Top flight* League fixture
*Then known as Division One

Notts County 6     Sunderland 1
Christie                                                   Bracewell
Worthington
McParland
Chiedozie
Chiedozie
Richards

HT 3-1

Attendance :- 7,123
 

Notts County
Colours:- White shirts with black dual pinstripes, Black shorts, White socks
League Position:- before match 18th/22, after match 18th/22
Manager:- Larry Lloyd

1.   Seamus McDonagh
2.   Mark Goodwin
3.   Nigel Worthington
4.   Pedro Richards
5.   David Hunt
6.   Tristan Benjamin
7.   Martin O'Neill
8.   Justin Fashanu
9.   Trevor Christie
10. Ian McParland
11. John Chiedozie

Sub not used: David Clarke

Sunderland
Colours:- ?All yellow with black trim?
League Position:- before match 14th/22, after match 15th/22
Manager:- Alan Durban

1.   Chris Turner
2.   Barry Venison
3.   Nick Pickering
4.   Ian Atkins
5.   Gordon Chisholm
6.   Shaun Elliot
7.   Paul Bracewell
8.   Gary Rowell
9.   Colin West
10. Mark Proctor
11. Leighton James *

Sub: Paul Atkinson *

Video of the match:- Tragically, no video or TV camera was present.

Match Report
None available

Up the Maggies footnote:
Notts had entertained Birmingham City yet again on the Monday night in a 3rd replay in the League Cup Third round, a 3-1 win for the Blues finally brought the tie to a conclusion. Two days before that, County had travelled to QPR - Glenn Roeder's current club, Rangers wanted £150,000 for him and the Notts chairman Jack Dunnett announced that he would put up half of the money if supporters could raise the rest, which prompted the embarrassing "Buy Glenn Roeder appeal" (school friends really took the piss out of me over that). Roeder didn't play in the QPR match (for either side) and was now back at Rangers with his loan period expired, Notts made the journey back up to Nottingham without any points either as QPR won 1-0. Sunderland arrived in Nottingham on 10th December having taken 10 points from their last four away league games and 6 of those points had been won at Arsenal and Liverpool! But they found that even Pedro Richards had his shooting boots on at Meadow Lane as County ran riot, following up the 5-2 home win over Villa with this startling 6-1 victory (Notts biggest win margin since beating Hull City 5-0 nine years earlier). What a shame so few were there to see it as County suffered their lowest Saturday crowd since the promotion season (more people had turned up for the Monday night 3rd replay with Birmingham!). Sunderland sacked manager Alan Durban later in the season on 2nd March.

Notts County Season 1983/84
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