On 5 April 1980, Sunderland beat Newcastle United at Roker Park for the very last time. Following that game some pretty remarkable stats followed in derby matches, more of that…
The Newcastle v Sunderland matches are always special and they carry with them so many of my greatest memories, I’d like to share this classic photo – 1980.
Newcastle fans had many occasions of their own where something like this could have occurred. Hillsborough itself a few years earlier had been very dodgy on those same terraces.
