it was heading wide however.
As full-time approached the atmosphere reached fever pitch and the whole stadium was on its feet singing, then the whistles started from the fans, just as my ears felt like they couldn't take much more, Mike Dean finally brung play to and end, cue massive celebrations, I was hugged by a few random strangers, but perhaps the best thing about football matches is the bond you get with fellow supporters, most of whom you don't even know.
Anyway, a prescious 3 points and now the players can go into another crunch game with West Brom next week with renewed confidence and vigour!
Ha'way the lads!
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