Sunderland 1973 FA Cup Final Shirt Sunderland won their last major trophy in 1973, in a 1–0 victory over Leeds United in the FA Cup Final. A Second Division club at the time, Sunderland won the game, mostly thanks to the efforts of their goalke...
Vermillion/White/Black The Sunderland 2011/12 Home Shirt manufactured by Umbro maintains the personality and identity of the Black Cats with the red and white stripes front and back that have graced the football...
Sunderland Away Shirt 2010/11 - Kids Sunderland were founded in 1879 and have a well known nickname of 'The Mackems' or 'The Black Cats'. The club currently play at one of the modern English grounds, Stadium of Light. Some o...
Sunderland Home Shirt 2010/11 - Kids Sunderland were founded in 1879 and have a well known nickname of 'The Mackems' or 'The Black Cats'. The club currently play at one of the modern English grounds, Stadium of Light. Some o...
Official 2009-10 Sunderland away football shirt. Authentic short Sleeve Umbro football shirt of Sunderland football club, available in sizes S, M, L, XL, XXL. To be worn in the 2009-10 English Premiership season. Official shirt printing for th...
Official 2010-11 Sunderland home football shirt. To be worn in the 2010-11 Premiership season.Buy the new Sunderland home shirt online in junior sizes small boys, medium boys, large boys, XL boys. This football kit is manufactured by Umbro. The j...
Official 2010-11 Sunderland Short Sleeve home Shirt manufactured by Umbro. Available in sizes Medium Boys, Large Boys, XL Boys S, M, L, XL, XXL. We stock only official Sunderland soccer jerseys and authentic Sunderland football kits.This foo...
Official 2010-11 Sunderland Short Sleeve home Shirt manufactured by Umbro. Available in sizes Medium Boys, Large Boys, XL Boys S, M, L, XL, XXL. We stock only official Sunderland soccer jerseys and authentic Sunderland football kits.This foo...
Sunderland Home Shirt 2011/12 - Long Sleeve - Kids Vermillion/White/Black The Sunderland 2011/12 Home Shirt manufactured by Umbro maintains the personality and identity of the Black Cats with the red and white stripes front and back that have graced ...
Sunderland's official nickname is The Black Cats. They also have other nicknames, such as The Rokerites, Roker Men, the Light Brigade, the Miners, the Sols and the Mackems. After leaving Roker Park for the Stadium of Light in 1997, the club decided that they would have a vote on the nickname to clarify the situation for the last time. The Black Cats nickname received the majority of the 11,000 votes beating off other suggestions such as the Light Brigade, the Miners, the Sols and the Mackems. There is a long historical link between black cats and Sunderland, including the "Black Cat Battery", a battery gun based on the River wier.
Around the early 1800s, the southern side of the River Wear contained four gun batteries, which guarded the river mouth during the Napoleonic wars. In 1805, the battery was manned by local militia, the Sunderland loyal volenteers one of whom was a cooper by trade named Joshua Dunn. He was said to have "fled from the howling of an approaching black cat, convinced by the influence of the full moon and a warming dram or two that it was the devil incarnate". From that point onwards the John Paul Jones Battery was known as the Black Cat Battery.
A Sunderland supporter, Billy Morris, took a black cat in his top pocket as a good luck charm to the 1937 FA Cup final in which Sunderland brought home the trophy for the first time. During the 1960s a black cat lived in Roker Park and was fed and watered by the football club. Since the 1960s the emblem of the Sunderland A.F.C. Supporters Association has been a black cat.
As well as the "Team of All Talents" at the turn of the 20th century, Sunderland was also known as the "Bank of England club" during the 1950s. This was due to the club's spending on the transfer market at the time, which saw the transfer-record broken twice. At the beginning of the 2006/7 season, the purchase of the club by the Irish Drumaville consortium, the appointments ofNiall Quinn and Roy Keane to their respective roles as chairman and manager, as well as the relatively large number of Irish players in the squad led some fans to dub jokingly the team "Sund-Ireland".
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