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Gary Rowell (Left) Don Goodman (Right)
pleasure of meeting Don Goodman once. I think it was the FA Cup final in 92. I knew Alex King who was working for the club at the time and he invited me to meet Don. What a lovely bloke he is. It’s great to see him making it as a commentator too.”
So what does Martin think about the current team.
“I think it’s a disgrace that we don’t take the knee. What does that make us look like?”
finished she would say “Thanks Martin, I’ll make sure I pass that on to Bob.”
As the interview finishes Martin is about to play football and is waxing lyrical about the scissor kick he scored last week.
He caveats it by saying his team mates were more impressed he didn’t put his
hip out at his age than they were by the goal. Martin Brammer is a songwriter, a musician and an artist; but he’s also still that miner’s son with his heart in Seaham.
I point out that not only do we not take the knee on the field, but boos can be heard from the crowd if the opposition do take the knee.
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“Well of course, what do you expect? If the team can’t get down on one knee and support a gesture of equality, then parts of the crowd are going to follow suit. It’s a disgrace and everyone needs to do more to call it out.”
Martin’s connection to Sunderland football club is longstanding and when he talks about the club you can hear his passion. “Bob Murray took an interest in the music when we were touring and was supportive so I got to know him quite well. His secretary was a lovely woman. It got to the stage where I would call her up and spend about 20 minutes telling her everything that was going wrong at the club. She would
sit there and listen and then when I was