Monsieur Salut writes: one of the joys of editing Salut! Sunderland is the chance it offers to read the gems of Pete Sixsmith even before they appear before the public gaze. Book publishers should be now be forming an orderly or disorderly queue to snap up rights to his magnificent twin series, The First Time […]
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Sunderland vs Manchester City. Checkatrade Guess the Score and Wembley memories
GUESS THE SCORE: The Checktrade rules are simple – no extra time but penalties if scores are level at 90 minutes. For the prize mug – whoever you support – you must correctly predict the score at full time and, if the teams are drawing, the winner on penalties (don’t worry about the shoot-out score). […]
Sixer Says: torn between two loves as Sunderland Under 23s visit Shildon
Monsieur Salut says: Shildon is where Pete Sixsmith and I grew up after unpromising starts to life (me in Hove, Pete in Leeds). My dad was secretary of the Northern League side for several years despite his funny Cockney accent. Pete still turns out to watch them as often as he can and lives close […]
As the World Cup looms, we remember why Sixer just loved Brazil 2014
The World Cup is almost upon us. Time will tell what Salut! Sunderland’s contributors will make of it. All offerings welcome. Pete Sixsmith always comes up with interesting aspects and at least we have a handful of players to keep our interest up: Jordan Pickford (pictured by his occasional driver, this site’s great friend and […]
Sixer says: goodbye John O’Shea, Robbie Stockdale and Adrian Tucker
John McCormick writes: in this short piece Pete Sixsmith casts his eye over a couple of the more minor changes that have happened to our club in recent days. I say minor, that’s just in comparison to what else has gone on. We have lost three of the more successful, and more unassuming, people at […]
Sunderland’s new order: Stewart Donald, Charlie Methven and Benjamin the Donkey
Pete Sixsmith is on leave. In his place, Benjamin the Donkey interprets his thoughts … unless it’s Sixer in disguise As is well known around the area, we donkeys are noted for our cynicism and unwillingness to believe that, to quote the song, “Things Can Only Get Better”. The general consensus amongst we members of […]
Sixer and Orwell: from Benjamin the donkey to Donald the SAFC saviour?
Monsieur Salut writes: what might George Orwell have said of the takeover? Will a new manager give Jack Rodwell a cuddle and turn him back into the player he thinks he still is? Questions about the takeover abound and who better than Pete Sixsmith to delve into his old George Orwell paperbacks, and memories of teaching history to […]
Sixer’s selection: The Good, the OK, the Downright Awful and the Borrowed
John McCormick writes: I’m remaining neutral in respect of a preference for promotion but I have to express an opinion about last night’s result. While we were outplayed for a lot of the second half Fulham only won because of two decisions the ref got wrong. One was to allow a goal where the scorer […]
Sixer’s Sunderland renown goes global – or as far as a USA Fulham fan site
Got just under half an hour to spare? Click on the image of Sixer above and you then scroll down to hear a gloomily entertaining interview with a Fulham name familiar to anyone who enjoys Salut! Sunderland‘s Who are You? series. (more…)
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Sunderland vs Accrington Stanley prize Guess the Score. Time for players to raise their games
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SAFC vs Blackpool prize Guess the Score. Wanted: a winning home debut from Grigg
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Sixer’s Sevens from Oxford United 1-1 SAFC: another letdown
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Sixer’s Oxford United Soapbox: déjà vu as a Sunderland speciality
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The Lars Word: how to end Sunderland’s drawing habit while remaining hard to beat
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Sixer’s Soapbox: Accrington have bottle. What about Sunderland?
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Sixer’s Sevens: Sunderland manage to draw at home to Accrington Stanley
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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Team – Accrington Stanley
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Sunderland vs Accrington Stanley prize Guess the Score. Time for players to raise their games
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Accrington Stanley Who are You?: ‘a Sunderland occasion to relish- at the owner’s expense’
You’re going to like this but not a lot as Maja does his disappearing act
Well it’s finally happened and Josh Maja is departing for pastures new as the following Twitter post from Nick Barnes confirms. To clarify: @stewartdonald3 has told me Josh Maja has played his last game for #safc. They had hoped they could keep hold of him until the summer but the player took his belongings and […]