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Celebrity Supporters February 14, 2011

Sir Tim Rice: passions for American music, lacrosse and the Lads

There is unlikely to be appetite for dwelling much longer on the disappointment of three successive defeats in games we led from the early stages and ought, in two cases out of three, to have gone on and won. So let us delve instead into the Salut! Sunderland archive for another blast of nostalgia. Sir [...]

Terry Deary: Horrible Histories, horrible modern football

Are you sitting comfortably? That was how I introduced an interview back in 2002 with Terry Deary, bestselling author and lifelong Sunderland fan. It was, of course, part of the Wear Down South series on celebrity supporters; Terry may not be a famous-for-being-famous, Newcastle-style celeb supporter (Ant, Dec and Cheryl springing effortlessly to mind), but [...]

Kate Adie: the naked truth of cheering goals at Newcastle

Gavin Stewart It was time in any case for another look at Kate Adie*, one of the finest TV news reporters this country has produced but more importantly, for the purposes of Salut! Sunderland, a fan since girlhood of SAFC. Occasionally, someone pops up at 606 or Ready to Go alleging that Kate isn’t really [...]

House of the Rising Sunderland fan (who also likes Fulham)

Another slice of Salut! Sunderland nostalgia with apologies to those to whom it is all a bit familiar. Many years ago, when I was writing about Sunderland celebrity supporters for Down South, branch magazine of the London & Southern England SAFSA, the chance arose to interview Alan Price. I had discovered that despite his later [...]

Newcastle/Sunderland flashbacks: when Dr Feelgood felt good then bad

Click here for Salut! Sunderland’s first look at the derby through Mag eyes … Let the build-up to the Tyne-Wear derby begin. We think we know plenty already: Newcastle will not do a PSV Eindhoven and beat us 10-0; we won’t repeat the 1908 scoreline of NUFC 1 SAFC 9, and it will be tense [...]

Peter O’Toole and a lost Sunderland passion

Eight years ago, I thought I’d cracked it for my series of Celebrity Supporter interviews for Wear Down South. Missing out on Gina McKee, Dave Stewart and – bizarrely given his initial enthusiasm – Glenn Hugill had been disappointing, but an exclusive interview with Peter O’Toole beckoned … Peter O’Toole‘s connection with Sunderland AFC was, [...]

Melanie Hill: flirting on the Fulwell

When I thank you for the stream of visits to Salut! Sunderland that has sent us rocketing up the Soccerlinks hit parade to the dizzy heights of the mid-40s, “you” includes the away fans attracted by the Who Are You? feature and such controversies as the Ilunga/Jones affair. While I stand by for an invasion [...]

The celebs who support Sunderland: A-list or Z-list?

Colin Randall has only himself to blame for being lumbered with a search for celeb supporters of Sunderland. He accepted the task cheerfully. He should have known better, having previously done a Famous on the Fulwell piece for A Love Supreme. But he persevered … It was probably the most crushing condemnation of all the [...]

Image conscious in Burnley

Picture this: a simple request to the Burnley FC press office: can we please use your photo of Jimmy Adamson, who managed both our clubs, to accompany a great Q&A with the man who runs Clarets Mad? Missing open goals may be the Turf Moor press office’s forte, as Colin Randall reports … Now Salut! [...]

Lesley Douglas: in case you need cheering up

One of the perks of living a long way from the UK is that you become detached from the media-driven storms that occasionally swamp daily life. Even in Abu Dhabi, I was aware of the row over dodgy calls from Russell Brand, on his BBC Radio 2 show, to the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs. [...]