@Teamgrassroots_
Please tell him to contact us bilbaoblackcats
@gmail
.com.
We're organising a junior tournament in Bilbao 1st June and we'd like Conner to have the experience of being a referee in Bilbao like
@joe_safc
🤝⚽
12 months ago a young inexperienced left back joined from Tottenham. His name was Dennis Cirkin
@DCirkin3
.
12 months later and he's turned into this beast of a player and one of the first names on the team sheet!
Keep it up Dennis!
Ha'way The Lads 🇵🇪
#SAFC
Let's hear it for
@Niall_Huggins
Had terrible luck with injuries since he joined us. Has done a cracking job filling in at left back over the last several games.
Keep it up Huggy!
#SAFC
2 cities intertwined since the 19th century. 2 clubs connected since 1910.
Pride in their roots, 2 cities built on industry & populations that bleed red & white 🔴⚪
Hewn from the same rock🪨
Cut from the same cloth🇵🇪
#Bilbao
🤝
#Sunderland
@Athletic_en
🤜🏻🤛🏻
@SunderlandAFC
Struggling to find the right words to sum up what we experienced pre, during and post match today on our first visit to the stadium of light as an official overseas supporters branch. Big thank you to all who took time to talk to us pre & post match.
@CWaters_SAFC
👏🏻🤝❤️
#SAFC
How we witnessed
@j_bellingham
goal tonight with Spanish commentary. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool 🔴⚪
@DAZN_ES
@SunderlandAFC
#SAFC
Kyril Louis Dreyfus &
@krespeakman
.
Our club is not a toy. Treat it with the respect it deserves both on & off the pitch.
We're not a project to develop young players & sell on.
Invest money on better/more experienced players or fuck off. Most shameful week in Club's history.
A head coach who loses his 1st game 0-3 at home and the 1st thing he does in post match interview is apologise to the fans is a head coach in a role way out of his depth
#SAFC
Different leagues ⚽
Different objectives 📝
Same position 🎰
Same colours🇵🇪
Same passion😍
Same pride 🤩
@SunderlandAFC
&
@Athletic_en
have and will always have a unique bond that goes back more than a century.
Ha'way The Lads!🔴⚪
Aupa Athletic!🔴⚪
#safc
#AthleticClub
@LyndenGooch
Goochy, you especially don't need to come on here to defend & explain yourself.
You've got to where you are because of hard work. You are adored by SAFC fans as well as Stoke City fans because of everything you give on the pitch regardless of who you play for.
All the best
Were promised that we wanted to build on last season's 6th place.
•Amad out - Aouchiche in
•Bath out - Seelt in
•Stewart/Gelhardt out - Rusyn/Hemir/Burstow/Mayenda in
•Gooch out - Pembele in
@krespeakman
take responsibility for your dreadful recruitment & get it sorted 😡
Our member Ekaitz. Always been a fan of English football but never followed any team. He saw Sunderland 'till I die & decided to visit the stadium of light in 2022. His words were "I didn't want to choose a team, I wanted a team to choose me.
@SunderlandAFC
chose me!"
🔴⚪
#SAFC
The Sunderland way has always been to be welcoming, helpful, thoughtful & to look out for 1 another. Some of our fans haven't showed these values to Michael Beale since day 1. It's about time we all get behind him, the team & see what the rest of the season brings.
#SAFC
🔴⚪❤️
Michael Beale was appointed coach 18th December. Since then we have faced 1 team going for top 2, 3 teams for playoffs & local rivals in the cup. This will be his 3rd full week on the training pitch . A pretty tough start to life. Does he not deserve a bit more time?
#SAFC
🔴⚪Another successful Bilbao Black Cats meetup✅
🔴⚪ New projector screen and stand✅
🔴⚪Another 3 points✅
Roll on 4th March for the next one.
If you'd like to join the branch or find yourself in the Basque Country, give us a shout.
Ha'way The Lads 🇵🇪
#SAFC
@RokerReport
Left home 5:30am Saturday morning, 3 points on the road at QPR with 3,000 fellow Sunderland fans, arrived home 10:20 this morning. Hadn't slept for more than 24 hours, absolutely knackered but would do it all again without a doubt.
Ha'way The Lads 🔴⚪
♥️
@SunderlandAFC
#SAFC
Today we're celebrating our 2nd anniversary as an official overseas supporters branch of
@SunderlandAFC
. 🎉🎊
Our branch is like a family full of amazing people.
We've met many incredible
#safc
fans who have shaped our branch.
Thank you all for following us 🔴⚪
@RokerReport
Good luck Carl Winchester!
You were ridiculed by some fans when you signed from Forest Green but you showed them & the rest of the fans what a fine player you are. 1 that always played with great dignity, pride & gave absolutely everything on the pitch.
Ha'way The Lads 🇵🇪
#SAFC
Completely baffled to see our own fans criticising the ones who decided to queue to get the new away shirt. If you think it's embarrassing, then obviously you have no idea what our club is all about.
Seeing such dedication & loyalty should be celebrated not mocked. HTL🇵🇪
#SAFC
Since we formed May 2022 we have seen the lads win at Wembley, expand our group to 20+ members, been to 10+ games,hosted a dozen+ fans in Bilbao, researched links between Sunderland & Bilbao, organising a football tournament & arranging a match in Bilbao for the
@FansMuseum
#safc
No sooner had it started than it ended!
It's been short but sweet with an excellent 3 points
See you later
@SunderlandAFC
♥️
Next stop Manchester airport
Ha'way The Lads 🔴⚪
#SAFC
Being part of a branch not only means being a fan but also giving a good impression of the club, raising the profile & attracting new fans. This is Haritz with his 1st kit & tomorrow he will be at his 1st meetup. His uncle Ekaitz says he can play striker🔴⚪
@SunderlandAFC
#SAFC
After helping 20+ fans get sorted with transport, also got time to have a chat with some of the players. Even spoke with
@Jewisonoficial9
in Spanish.
Back again on Sunday with another 3 minibuses taking 21 fans to the match & back.
Ha'way The Lads 🔴⚪
#safc
🥳 𝗬𝗘𝗘𝗘𝗘𝗘𝗘𝗘𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗦𝗦𝗦!!!!!! A fifth consecutive year in the semi-finals.
👏 An epic and spectacular performance by Athletic keeps our Copa dreams alive!
Enjoy the moment, Athleticzales!!
#AthleticBar
ça 🏆
#AthleticClub
🦁
After 2,780 miles / 4,474 kilometers travelled & over 13.5 hours total from Bilbao-Santander-Manchester-Durham-Sunderland-Newcastle-Alicante-Santander-Bilbao, our 1st members have made it back.
We'd do it all over again tomorrow for our special club 🔴⚪
@SunderlandAFC
#safc
Our branch member Julen
@julenfarias
has flown from Bilbao to London to be in attendance at
#allypally
for this evening's darts session. Look out for the
#Basque
flag and Bilbao Black Cats written on a whiteboard.
#darts
#SAFC
This is
@BetiAnaiak
son, Peio, last weekend in Sevilla. He likes to colour black & white photos. Recently, he has developed a fondness for
@SunderlandAFC
due to the research his dad & us have done regarding Bilbao & Sunderland. Here's a photo he did of King Charlie Hurley
#SAFC
🇵🇪
Our branch has arranged transport for over 30 fans to get from Benidorm/Alicante to Pinatar Arena to watch the red & white wizards this weekend.
Fans helping fans 🤝🔴⚪
If you see our flag, come and say hello.
#safc
@RokerReport
@SunderlandAFC
@CWaters_SAFC
@BlcSafc
Callum Styles hasn't been in favour with some of the fanbase since he signed on loan from league one Barnsley.
However, he's neat & tidy on the ball & has that little bit of experience & footballing intelligence that some of our young lads still lack. Would keep him on.
#SAFC
Is Jobe a hindrance to the way we play?
He's playing an advanced midfield role, he's slow, stiff & slows down the pace.
If he's going to start then it should be in a deeper midfield role as he offers absolutely nothing in the advanced role.
Thoughts?
#safc
For
@SunderlandAFC
fans visiting Bilbao anytime, check out Bar Antxi next to San Mamés stadium. Tell José the barman you're fans of Sunderland, friends of the Bilbao Black Cats and he'll look after you. Look for our branch flag behind the bar. 🔴⚪ Ha'way The Lads
#SAFC
Special day for The Bilbao Black Cats overseas supporters branch as we celebrate our inauguration.
Food, drinks &
@SunderlandAFC
are on the menu.
12 adults & 10 kids.
Big thank you to everyone involved in the branch & to those of you who follow us.
Ha'way The Lads 🇵🇪
#SAFC
The son of our friend
@BetiAnaiak
is quite an artist. He manually converted this black & white photo of Stan Anderson into colour.
Sunderland Association Football Club - Stan Anderson - 21st January 1961.
#safc
🔴⚪
Original 📸 credit: Mirrorpix
An incredible year for our branch. We've had highs & we've had lows but as fans of
@SunderlandAFC
do, we've stuck together. We're overwhelmed with the love & support shown & the friendships we've made around the world.
We wish all
#SAFC
fans a Happy New Year! 🔴⚪
@RokerReport
For any
@SunderlandAFC
fan saying Beale should be sacked, give your head a shake. He's got same squad of players as Mowbray that we said not good enough. Lost 2-1 against 2nd place. You may have reservations against Beale but it's still early doors. Pritchard best player on pitch
Coventry City sell Gyokeres for a fortune, reinvest and buy Ellis Simms for 7 million and Haji Wright for 8 million.
Sunderland sell Ross Stewart for 10 million and buy Mayenda, Venir and Rusyn none of who are really that good align with Burstow on loan.
There's the difference
Our day started off with sad obsessed mags tagging us in a post regarding
@Athletic_en
because they mentioned them & not us in a post.
Won 1-2, 6th, 3 new members in the branch who are all
@Athletic_en
fans & soon we'll be releasing our findings regarding the red & shirts
#SAFC
Canny weekend in Pinatar!
✅Saw the lads twice
✅Arranged 7 minibuses + numerous taxis for over 40 fans
✅Argued in Spanish with the gate staff for being unreasonable and won 💪
✅Caught up with some familiar faces
✅Met some great new fans
See you on 17th August 🔴⚪
#safc
Unai, baby Haritz & Ekaitz, our Sunderland-mad members of the Bilbao Black Cats & the Basque Country 😎
Eguberri on / Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas
@SunderlandAFC
fans
Ha'way The Lads 🔴⚪
#SAFC
@Magpie24_7
Personally, don't see anything wrong with it. It's a photo with your own fans. If it were in front of our fans, I'd understand the point of being disrespectful but not in front of your own fans.
We're more pissed off at the handling of the whole build-up since the draw was made
Thoroughly enjoyable day for our branch. A mix of English, Basque, Catalan, Spanish & Colombian all with one thing in common, the love for
@SunderlandAFC
.
A point away from home and we move on to the next game.
Ha'way The Lads 🔴⚪
#SAFC
Trips to Bristol City, Sheffield United and Stoke City in the league so far and backed by thousands as always.
Well done and a round of applause to you all! 👏
Ha'way The Lads 🇵🇪
#SAFC
If the rumours of Tony Mowbray set to be replaced are true, it would take away the feel good factor created from this season, upset players, fans & ultimately put us in a worse position for next season. We need stability & continuity not change & disruption.
HTL🔴⚪
#SAFC
Hi, I’m Jonny. I guess it was destiny I live abroad now. I was born in Zambia as my dad worked for NEI Reyrolle & have travelled around the world.
Family is from Usworth/Castletown. Came home in 1983 to live in Sherburn Village & due to mates, was baptised as a Mackem.
#safc
Lee usually teaches English to teenage students but today he's been giving a very important history lesson.
They've seen Porterfield's strike, Monty's double save, Stokoe's sprint & Wee Bobby lifting the cup.
Ha'way The Lads 🇵🇪
@SunderlandAFC
@RokerReport
@krespeakman
#safc
What does Bradley Dack actually offer to the team?
Experienced player but failing to see what he brings to the table?
Aouchiche and Ba should be on the pitch well before him.
Agreed with taking Huggins and Jobe off but Rusyn should have been given a bit longer. Hemir was poor
Bold claim:
Ellis Simms wasn't very good yesterday and hasn't been all season it seems.
However, if he were playing for us, he'd thrive on the way we play and the amounts of chances we'd create and score at least 15 goals.
Thoughts?
#SAFC
@SunderlandAFC
in 2018 thousands of fans volunteered to change almost 30,000 seats in our stadium. We did this because of the love for our club & our hard-working values.
Do not take the piss & do not take our support for granted.
Remember - Passion, Pride, Wearside 🔴⚪
#SAFC
4 of our new members of the Bilbao Black Cats were at Wembley against Wycombe. Sadly, they didn't get tickets in our end but got tickets in the Wycombe end. Still, it didn't stop them from showing their true colours at the end of the game.
Fair play lads/oso ondo chavales
#SAFC
6th April, final Vs Mallorca. Some of our members will be in Sunderland for international fans day and the rest in Bilbao to see if Athletic Club can lift the Copa Del Rey for the first time since 1984.
Ha'way The Lads 🔴⚪
Aupa Athletic 🔴⚪
Absolutely disgusting how fast Kyril Louis Dreyfus, Kristjaan Speakman & the other useless off the field management have completely destroyed the feel good factor they themselves spent the last several years creating.
Believe it or not, our branch only started in May 2022. 2 County Durham lads & our kids living in Bilbao set off on our journey to promote
@SunderlandAFC
in
#Bilbao
& the Basque Country. 18 months later we have rapidly grown. Thank you for your support! Eskerrik asko!
🔴⚪
#safc