Jake: ‘that wasn’t in the script’ Play this and read on!LA = Lancashire – Accrington Malcolm Dawson writes…….there was a gathering of the clans in Accrington on Saturday. A veritable Salut! Sunderland fest before kick off. Fawlty Towers anyone? At this time of year Pete Sixsmith is otherwise engaged bringing joy to the young of […]
Wrinkly Pete: accept the situation Sunderland fans and get behind your team

Malcolm Dawson writes…………Our mutual friend, Peter Lynn aka Wrinkly Pete, despite living in the West Midlands is still a regular at the bleak house we know as The Stadium of Light, still keeps the faith but calls upon the fans of Sunderland AFC to accept their fate and get behind the team during these hard […]
Wrinkly Pete’s Crystal Ball: Middlesbrough suddenly make the screen look clearer

So has our Wrinkly one, who also answers to Peter Lynn, finally seen the light staring back at him from his imaginary crystal ball?. We regret to say he has. Scroll down for the updated predictions and his thoughts on a grand evening out to Middlesbrough. Well, the company was good, not to mention fish […]
Kate Bush says ‘Don’t give up’, and so does Wrinkly Pete

John McCormick writes: So you think it’s bad, do you? In this post Wrinkly Pete opens with a reminder of a time when the mortgage interest rate was just about dropping into single figures after peaking at 15%+, Sunderland were struggling in the bottom half of the second division and averaging gates of under 20,000, and down […]
Wrinkly Pete: Nice legs, shame about the football.

John McCormick writes: Pete Lynn, aka Wrinkly Pete, is no stranger to this website. Nor is he a stranger to the Stadium of Light, despite having to make a considerable effort to get there. But make the effort he does, and sometimes the journey, if not the result, makes him wax lyrical. Here he is explaining in […]
Wrinkly Pete’s SOS: the post-palace pennyworth

When Peter Lynn, young-at-heart but prematurely aged physically by watching Sunderland, began his exercise in calculating how the rest of the season would go, he concluded that 37 points would be enough for survival – and that we’d get them. After enduring the atrocious displays at home to Stoke and then at West Brom, even forgetting […]
Wrinkly Pete’s Crystal Ball: ‘don’t panic, it’s only Tottenham next’

I’m sending out an SOS, ‘cos I’m in so much distress When Peter Lynn, young-at-heart but prematurely aged physically by watching Sunderland, began his exercise in calculating how the rest of the season would go, he concluded that 37 points would be enough for survival […]
Wrinkly Pete’s Crystal Ball: on course for survival, oddly enough, despite Stoke

Before the Stoke game, “Wrinkly Pete” Lynn calculated the points Sunderland might pick up from the rest of the season and concluded, perhaps generously, that we would snatch survival once again – even if we lost to Stoke, which we duly did and in style (what kind of style would require the sort of […]
Pop goes Wrinkly Pete again, charting SAFC’s escape even without beating Stoke

Peter Lynn dips back into his collection of dodgy old hits for inspiration as he does some back-of-envelope calculations on what David Moyes needs from the second half of the season if Sunderland are yet again to avoid the drop. He even allows for the unthinkable, losing at home to Stoke on Saturday , as […]
The Things We Do For Love of Sunderland. And the winner is …

The Things We Do For Love competition attracted some excellent entries, some great memories. Choosing a winner of the above print of Roker Park – with mighty thanks to our generous sponsors http://www.wearedorothy.com – was tough. Check out the earlier mentions of the competition here and, when Pete Sixsmith’s reminiscences on Sunderland in the European […]
The end of an era. Salut! Sunderland’s journey will soon be over
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