Fan Letters: Tim Gilbert Memories, Holding In The Box, and 73 Semi Stories!

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Sunderland team group: (back row, l-r) Jack Ashurst, Robert Lee, Barry Siddall, I Watson, Jeff Clarke, Shaun Elliott (middle row, l-r) manager Jimmy Adamson, Mick Docherty, Tim Gilbert, Kevin Arnott, Joe Bolton, Michael Henderson (front row, l-r) Gary Rowell, Wayne Enwhistle, Bobby Kerr, Roy Greenwood, Wilf Rostron (Photo by S&G/PA Images via Getty Images) | PA Images via Getty Images Dear Roker Report, My good friend’s Dad played for Sunderland. His name was Tim Gilbert and he came through the youth intake at Sunderland and played for them from 1976 to 1980. Sadly Tim died at a very young age.

It is his son’s 40th birthday in July and he is about to become a father himself so we wanted to do something for him that honours his own Dad. We have bought the home-and-away Sunderland shirts from 1978 and we are going to have them framed but we wanted to put some photos/memorabilia in the frame too. I have been on eBay buying old Sunderland match-day programmes from that time period to see if he was featured in them.

I know the programmes were called Roker Review and featured write-ups on specific players each week. I am just wondering if you could help me to locate any write-ups or photos of Tim from his days at SAFC. I would be very grateful for any help.