WE WERE WEARSIDE
BY GRAHAM FALK AND PETER G. OLIVER
 
Eleven players. Eleven very different journeys. One football club that got under their skin.
 
Featuring exclusive interviews with:
Patrick Roberts
Phil Gray
Thomas Sorensen
Martin Smith
Nicky Summerbee
Stefan Schwarz
Carlos Edwards
Simon Ramsden
Danny Higginbotham
Paul Thirlwell
Tom Flanagan
 
In We Were Wearside, Graham Falk and Peter G. Oliver go back to the men who wore the red and white and ask them to tell the stories behind the moments Sunderland supporters still talk about. The triumphs, disasters, dressing rooms, managers, transfers and extraordinary incidents that never made the back pages are remembered by the people who were actually there.
 
But every chapter is also part of a bigger story. Players arrive on Wearside from different countries, cultures and backgrounds, never quite knowing what they have signed up for. Some become heroes. Some divide opinion. Some are only truly understood years later.
 
All become part of the history of a football club woven into the identity of its city, where players come and go but the memories they leave behind are passed between generations. Funny, revealing and deeply personal, We Were Wearside is Sunderland remembered from both sides of the touchline.
 
11 Players. 11 Stories. 1 City.