Reading a coffee table book about the British outdoor clothing industry (for my sins) and came across this picture used to illustrate how cagoules became fashionable in the 90s. Captioned as unidentified so obviously I now need to completely identify the match.  

The home team’s Sunderland. The bloke front-left has a Hummel trackie top on that I’ve found online captioned as being from 1992. The kit on the Sunderland players is definitely not the Avec one they switched to in 1994 as that had a massive red area on the shoulder, so the game is from the 91-92, 92-93 or 93-94 seasons. The Teesside outfit were playing their trade in the second tier at that time and it looks very much like they’ve just scored. Weather looks gloomy but that doesn’t narrow it down much.  

The kit the opposition’s wearing is going to be the key to identifying this. It’s a kind of mid blue with a big white collar, white shorts and paler blue-looking socks. Obviously I’m trawling through all the teams they faced in the league, particularly the away kits the red-shirted ones wore, but thought I’d share it on here to try and speed things up.  

I thought I had it as Sunderland 1 Middlesbrough 0 in April 92 but video of that match shows that Middlesbrough wore black shorts… none of the blue-wearing opposition in that season (yer Millwalls, yer Ipswiches etc.) seem to have worn a blue that shade or had a collar that white…

“Unidentified football terraces, early 1990s”