Newcastle and Sunderland’s rivalry will renew at Saturday lunchtime as they conflict within the FA Cup.
The bitter rivals have clashed for years, and Sunderland hooligan Frank Wheatley recalled one significantly violent conflict in 1987. Wheatley, talking within the e-book Terrace Legends, remembers saving the lifetime of a Newcastle fan – simply to be informed to “f*** off”.
Like on Saturday, the sport was a noon kick off, and followers had been ingesting because the conflict of daybreak. He stated: “A pub had opened up for us at half-five within the morning for a noon kick-off.
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“Around the back of the bus station appeared a mob and a few of our lads came running towards us shouting, “They’re right here!'”
Wheatley had been relieving himself against a wall when objects started to rain down on him.
He continued: “It was toe to toe and subsequent to me had been two lads on the ground and so they had been getting a very good kicking from our lads. One acquired up and ran and the opposite was nonetheless getting a very good seeing to. ‘Leave him, he is had sufficient,’ I informed the 2 blokes meting out the beating.
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“I picked him up and asked if he was all right. ‘Aye,’ he said, ‘I’ll wait for me mob here.’ ‘Your firm’s gone, mate. They’ve run and left you,’ I told him. ‘Don’t be fucking daft, we don’t run from no one,’ he said. “Mate, I’ve simply saved your life,’ I informed him. ‘F*** off’, he stated with loads of perspective!”
Wheatley shoved him back on the floor and gave him another “good kicking”.
He added: “That day was the worst violence I’d ever seen between us – it was a mob preventing a mob toe to toe. There was even individuals getting their heads put via home windows and it should have been a very good half-hour earlier than the police regained management!”