It is a fact of life as we find it, says Monsieur Salut. Sunderland start the Carabao Cup tie (league cup to you and me) against the Owls on Thursday night as lower-league underdogs. While we all hope that situation will last for only one season – unless, contrary to the expectations of many of […]
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Luton vs Sunderland Guess the Score. Which 2007 visit will it be more like?
? Back in 2007, Sunderland went to Luton for the last game of the season as a side already promoted to the Premier League under Roy Keane. A sensational 5-0 victory, and Birmingham’s defeat at Preston, gave Keano the title. This is how, 11 years ago, the youthful Salut! Sunderland recorded the win. Less than […]
Sunderland vs Charlton and the return of the prize Guess the Score
Monsieur Salut writes: roll up, roll up to place your predicted scoreline for the opening game of our return to the third tier – or to claim old prizes I somehow overlooked (one Evertonian, Bernard Walker, is in that category and will receive his I-won’t-let-this-change-me award, a mug, for correctly forecasting the dismal result of […]
SAFC vs Wolverhampton Wanderers prize Guess the Score: two farewells to Championship football
Ignore any rumour that the BBC Radio Newcastle has asked its Durham CCC man Martin Emmerson to return to the Stadium of Light commentary box in place of Nick Barnes given the prospect of a cricket-style score in Sunderland’s final game of the season. It’s a mischievously intriguing thought all the same. (more…)
Fulham Guess the Score as Olivia, three, asks: ‘Will people laugh at my Sunderland top?’
Today, we hand over the penultimate prize Guess the Score* to a three-year-old girl who has embarked, even at such tender an age, on a lifetime of what we all know supporting Sunderland brings. As Derek Scott points out, we have already heard eloquently from his daughter Natasha, keeping faith from faraway Cornwall. (Re-read her […]
SAFC vs Burton Albion prize Guess the Score: a mere battle for second bottom?
First of all, let Salut! Sunderland add its tribute to the supporters who have put up with this season’s woeful absence of quality, commitment and results and attended games week after week. Almost as a further act of torture, the mathematical possibility of survival cannot vanish altogether if SAFC beat Burton Albion in what otherwise […]
Reading vs SAFC Guess the Score: the clock ticking down
Monsieur Salut writes: by the time you read this, I’ll be on holiday and trying very hard not to think about football … We have an oddly anonymous Reading Who are You? still to come – maybe they’re all recluses in the Thames Valley – and the result, as I write before the Leeds game, […]
Norwich Guess the Score: to think we’ll be at the World Cup
Monsieur Salut writes: a family holiday looms so this is being prepared between Black Monday, perhaps the defining moment of a wretched season when even a half-decent performance was undone by the usual defensive frailties, and whatever happens at Leeds. I leave it to Salut! Sunderland colleagues to update this introduction as they see fit […]
Birmingham pull clear. Anyone for 0-1 in Leeds-SAFC Guess the Score?
We have got used to fantasy entries in Guess the Score. You know, the ones that predict a Sunderland win (especially if there’s already been one in living memory). (more…)
SAFC vs Sheffield Wednesday prize Guess the Score: can we do it again?
Seven games to go and after that resounding win at Derby on a very Good Friday, Sheffield Wednesday are the Easter Monday visitors to the Stadium of Light. For once, it looks as if we may have to do without a Who are You? interview. Monsieur Salut did find a willing candidate. There’s a good […]
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Luton vs Sunderland Guess the Score. Which 2007 visit will it be more like?
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SAFC vs Sheffield Wednesday prize Guess the Score: we’re the underdogs
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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Ground: Luton Town and Kenilworth Road
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A Long and Winding Road leads to Luton Town and a hard fought draw
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View From the North West Corner: give Catts a break
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Stoke City, the U23s and the Hetton Irregulars. What more could you want on a Monday Night?
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Sheffield Wednesday Who are You?: ‘League One might be good for you. We should know’
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SAFC vs Sheffield Wednesday prize Guess the Score: we’re the underdogs
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View From the North West Corner: give Catts a break
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After a four-point start to the season, it is time for the carping to stop?
After a four-point start to the season, it is time for the carping to stop?
Three references to the approach some Sunderland supporters adopt towards their club caught the eye yesterday and today, says Monsieur […]