Wear Down South - Newsletter

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The Branch publishes some six editions of Wear Down South throughout the season. Members are actively encouraged to submit articles - indeed w e welcome your newsletter contributions whether they be funny, informative or if you’ve simply got something to get off your chest.

The newsletter Editor is Eileen Sproates and y ou can send contributions to her at:

EILEENSPROATES@AOL.COM

We're always on the lookout for articles of interest primarily to Sunderland supporters but also tales of Mackems in their travels around the globe.

For a list of selected archive articles click here

Newsletter covers over the years...

Over the last 25 years, a number of Branch members have given up their time to produce the Branch newsletter. During this period, its editors have included Andy Nichol, Trevor Longstaff and Eileen Sproates. The newsletter started out as The Sunderland Newsletter but after some time metamophosed into 5573 which commemorated the date of our last FA Cup triumph. In the mid-nineties, the membership voted narrowly to change the name to Wear Down South. In the seventies and eighties, the production process was very 'hands-on' with volunteers typing up articles then running them off on the Branch's Gestetner ink printer. Since those days, we've moved with the times and from the late eighties to the present, the printing process has been completed professionally with electronic copy passing from author to editor and to printers with comparative ease.