We’re not sure Robert Graves had in mind an end-of-season encounter in an undreamed-of football league when he wrote his wildly premature autobiography in 1929 (he lived on for 56 years). Pete Sixsmith was there, not on May 4 1929 when Sunderland were on the wrong end of a 4-0 thumping by Sheffield United yet [...]
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Southampton Soapbox: another wretched display puts Sunderland’s fate in Arsenal’s hands
The cruel truth is that our season seems over. Sunderland inspire so little confidence that many, maybe most supporters feel at least they’ll know the worst by tomorrow night. In other words, Wigan fail to win and we survive, they win and we go down, since few consider Sunderland up to doing the job for [...]
Sixer’s Stoke Soapbox: a point from the Potters but is it enough?
Pete Sixsmith, who shared some wretched news with me today about a good mutual friend, in his case a very close one, offers a clinical analysis of the match but ends with precisely the right sense of perspective. Our deepest sympathies go to Pete Horan, Emma and Clare on the loss of Pete H’s much-loved [...]
Sunderland, Leeds and Wembley 1973 (9): Sixer’s Soapbox on a day of glory
Pete Sixsmith***** was there. Monsieur Salut was not, having been repeatedly promised a ticket by a drunken colleague whose work gave him close contact with Wembley. The promises continued right up to May 4 but the ticket did not materialise.. A fabulous day all the same, even if you had to watch it in an [...]
Sixer’s Everton Soapbox: Toffees chewed up, now Bent on a Villa clincher
We’ve all seen false dawns but no one can seriously doubt the impact Paolo Di Canio has had or where we would be, for all his feelings of being hard done by, had Martin O’Neill stayed. Pete Sixsmith wonders whether the same commitment from players and fans seen on Saturday can propel SAFC to safety [...]
The Newcastle-Sunderland Soapbox: high times, low life
The scoreline bears repeating over and again: Newcastle United 0 Sunderland 3. It was a wonderful team performance and it seems beyond belief that Alan Pardew should place such store by the wrongly disallowed Newcastle goal when Howard Webb had spared his side two, perhaps three first-half penalties, the likelihood of an early Sess goal [...]
Manchester United Soapbox: O’Neill gone but where do we go from here?
Pete Sixsmith asks the question, but the answer is anyone’s guess on this bleak day for Sunderland supporters ..
Sixer’s FA Vase Soapbox: a letter to Shildon from Disappointed, Tunbridge Wells
Pete Sixsmith profits from a football-free (you know what I mean) weekend when at least no one has to worry about the Sunderland score and heads for Kent in search of cup glory for Shildon. Fond dreams of Wembley live on after a first leg setback …
The Sunderland-Norwich Soapbox: a textbook demonstration of ineptitude
Seven full internationals started the game for Martin O’Neill. Pete Sixsmith could be forgiven for wondering whether it was San Marino they had all played for until the manager decided they weren’t quite up to it. This is not the place to come on a wintry Monday morning if your spirits need lifting. It is, [...]
The Luton Soapbox: Sunderland take another stride towards Wembley
Pete Sixsmith thought he might have seen everything with the fabulous 3-1 win over mighty Man City in the fifth round. Luton Town presented less glamorous quarter-final opposition and the football was not quite so scintillating. But we’re in the semis and that is what counts … continuing our 40th anniversary celebrations of a great [...]
The Salut! Sunderland Readership Count
And where we stand in the hit parade …
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Salut! Sunderland’s two million hits party: even Newcastle and Middlesbrough are invited
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Three cheers as Ellis Short’s publicists show contempt for contrived Newcastle row
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As Liverpool vultures circle, Simon Mignolet knows he’ll be remembered with affection
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SuperKev: will the next generation have a chance to see his skills?
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Hull City FC: it used to be Hell and High Water, now it’s KC stadium and the sunshine band
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The History Programme: SAFC v Cardiff City and John Charles, Il Gigante Buono
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Three cheers as Ellis Short’s publicists show contempt for contrived Newcastle row
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Don’t panic. Still time to enter Salut! Sunderland’s Two Million Hits competition
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As Liverpool vultures circle, Simon Mignolet knows he’ll be remembered with affection
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Hull City FC: it used to be Hell and High Water, now it’s KC stadium and the sunshine band
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