Have Sunderland ever had an household name play for them?

Norman_Conquest

Norman_Conquest

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I have just watched us batter Sunderland 3-1 with goals from Branca 2 & Armstrong. Merson was pulling the strings and wondered if they ever had a player you would look forward to seeing.

I went through the list of their players since my time in the 60’s and had to go back to Dennis Tuart and Bryan ‘Pop’ Robson. Have I missed anyone?
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I have just watched us batter Sunderland 3-1 with goals from Branca 2 & Armstrong. Merson was pulling the strings and wondered if they ever had a player you would look forward to seeing.

I went through the list of their players since my time in the 60’s and had to go back to Dennis Tuart and Bryan ‘Pop’ Robson. Have I missed anyone?
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They could argue Dave Watson but you're spot on

We've all worked with a few of their fans, I do regularly
I say I've gone to watch the Boro for nigh on 50 years & what have Sunderland done better than the Boro, in my lifetime they've only beaten us once in a cup match & that was the extra time winner at the Riverside under Mogga, when they were a PL club
After a while the conversation changes to attendance, so the Roker Park attendances come out when the had similar crowds to us
They do think they're bigger & better than they actually are
 
Niall Quinn (Played a lot in famous R of I sides under Big Jack)

Kevin Phillips (always mentioned as transfer target and should be playing for England when national team was struggling)

Phil Gray is well known by non Premiership fans and seems to be a proper football fan.

Back in the midsts of time I think they had Len Shackleton who became a journalist and Charles Buchan who later did football annuals?
 
Lefty said:
Well, they did beat Leeds to win the FA cup.
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Sorry should have added, as we were talking I mentioned there FAC & our CC win, they've done nothing to better us, most of their time in the PL fighting relegation, a couple of seasons doing well in the PL but the majority at the other end
 
Erimus74 said:
Sorry should have added, as we were talking I mentioned there FAC & our CC win, they've done nothing to better us, most of their time in the PL fighting relegation, a couple of seasons doing well in the PL but the majority at the other end
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They just missed out on Europe with a team without any household names (you could argue Quinn & Phillips) but didn’t kick on after that.
 
A good mate of mine (a Sunlun st holder) once said to me that he was envious of us with rav Juno etc as he said Sunlun had never bought the finished article.

as they were always either up and coming ( say a Phillips) that camdg good or a past their best pro ( like a defoe) but never at their peak or in their prime.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
They just missed out on Europe with a team without any household names (you could argue Quinn & Phillips) but didn’t kick on after that.
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Yes maybe a was being a bit picky but they talk as if they're Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool not s club whose ran along the same lines as us for the majority of my lifetime as a Boro fan
 
Erimus74 said:
Sorry should have added, as we were talking I mentioned there FAC & our CC win, they've done nothing to better us, most of their time in the PL fighting relegation, a couple of seasons doing well in the PL but the majority at the other end
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The Fa cup is a bigger trophy than the league cup
 
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