Sunderland 0 Middlesbrough 0
Outcome: Drawn
Date: 11/14/1981
Manager: Bobby Murdoch
Attendance: 21019
Competition: Division One
Goals:
Team
| Player | Yellow | Red | Subbed |
| Jim Platt | |||
| Irving Nattrass | |||
| Joe Bolton | |||
| Mick Baxter | |||
| Tony McAndrew | |||
| Heine Otto | |||
| Bobby Thomson | |||
| Colin Ross | |||
| Billy Woof | |||
| Dave Shearer | |||
| Terry Cochrane |
Subs
| Player | Yellow | Red | Subbed |
| David Hodgson |