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Sunderland won 2-1 and Kieran Richardson scored a great goal.
BUT, Joey Barton was pelted with coins and bottles and there was fighting on the pitch after!
SWLGooner wrote:Sunderland won 2-1 and Kieran Richardson scored a great goal.
BUT, Joey Barton was pelted with coins and bottles and there was fighting on the pitch after!
Amazingly enough Barton wasn't involved in the fighting afterwards
hanny73 wrote:After last week's fighting against Everton and reading this I really hope we're not returning back to the dark days of football in 80's.
"Fighting" against Everton? if you call a few handbags being thrown and a bit of posturing fighting then I spose it was. This would'nt have even been worth a mention in the 70s/80s. Now if you wanted to see fighting then us getting done by wham on the nb fa cup 75 was fighting, us taking the piss at the shit hole in the early 70s was fighting, us taking it to chelsea at the bridge in the late 60s early 70s was fighting, us clearing the home end at Brighton and causing panic about 79 was fighting along with virtually every game played in the league around these times. As a kid I used to watch Southend in the old 3rd and 4th divisions and you'd see far worse there against certain teams than you saw in that minor fracar last week. Those days are in the past, times have changed and they won't come back, not in the same way anyhoo. We probably need a few more days like last week to wake up our sleeping support, we need an edge again that we lost years ago and if it takes a few bindippers getting lary to stir us up a bit then so be it