Joe Burdis, over from NZ for the game, flanked by Caroline Haworth and Dave Longley
Sixer and his stand-in on a faster train
From Montreal (her) to Houghton-le-Spring
Wear Down South for the 2014 Leage Cup final. Image: Rob Hutchison
(From) Jarrow (in) March
Dutch treat
Mackemoiselles
Mick Goulding and son
Martin Emmerson, right, and Frank Robertson at HT. Hence the smiles
Exonerated
Theirs: sotto voce
Support never wains
‘Still not good enough Mr Halfon’
The photos above are, in the main, of passionate people who made March 2 a special day in the history of Sunderland AFC.
They are not “scumbag football hooligans”, the elegant turn of phrase chosen by Robert Halfon, Conservative MP for Harlow and a supporter of Chelsea and Harlow Town, to describe the thousands of supporters who painted Covent Garden and other parts of central London red and white on the eve of the final.