Sunderland Football Club

Because they were playing against Sport Lisboa e Benfica, which use the same kit colours.

Manchester united play Chelsea in the champions league final on Wednesday the 21st may 2008. The two teams have already played twice this year in the premiership with a win going to each team.

Manchester United 2 - 0 Chelsea

Chelsea 2 - 1 Mancheser United : Scorers for Chelsea: Ballack pen, Ballack header United Scorers: Rooney

The Stadium of Light held its first game on the 31st of July 1997, a 0-0 draw in a friendly with Ajax of Amsterdam.

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Makem is a contraction of the local pronunciation of "Make them".

According to our neighbours north of the Tyne (who's own dialect provides us with much amusement) we don't "Make them and take them" we "Mak'em and Tak'em".

So this is more of an insult (that we have endured and accepted because of popular usage) than a self adopted title.

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The club's motto is Consectatio Excellentiae, which means " In pursuit of excellence ".

Sunderland won the 1973 FA Cup to set up a date with Liverpool, the League Champions, in the Charity Shield. However Liverpool decljned to play Sunderland. Without Liverpool as opponents Sunderland decided not to play at all. This left that years Charity Shield match to be competed for by Manchester City who had won the competition in 1972 and Burnley who were the 2nd Division champions. It was mooted that the reason Liverpool declined to play Sunderland was due to the humiliation heaped upon Leeds United when they were defeated by Sunderland in the F A Cup final. Quite simply, they didn't want a repeat episode.

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St. James Park ( Newcastle ) and the Stadium of Light ( Sunderland ) are approximately 14 miles from each other.

Due to their close proximity they consider themselves local rivals.

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I would suggest that if you work for a company where you feel you are not valued and where the boss publicly ridicules you ( Redknapp's " My wife could have scored " comment) you are unlikely to consider it a good place to work.

To Sunder something means to seperate it, or to cut it in half.

Sunderland is seperated ( cut in half ) by the River Wear, hence the name Sunderland. ( the sundered-land ).

Republic of Ireland international, James McLean, currently wears the number 23 shirt at Sunderland.

The highest scoring game in Premier League history as the 7-4 thriller between Portsmouth and Reading on 29-Sep-2007.

Sunderland 's first season in the Football league was the 1890/91 season where they finished 7th out of 12 clubs.

If it wasn't for a 2 point deduction the woul have finished 5th.

The name 'The Stadium of Light' is in reference to the fact that the stadium is located on the site of the old Wearmouth Colliery (coal mine), which closed in 1994. To mark this a giant statue of a Davy Lamp is located in front of the main box office and behind the west stand there is a large red wheel, an emblem of the lifts which used to take the miners down to the mine itself.

That is how it got its name.

When Sunderland moved from Roker Park to the Stadium of Light, their old nickname such as the Rokerites, were not relevant

They asked supporters what they wanted their nickname to be.

Several suggestions were sent to the club and over 11,000 fans voted ' the black cats ' and this became their nickname.

2 Black Cats, one male and one female. Male is called Sampson. Female is called Delilah. Sampson and Delilah.

Bill Murray managed Sunderland for 512 games between April 1939 and June 1957.

Sunderland have never won the English Premier League.

They have been League Champions six times : 1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913, 1936