Newcastle v Sunderland – Derby Day History.
Posted on January 14th, 2011 | 60 Comments |
As we all know it’s derby awayday on Sunday, and the lucky few of you that have tickets for the game will be able to take in the sights of the beautiful city of Sunderland before making your way through the discarded prams and Ford Capri’s on bricks, being careful not to tread on anything that looks even remotely suspicious, before arriving at The Stadium Of Light, and before that Joker Park.
Anyway, I digress. No matter what the stadium has been called it has been host to some cracking victories to the Geordies, and some jammy ref helped victories to the home side. Fairness would dictate that both are discussed here. Sorry, not going to happen. This blog is intended to celebrate the dominance we have had over the Mackems in this fixture.
First of all some stats:
Newcastle Wins – 49 to Sunderlands 40
Newcastle Goals – 198 to Sunderlands 190
Newcastle have also done the double over Sunderland a total of 11 times to Sunderland’s 6.
Newcastle have won 4 of the last 9 games at home, drawn 2 and lost 2.
In contrast Sunderland’s home record for the same period is won 1, drawn 3 and lost 4, we didn’t play last season as we weren’t interested. *Ahem*.
So, as you can clearly see the dominance that NUFC have over our less worthy neighbours is there, appropriately, in black and white.
We have also beaten them more times in a row. 5 consecutive victories to us in the period between Feb. 2002 and April 2006. Compared to their 3 consecutive victories between December 1904 and September 1905.
We also better them in the highest attendance for a Derby game. And also in the lowest Attendance for a Derby game. Our 21,000 vs their 20,000.
So, in all respects, NUFC come out on top of Sunderland every single time.
If history keeps repeating it’s self we will have nothing to worry about on Sunday, so enjoy yourself.
Paddy Power have us to win at 5/1, get it on.
As an end to this article I thought I’d share this compilation of some past goals scored against Sunderland that I found on YouTube. Ignore the marketing rubbish at the end and just enjoy the goals.
Did the clip include your favourite? Derby day memories welcome below.
hope our great record continues ;)