JEAN
PAM
AMY
WENDY
PAM
Pam grew up in Sunderland. She started going to watch Sunderland in the 1960s with her friends. “We were about 11 and a few of us went and stood at the top of the Fulwell End…Four girls, we went, about 11, 12 years old. From then on, I loved it, absolutely loved it. We went for years and years up there, until I went to college when I was 18, but in those seven years we went to every home game.”
Jean’s father took her to her first game in 1961 as a surprise, not telling her until they were going into the stadium:
“The next I knew, we were outside St James’ Park. And I was going in! Amazing this! I was just in awe of the whole thing. Even then it was a big ground. And I was a little dwarf at that time. The whole experience was just magical, as far as I was concerned. When I came home, I didn’t stop talking about it for ages. Suddenly to be in there, the cathedral on the hill.”
Wendy stopped going to Sunderland games when she got married to her first husband. She started going again with her son, in the late 1980s. “Husband number one didn’t like me going. He didn’t like it at all, didn’t really bother with it. My son is 34, so then I had him, and then I would listen to the radio, I would go in the bath and just soak in the bath and listen to the match. Then I persuaded my son to be a fan, so that’s why I could go, and he could go.”
Amy’s ex-partner would not let her go to games:
“My ex-partner was a Liverpool fan, so it was a case of he didn’t like going and he wouldn’t let me go on my own.
I couldn’t go on my own because he didn’t know what would happen, a woman sitting on her own. I’d say I’ll be fine.”
AMY
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JEAN
PAM
AMY
WENDY
PAM
Pam grew up in Sunderland. She started going to watch Sunderland in the 1960s with her friends. “We were about 11 and a few of us went and stood at the top of the Fulwell End…Four girls, we went, about 11, 12 years old. From then on, I loved it, absolutely loved it. We went for years and years up there, until I went to college when I was 18, but in those seven years we went to every home game.”
Jean’s father took her to her first game in 1961 as a surprise, not telling her until they were going into the stadium: “The next I knew, we were outside St James’ Park. And I was going in! Amazing this! I was just in awe of the whole thing. Even then it was a big ground. And I was a little dwarf at that time. The whole experience was just magical, as far as I was concerned. When I came home, I didn’t stop talking about it for ages. Suddenly to be in there, the cathedral on the hill.”
Wendy stopped going to Sunderland games when she got married to her first husband. She started going again with her son, in the late 1980s. “Husband number one didn’t like me going. He didn’t like it at all, didn’t really bother with it. My son is 34, so then I had him, and then I would listen to the radio, I would go in the bath and just soak in the bath and listen to the match. Then I persuaded my son to be a fan, so that’s why I could go, and he could go.”
Amy’s ex-partner would not let her go to games: “My ex-partner was a Liverpool fan, so it was a case of he didn’t like going and he wouldn’t let me go on my own. I couldn’t go on my own because he didn’t know what would happen, a woman sitting on her own. I’d say I’ll be fine.”
AMY