Absent from the North East, missing from Euro 2008, Salut! Sunderland is lucky to have Pete Sixsmith to turn to back home. And Pete’s wit and wisdom have been spotted far beyond Coutny Durham; his delicious teacher’s advice* to the geographically and historically challenged David Pleat, already hailed by Shane Breslin of the Irish eleven-a-side […]
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Soapbox: the Russians were coming
Pete Sixsmith marvelled, as I did, at the speed and magical fluency of the Spanish team in making a second-half mockery of all the good things said about the Russians. You need only read what follows to see that Pete was rather looking forward to a Russia v Germany final, but the defeat did nothing […]
Soapbox: Euros giving value for money
Even if you did not read my Club v Country: an easy home win chapter in the ALS book More 24 Hour SAFC People, you probably know that Salut! Sunderland is rarely found devoting too much space to football at international level. Since I am currently based in Abu Dhabi, I care more about the […]
Soapbox: looking at the Euros
Salut! Sunderland, during Euro 2008, has been a bit like the Circular, the No 5 United bus that used to – still? – slog all over Shildon on a roundabout route towards Bishop: you wait for ages for one, then two come at the same time. With the football focus switching to internationals, it has […]
Soapbox: season 2007-08 (2)..and the negatives
If you were up and about early, you may have seen Salut! Sunderland as a work in progress as I edited Pete Sixsmith’s new Soapbox offering live Scroll down and, if your eyesight is good and your mouse control true, you’ll see that in an article for the Irish Mail on Sunday, published the day […]
Soapbox: season 2007-08 (1)..the positive side.
Most of us know the story of the curate’s egg*. Eager not to offend after being invited to breakfast by the bishop and served a bad egg, he insisted that that it was good in parts. That’s roughly as Pete Sixsmith found the season just ended. Keano and the Lads should perhaps not get too […]
Soapbox: it’s those end of season blues
London has only just voted in its new mayor, and already there is a broken promise. Pete Sixsmith‘s not Boris’s. Having vowed to boycott the capital if it voted for the white-haired one, famously described as “neither as nice nor as stupid as he seems”, Sixer is already making plans for a return to Craven […]
Soapbox: the glories of the English countryside
Enjoy Pete Sixsmith‘s description of England’s pastoral pleasures. But be warned. The squeamish are NOT recommended to read on and see what he made of the football at the end of this idyllic odyssey in the spring sunshine…. It’s May, there is no pressure on us after last week, the game kicks off at 5.15 […]
Soapbox: the view from the directors’ box
We promised something special from the Boro match, and here it is. Pete Sixsmith was plucked from his East Stand perch and installed in grander environs. There he rubbed shoulders with Sir Bobby Robson, Steve McLaren, Niall Quinn et al, had a privileged seat for a pulsating game, somehow avoided heart failure in the excitement […]
Soapbox: wrong, wrong, wrong
Pete Sixsmith tells it how it is. It is not pretty, but it is heartfelt. And it needed saying It wasn’t until nine o’clock on Sunday night that I was fully able to articulate my feelings about that afternoon’s disaster. I had kept my head in post match analysis with a friend who has greater […]
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Rotherham: where better to celebrate Sunderland’s promotion?
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An evening with Nyron and helping hands for a Sunderland school and the fans’ museum
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From MK Dons to Rochdale via Oxford, Peterborough and Portsmouth: it’s a short financial ramble
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Rotherham: where better to celebrate Sunderland’s promotion?
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Lasses cannot play football. Will the Women’s World Cup finally bury this falsehood?
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An evening with Nyron and helping hands for a Sunderland school and the fans’ museum
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Rotherham: where better to celebrate Sunderland’s promotion?
This time last year, we were wondering whether a May weekend in Southend would be our promotion party. We know […]