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Who Are You? May 17, 2012

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 ‘Who are You?’ awards … Here it is, the moment at least some of you have been waiting for. Thanks to all who took part in the feature during the 2011-2012 season, the judges who [...]

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 rewards supporters of opposing sides who offered the best entertainment, insight or wisdom in their responses to the pre-match questionnaire, ended with the leaders lining up like this: Stuart Jinks (aka Jinksy, Aston Villa fan) [...]

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 part in our ”Who are You?” series. And once a year, we return the favour and come up with awards for the best sets of replies.

QPR v SAFC Who are You?: ‘pay divas and divers less’

If you judged QPR by the price on the away ticket – £45, with scant concession for pensioners, for deeply unsatisfactory accommodation in a barely Championship-standard ground – you’d consign all concerned with the club to the neighbouring guest house of Wormwood Scrubs. Luckily, some of the supporters are fine and pleasant folk, as we [...]

Spurs v SAFC Who are You?: ‘top four beats staying above Arsenal’

No shortage of self-confidence on the Tottenham Hotspur front. Too big a club for Darren Bent and Martin O’Neill, home bankers versus us on Sunday and heading for a third top finish at least two places ahead of Arsenal. That’s as seen by Jamie Currie*, the man behind White Hart Pain site and a regular [...]

Blackburn ‘Who are You?’: the wild rover not wild about Newcastle

Mike Delap*, editor of The Wild Blackburn Rover fansite and a Geordie’s son with curiously little time for Newcastle United, is pessimistic about his team’s immediate prospects under the current manager Steve Kean. But he loyally predicts an away win to spoil Martin O’Neill’s day …

Wolves ‘Who are You?’: (2) football’s longest-suffering fan?

Image: Danny Molineux While we await news that Martin O’Neill is indeed our new manager, get this: Steve Bishop*, founder of the Cannock branch of the Wolverhampton Wanderers Supporters’ Club, has not missed a game for 35 years. Every gloryseeker in the land should stand back and salute, or pity, his astonishing loyalty and stamina. [...]

Wolves v SAFC: (1) McCarthy Out too, says voice of youth

The season before last, Salut! Sunderland dedicated a “Who are You?” feature for one of the games against Wolves to David Graves, a great friend and colleague of M Salut’s who died in a diving accident in 2002. Today, in the first of two Wolves “Who are You?”s, David’s sons Oliver and Nathan* – who [...]

The Wigan ‘Who are You?’: (2) better off with Martinez than Bruce

Yesterday, a lot of readers came this way to read a tremendously moving article by our old friend and Wigan Athletic stalwart Bernard Ramsdale on the struggles he and his wife have made, ably backed by an army of professional and lay supporters, to give quality of life to their brain-damaged son. Somehow it seems [...]

Sunderland v Wigan ‘Who are You?’: (1) when life means more

Many Salut! Sunderland readers will know that Bernard Ramsdale is not only a staunch fan of Wigan Athletic and co-creator of This Northern Soul, an amalgamation of four Latics fan sites. He is also a great friend of this site. Fewer will know of his family tragedy – the devastating injuries suffered by his son [...]