Just shy of two weeks ago I went to London for the weekend to watch my beloved Sunderland play in their first Wembley cup final in over 20 years. I'm not exactly friends with people who tend to take a lot of pictures but we took quite a few that weekend. Despite the result we had a brilliant weekend.
In the pub pre-match. I'm second from the left.
In the same pub, pre-match. You can just tell it's actually full in this one. Around 5 or 6 beers deep at this point before noon, and singing Elvis - Wise Men Say.
Taken from my seat before kick off.
Wembley selfie.
And this was after the match at a pub near Baker Street somewhere, where the old fella on the right came over and talked to us. He was born in Sunderland, moved to the US and has been in LA now for 42 years, very rarely taking trips home. He had come back for a few days for the match and wanted to buy all the Sunderland lads a drink, which he did, and it certainly wasnt cheap. I don't think he understood that we were taking this photo because we wanted a photo WITH him though.