After another good result, 1-1 at Villa, Sunderland face a huge task: stopping Liverpool exact revenge for the beachball defeat at the Stadium of Light (even though it was their beach ball that deflected Darren Bent’s shot into the goal). Salut! Sunderland put questions to two prominent Reds: * Peter Hooton*, leader singer of the […]
Tag Archives: Liverpool
Wanted: warm, witty or wise Liverpool fan
Salut! Sunderland offers sincere congratulations to Liverpool and Fulham for two superb Europa League results overturning away deficits to beat Lille and Juventus respectively. (more…)
Who are you? We’re Barrow. Who?! You heard, Barrow
Once he’d left football, Vic Halom, a hero of 1973 and therefore a justifiably revered figure at Sunderland, was involved in a company called, if I recall correctly, something like Disaster Solutions or Disaster Management. It was one of those record-breaking bad Premier seasons of ours when I met him before an obligatory pounding at […]
A search for football’s best, most passionate fans
Here is a reminder of the search launched by Sky Sports for the best football fans in the land. There will a league table, placing the fans of all 92 league clubs in order, and prizes are promised. Anyone got the answer? Naturally, we all think that answer is staring them in the face and […]
Liverpool’s great escape – eight years before the Ngog takeoff
Forget Ngog (pictured courtesy of Christoper_tng) who tells me he’s a Liverpool fan), forget the beach ball that saved us from having to score one of the four sitters that followed. When it comes to Liverpool and luck – good or bad, depending on your allegiance – we’ve seen crazier things … Poor Peter Walton […]
Eduardo, Ngog and an everyday saga of Bent penalties
The issue of cheating in football won’t go away. Is it a price worth paying for the cut and thrust of post-match debate? Colin Randall gets stuck in traffic long enough to hear a range of views … If we are honest, most of us love the controversy that football provokes. (more…)
TalkSport, talk rot
Colin Randall takes an old Fleet Street confrère to task for suggesting our win against Liverpool should be cancelled out … Most of the time, I enjoy Mike Parry and TalkSport (can’t bring myself to start the name in lower case and then write the second syllable in upper). This morning, Mike was talking nonsense. […]
Soapbox: the day the balloon went up
Give the lad a break. OK, he shouldn’t have done it. Yes, his rightful place was probably outside offering to “mind” people’s cars. But at a game when much else from Liverpool was nasty and snarling – read on for mention of Carragher but Rafa and Benayoun ought to be ashamed of their vile responses […]
Who are you? We’re Liverpool
Hard on Man Utd, even harder on Liverpool’s owners, Gerry Ormonde* is a man who knows his own mind. A Dubliner with his footballing heart across the Irish Sea on the Mersey, he was quick to agree to preview Sunderland’s return to Premier action against his beloved Liverpool this Saturday. Gerry runs Kopblog.com – part […]
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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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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’
What Steve Bruce can say to Liverpool: LXLWLLXLLXXL
That, in case anyone needs a clue, is our Premier League record since Oct 24. So if Steve Bruce needs more than a simple “get lost” to offer Rafa should reports of a Liverpool bid for loan deal for Kenwyne Jones contain even a hint of truth, that might be a good place to start. […]