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Sunderland - Cartoon Champions

19/24 of Cartoon Champions. The last six now both last six-time champion and we are move onto the last six of the Cartoon Champions illustrations. Clawing their way into the top six spots is @sunderlandafcofficial who hasn't been as lucky as of late which was documented in the Netflix series Sunderland 'Til I Die.
Sunderland's official nickname is 'The Black Cats'. The previous nickname, 'The Rokerites', was made redundant after the club left Roker Park for the Stadium of Light in 1997.
Despite the nickname being made official only relatively recently, the black cat has been used as an emblem of the club throughout most of its history. Photographs exist of players holding a black cat which made Roker Park it's home in the 1900s and 1910s, and which was fed and watered by the football club.
Since the 1960s the emblem of the Sunderland A.F.C. Supporters Association has been a black cat. A Sunderland supporter, Billy Morris, took a black cat in his chest pocket as a good luck charm to the 1937 FA Cup final in which Sunderland brought home the trophy for the first time.
The club's first official badge featured a black cat sitting prominently in its centre. Their badge included a ship, the upper part of the Sunderland coat of arms, a black cat, and a football in front of Sunderland's red and white stripes. To coincide with the move from Roker Park to the Stadium of Light in 1997, Sunderland released a new crest divided in four quarters. The crest also contains two lions, the black cats of Sunderland. This was why I made an illustration of a black cat in a similar shape as the one outside the stadium but I added a red and white scarf to make sure it was clear it was the Sunderland black cat. Let me know what you think.
Hope this black cat brings you some luck.
Sunderland - Cartoon Champions
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Sunderland - Cartoon Champions

Sunderland's official nickname is 'The Black Cats'. the black cat has been used as an emblem of the club throughout most of its history. The club Read More

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