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Jake and the art of fatherhood

Salut! Sunderland brings happy news of a new addition to the family of our star artist, known here only as Jake though his graphics wizardry has transformed these pages.

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Street League and how to help Sunderland & Shields jobless

Salut! Sunderland has been asked to give a little space to a fund-racing project bringing together the football charity Street League and the table football people Foosball UK.. Street League sets out to deliver “football and employability programmes to some of the UK’s most disadvantaged young people” and claims “countless success stories” working with 16-25 [...]

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Stephen Foster RIP: supporter of Stoke, friend of Salut! Sunderland

Salut! Sunderland last heard from Stephen Foster, a richly talented man whose books on supporting Stoke City probably made him little or no money but stand as Hornby-standard classics of football writing, in January. Two months earlier, Stephen had contributed an excellent set of answers to the Who are You? questionnaire for the Sunderland v [...]

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Sickbed blues, and never having to say sorry

Image: Mrs Logic We have the sterling assistance of Pete Sixsmith, Luke Harvey, Bill Taylor and our Who Are You? contributors to thank, along with the good fortune of a long break without proper football. But one way or another, Salut! Sunderland has done its utmost to keep up a decent stream of of interesting, [...]

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Champions: 1996, 1999, 2005 and 2007 all over again

Anything the first team can do, the Lads who support them can do too.

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Our 1973 cup heroes at book signing before Man Utd game

Late news just in from Lance Hardy, author of the acclaimed book on Sunderland’s momentous FA Cup Final victory over Leeds United in 1973. He will be signing copies of the book at the Stadium of Light official club store between 11.30am and 1.30pm on Sunday – that is, before the match against Man Utd [...]

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Stopping spam – and how it affects you

We have finally accepted the repeated advice of the web gurus of footballunited.com and resolved to act against the spammers who pollute Salut! Sunderland‘s comment field. The problem has become worse has the site has grown, notably in recent months, to the extent that tedious daily cleansing is now required to rid the site of [...]

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A Lug Supreme: star cast boosts Sunderland’s climbers

Follow Salut! Sunderland‘s example and give some help to a great cause … The lads from the superb Sunderland fanzine A Love Supreme deserve our support as they prepare to climb Mount Kilmanjaro this summer. The trek is in aid of the Coco children’s charity chaired by Steve Cram, the athletics gold medallist turned commentator [...]

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Websites and parasites: fighting back

No game this weekend – though we should, of course, have been playing Southampton in the FA Cup – so it seems the right time to deal with a spot of necessary admin: how to combat a scourge of the internet age … Salut! Sunderland, and its sister sites Salut! , Salut! Live and Salut! [...]

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Advice from Confucius as Salut! Sunderland flees to the Orient

After the recent blitz of posting, Salut! Sunderland – or part of its crew – is abandoning ship, or at least indulging in a little shore leave.

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Sixer’s Sentiments on Aston Villa and Liverpool: two Americans, two sackings

Pete Sixsmith casts an eye over the turmoil at Villa Park and Anfield …

Game of the Season: the road to Wigan’s peerless joy

With apologies for the laboured pun – and M Salut promises not to add, ”Or Well, what did you expect?” [...]

And the winners are, in no particular order, Liverpool, Wolves, Aston Villa

With renewed gratitude to our sponsors – http://www.soccerpro.com/ and When Saturday Comes, we can announce the winners in our annual [...]

Sunderland end of term reviews (2): ‘no beaten army, just battle fatigue’

Perhaps we’ve heard too many bleatings from Sunderland fans that we were the most boring team in the Premier, finished [...]

The road to glory (2): Liverpool, Wolves close gap on Aston Villa

Part one of our report on the judges’ decision in our annual ”Who are You?” awards, in which Salut! Sunderland [...]

On the road to glory with Aston Villa, Swansea and Newcastle ahead

Week in week out, supporters from the teams Sunderland are next due to play rise to the occasion and take [...]