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Another team, The Lars Word September 18, 2012

The Lars Word: surviving Suarez, a Sunderland fan’s soft spot for Liverpool

Despite a curious but brief boyhood flirtation with Peterborough United, Monsieur Salut does not really approve of “second teams”. But he can think of Sunderland supporters who would share Lars Knutsen‘s declaration of more than grudging respect and admiration for Liverpool – plus a few who would profess to loathe them …

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Another team August 25, 2010

Another team I like: Histon, conquerors of once-mighty Leeds

As I cleared the spam box of drivel about colon cleansing, quack weight loss treatments and fake designer handbags, it dawned on me that our own Pete Sixsmith isn’t the only Sunderland fan with a strong, occasionally stronger (like last night, when he gave Colchester a miss) attachment to non-league footie. Stephen “FTM” Thompson*, the [...]

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Another team July 21, 2010

Another team I like: (3) the Two Blues of Bishop Auckland

Long before Bill Taylor set up home in the other Toronto, the one that that isn’t quite capital of Canada, he lived near Toronto, Co Durham. In Bishop Auckland, to be precise, home of great conker trees in the Bishop’s park and – during his boyhood – the all-conquering Two Blues at Kingsway. Bishop Auckland [...]

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Another team July 20, 2010

Another team I like: (2) the Tour de France (teams)

Image: Le Rouleur Lent When I lived in Paris, part of the finale of the Tour de France took place in the street five floors beneath my front window. It left me cold. All it meant was that it was a lot harder to get around. Pete Sixsmith begs to differ, and just loves those [...]

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Another team July 19, 2010

Another team I like: (1) Peterborough United

Probably everyone has another team they’re fond of. Most regulars to these pages live, breathe, love Sunderland AFC. Some of us would not dream of having a “second club”. But there are equally loyal fans do who have such a thing in their lives, and indeed third or fourth clubs, too, and many of the [...]

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End of season reviews 2013 May 22, 2013

Salut! Sunderland’s end-of-season reviews: (6) Doors to the past close, another opens …

Ken Gambles is a regular contributor to Salut! Sunderland. He has endured worse than the season just gone, enough to [...]

End of season reviews 2013 May 22, 2013

Salut! Sunderland’s end-of-season reviews: (5) stuck at the bottom with bucketloads of shame

Ian Todd,* co-founder of the London and Southern England branch of the Sunderland AFC Supporters’ Association, probably gets to as [...]

End of season reviews 2013 May 21, 2013

Salut! Sunderland’s end-of-season reviews: (4) who should stay, who shouldn’t

One consolation in supporting the Sunderland from a really long way away, as opposed to a neighbouring European country, is [...]

Sixer's Soapbox May 20, 2013

The Tottenham v Sunderland Soapbox: a Good-Bye to All That

We’re not sure Robert Graves had in mind an end-of-season encounter in an undreamed-of football league when he wrote his [...]

Paolo's Pow-Wow May 19, 2013

Paolo’s Pow-Wow from Tottenham: ‘fans outsang Spurs, team gave their all’

Paolo Di Canio’s last post-match e-mail of the season, a season we are grateful to see over, rightly praises the [...]

Sixer's Sevens 2012-2013 May 19, 2013

Sixer’s Sevens: Tottenham Hotspur 1 SAFC 0. Brave, daft, defeated

Despite surviving appeals for three penalties we would have been horrified to see denied to Sunderland, PDC’s team held out [...]