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Sixer's Sentiments May 15, 2013

Sixer’s Sentiments: looking forward to another Premiership campaign?

Peter Sixsmith is as die hard a Sunderland fan as you are likely to find, such a resolute red and white that he won’t watch anything on telly featuring Ant and Dec, won’t listen to a Jimmy Nail record and won’t eat cod and chips from Fields at Esh Winning if he thinks Robson Green [...]

Epitaph for Eppleton – and hold your horses on Tyneside

Elsewhere, we have made our apologies to mayfly larvae and other forms of pond life feeling insulted at comparison with the Newcastle United ‘fans’ who rampaged through the city centre after their team lost a football game, as their fathers perhaps did before them when Toon suffered reverses. Jake notes that the yobs made it [...]

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Sixer's Sentiments April 1, 2013

West Ham, Lazio, Swindon and now Sunderland: bring in the accused

Monsieur Salut was watching/nodding off to a French crime reconstruction programme, Faites entrer l’accusé (see headline for translation) when news reached him that Paolo Di Canio had been appointed head coach of Sunderland. Di Canio may feel like the accused when he takes his place in the dock at the Stadium of Light for the [...]

Martin O’Neill and the post-Norwich, pre-Man Utd & Chelsea blues

Steve Jacques, a Sunderland supporter, is owed a Salut! Sunderland mug for being the 1,000th follower at Twitter: @salutsunderland. He does not want the Martin O’Neill design. Terry McLoughlin won, to his regret, the Guess the Score competition; he wonders whether the mug’s ‘Team of all Talents’ slogan could be changed to ‘Team of the [...]

Sixer spots the difference as Portsmouth follow Southampton to Hartlepool

.. that difference being that the Saints were on the way up when they visited the Victoria ground. Pompey are heading in the opposite direction. From the heights of the Premier and Wembley to the foot, or nearly, of the third tier with worse possibly to come, Portsmouth present a sorry face. Pete Sixsmith hails [...]

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Sixer's Sentiments February 12, 2013

Of Scotland, Hearts and Craig Gordon – a keeper to fight over

John McCormick writes: Maybe I’m being a romantic and my childhood memories, when Monty almost earned that yellow jersey, are playing tricks with me but I think Sunderland supporters have always had respect for keepers. Whatever the truth I can’t remember anyone maligning Craig Gordon. Maybe this piece, penned by Pete Sixsmith will explain why: [...]

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Sixer's Sentiments December 28, 2012

Sixer’s Sentiments: pots, kettles, lies, damned lies and statistics

With Year 8 otherwise occupied finishing off their selection boxes whilst playing on their i-pads, Pete Sixsmith has time to study the financial pages of The Guardian. Then, when he’s finished that he can study the latest in football statistics published in the sports section. It’s amazing what a couple of wins can do. Like [...]

Observing Sunderland – Pete Sixsmith’s mid term review

Salut! Sunderland is the website that others increasingly turn to for opinions and analysis and once again the Observer newspaper asked Pete Sixsmith for his thoughts on the season so far. Here’s what he sent them but you’ll have to buy the paper to see if they print them. IT’S BEEN A REAL STINKER SO [...]

Sleeping with the enemy: Pete Sixsmith tells Man Utd fans how it is!

Scott the Red, the driving force behind the Republik of Mancunia website certainly provoked reaction from the Sunderland faithful with his reaction to last season’s Poznan. Pete Sixsmith is perhaps less provocative when reciprocating with his responses to the questions put to him for publication on their site. What follows is the set of questions [...]

Age Concern, Martin O’Neill and that gap between Aston Villa and Sunderland

Before anyone starts, Pete Sixsmith is NOT denouncing Martin O’Neill as too old for the job. He just wonders whether his own late-career experience offers any parallel with that of the Sunderland manager …

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