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League in consecutive seasons.
Dwight Yorke may be one of the world’s worst fathers, but he was a half-decent footballer. Most of his career, he played as a very suc- cessful striker, being remembered for his part- nership with Andy Cole at Man Utd. He played in a midfield role for us under Roy Keane due to his loss of pace. He could pick a pass as well as score, so I’ve put him in centre midfield to shoot from the edge of the box and play those defence splitting passes.
RIGHT WING:
BOUDEWIJN ZENDEN
Dad dancer extraordinaire! Bolo came to us from Marseille via PSV, Barcelona, Liverpool, Chelsea and the Smog-Monsters. A Dutch in- ternational, Bolo would often be used sparingly at SAFC but still managed a total of 47 ap- pearances and four goals. He is probably most remembered on Wearside for his dad dance when Asamoah Gyan scored in a famous 3-0 win at Stamford Bridge.
LEFT WING:
BILLY ELLIOTT
Billy Elliott was a former player, coach and twice manager. He came from Burnley in 1953 and played for six seasons for the lads and making 212 appearances, scoring 26 goals. After he hung up his boots, he ended up on the coaching staff under Bob Stokoe for the cup run in 1973 after a brief stint as caretaker manager for the lads in 1972. He returned as manager for the second half of the 1978/9 sea- son, nearly guiding Sunderland to promotion.
ATTACKING MIDFIELD:
LEN SHACKLETON
The Clown Prince of Football, or Shack,
comes in at attacking midfield behind the front two. He would have been included anyway for famously stating he wasn’t biased against Newcastle; he didn’t care who beat them. However, he was a maverick of his time. He would run rings around opposition defenders just to entertain the crowd, even when a pass or shot was on. A career stalled by the Second World War, he joined SAFC in 1948, and scored 100 goals in 348 appearances
CENTRE FORWARDS:
BOBBY GURNEY/BRIAN CLOUGH
The most difficult position to decide
was who would play up front. I’ve gone
for a partnership of Bobby Gurney and Brian Clough. Bobby Gurney was born in Silksworth and was a one-club player as
a professional footballer. Not only was he a home-grown player, but also happens
to be SAFC’s top goal scorer of all time, netting 228 times in just 388 appearances. This included a goal in the 1937 cup final win. He even has a mural on the side of a house in Silksworth too.
Joining Bobby Gurney is Brian Clough.
He was robbed of his best years through injury, having to retire at 29 years old. He made his name early on at Middlesbrough before Sunderland called. In his playing career he scored 63 goals from 74 ap- pearances for the lads (amassing a career total of 267 goals from 296 appearances). As his managerial career highlighted, Ol’ Big Head was a born winner. If things
had turned out differently, he could have been SAFC manager which is the biggest shame of the lot.
MANAGER:
BOB STOKOE (ASSISTED BY BILLY ELLIOTT- SEE ABOVE)
Not Brian Clough’s favourite person, so
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