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PDC’s stern headmaster act boosts our Spurs vs Sunderland ‘Guess the Score’

Your chance to guess the score in the last game of the season and, just maybe, win a life-enhancing prize … This is what Stan Collymore tweeted the other day after Arsenal had saved our bacon: “Spurs & Arsenal, the shootout on Sunday! We’ll be across every game,as the goals fly in on Super Sunday!” [...]

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Guess the Score as SAFC/Southampton, Wigan, Newcastle, Norwich, Aston Villa, Stoke, Fulham fight drop

Only one relegation spot left yet any of eight teams could fill it. The scenarios are not endless but they are certainly plentiful. With Wigan engaged in the FA Cup final this weekend, the agony may go on to the last day.

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SAFC v Stoke City ‘Guess the Score’: anyone saying 1-6 is disqualified

We’d all hoped the mini-revival sparked by Paolo di Canio’s arrival would turn the Stoke game on Monday night into a much more relaxed occasion that seemed likely just before he arrived as head coach. Villa Park, and a couple of good results for Stoke, changed all that.

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Charlie Hurley in lights as you guess the Aston Villa-SAFC score

Just before we get on to the business of inviting score predictions for the monumental game at Villa Park on Monday, there’s a spot of housekeeping to announce.

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SAFC v Everton: no Cahill, no Webb to fall for an ‘Osman’. Guess the Score

Tim Cahill been shunted off to New York. Howard Webb is demoted to pub league football, or whatever is deemed his punishment for stopping Sunderland being four-up at half time against Newcastle, and no other referee in the world will surely, ever again, fall for the Leon Osman penalty trick. That still leaves the small [...]

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Newcastle United v Sunderland: 9-1 to SAFC unlikely but Guess the Score

Thanks to the combined forces of Twitter and ESPN, Salut! Sunderland has an Evertonian lined up for the game after the Tyne-Wear derby, plus two willing hands for next season and also a spare Mag for next season IF …. And at ESPN I have given another outing to the story of Big Jim and [...]

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Chelsea v SAFC: few give us much chance but guess the score

I have had fun all week with the disparate band of people in various lands who post comments to the club-by-club part of the ESPN website – http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/sunderland/id/1359?cc=5739.

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Sunderland v Manchester United: wise babies say guess the score

Guess the score in Sunderland v Manchester United and you could win a life-changing prize or, if we’re clean out of stock, a mug … Xuana does not know it – she was only one this week – but her dad is hoping against better judgement for big things this weekend from the reason for [...]

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SAFC v Norwich City: keep spirits high as you Guess the Score

  As promised, Salut! Sunderland is on an upbeat track. There is a time for carping and seriously critical analysis but that time is in the days immediately following some disappointment on the field. Plenty of such material was published here and that is how it should be. But now, an absolutely vital match of [...]

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QPR v Sunderland: hoops or stripes, guess the score whoever you support

Is it past midnight? Then let’s begin this week’s Guess the Score. I live in hope that one of our moneyed readers will one day come up with meaningful prizes for the little competitions. In the meantime, I am once again offering a Martin O’Neill mug to the first person who correctly posts the outcome [...]

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‘Who are You?’ awards: Everton, Wigan and both Manchesters contest Villa’s crown

Salut! Sunderland’s awards season is back. Every Sunderland match is preceded by an interview with a fan, who may be [...]

Salut! Sunderland’s end-of-season reviews: (9) Sixer’s closing chapter. No happy ending

What a relief. Escaping relegation was good enough. Not having to worry about Guess the Score, Who are You? and [...]

Salut Podcast: Sunderland’s season review! O’Neill, Di Canio, where now?

  And so another season draws to a close. It’s fair to say the contrast in the campaign’s two managers [...]

Salut! Sunderland’s end-of-season reviews: (8) four highs but six lows

John McCormick writes: As my brother-in-law Ed and I walked from Goodison into the well-worn district of Tuebrook, to await a [...]

Salut! Sunderland’s end-of-season reviews: (7) slower than my 9-year-olds

Stephen Goldsmith is not just a budding broadcast sports journalist, podcast wizard and Salut! Sunderland assistant editor. He also coaches [...]

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 [...]