SAFC Legend Ian Porterfield
By: Stephen | November 18th, 2009So I was thinking the other day, that I need more articles about the legends at Sunderland. While it could be easy to talk about Kevin Phillips, or Naill Quinn. I figured I should go back further. Ian Porterfield. May he rest in peace.
He will be always remembered for the fact that his goal helped the Black Cats win their last trophy, the 1973 FA Cup.
1) Scoring the winning goal for Sunderland in the 1973 cup final against Leeds.
2) Drawing with Portugal whilst manager of Armenia (seriously Armenia!) only a month ago.
3) Being hard enough to manage a Chelsea squad that had Vinnie Jones, Dennis Wise, and Stan “The Man” Ternant causing havoc in the dressing room.
4) Becoming the first manager ever to be sacked in the Premier League (an odd achievement, but hey he’s in the record books).
5) Winning Division Three with Rotherham 1980/81 season.
6) Winning Division Four with Sheffield United 1981/82 season.
7) Promotion from Division Three with Sheffield Untied 1983/84 season.
8 ) Starting the rebuilding the Zambian team after the tragic plane crash in 1993 that killed many of the nation’s best players
9) Winning the Korean FA Cup with Busan I’Park in 2004
10) Winning the Korean K League with Busan I’Park in 2005
It’s a shame he never came back as a mananger, then again he did follow Sir Alex at Aberdeen, which didn’t last long. He also has the stupid record of being the first manager ever fired in the EPL. Ian, would have still in that time period been our best manager too. Which is scary, but almost way too true. Outside of Bob Stokoe can you name any other really good managers the club has had? hmmmm maybe that could be another blog post for me.
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