Sunderland away..............

You might as well go mate. It seems anyone can do pretty much whatever they like nowadays without and kind of criticism. I'd rather eat my head personally.

Go for it, when I was younger and hard up with a dodgy car in my early exile days I only ever got to matches local to Stoke, if you have chance to see us especially if you struggle to get to games you should do it.

Quoted from Maringer

It would have been the 1998 game. I seem to recall that their first goal came from a corner when we were down to ten men. Livvo, one of our best aerial defenders, got taken out knee high clearing a ball in the box which the referee ignored/missed and was off the pitch after having treatment when they scored from the subsequent corner.

Funny the things you remember. Gulp, can't believe it was over 20 years ago!

That's about the only bit of the game I remember. Twatting ref.

Quoted from speedy

And if everyfan thought like this then the games would have decent attendances and not be a failure.

Indeed, but I suppose that not every fan lives so close to an away ground but also so far from BP, which was kind of my point.

Don't go.

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

Looks like we
only ever had two games there? Stadium of Light opened for the 1997-98 season according to Wiki ( amongst others )

https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1148&team2_id=2493&teamTabs=h2h

I was down south with a young family back then... now I'm an "empty nester" I could go and do it, no problem at all, but it won't be while we are in this competition. It just ain't the right thing to do

Didn't we play their twice that season , league and league cup.

Quoted from marinernige

Didn't we play their twice that season , league and league cup.

Yeah...that's what the link shows

Both games within a couple of weeks

27 Oct  League Cup  Lost 2-1
7 Nov   League          Lost 3-1

I might buy the iFollow "Video Match Pass" (£10) just because it's Town, money to GTFC and I can still boycott  

Scabs

Bully?

I think the fact the lad asking shows he aware of the morale contention (maybe not the right use of English but you get me) gives him leeway.

If he lives far from home and we playing on his doorstep at a massive ground we likely rarely get to play at I think he could be forgiven for begrudgingly adding plus 1 to the attendance on thus one occasion.

But personally, I'd hold firm, I'd rather die in a ditch (to steal from a cliché bingo) than give credence to this abomination of a competition ever.

But I've been there twice at least following Town, he up in the North East where Town have no local fixtures what with not playing The Monkeyhangers or any of the other lot.

It's his choice with no negative peer pressure or that feeds into the bullying narrative, we just neutrally explain why we believe it's wrong. However if he does choose to attend (and there won't be that many in his position so it realistically wouldnt make that big a difference) he could at least give us a stellar low down if goings on.

After all we all interested from afar if the stiffs are much cop etc.