Sunderland Empire and SAFC today announces that brand-new production, The Sunderland Story, is coming exclusively to Sunderland Empire from Wednesday 17 May – Saturday 27 May 2023.
“Another slice of cake, old chap?” The story of Sunderland’s double international, Willie Watson
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Its 4am and freezing. I am tip toeing downstairs so as not to wake the rest of the house. England are playing India in the first test - compulsive viewing nurtured by my Dad, who was blind from the time I was 12 years old.
Dad loved listening to the cricket on the radio, and though he moaned big time about Johnners, Blofeld and Trevor Bailey bantering about cake, secretly I think he loved all that guff. Anyhow - here I am at this ungodly hour, Dad will be snickering up in heaven at me creeping about encumbered by a passion he passed on.