Sunderland Afc Fan's News

Salut! Sunderland's week: stuffing Stoke, cheering up Reidy, facing Norwich

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Salut! Sunderland: old place, new place

TO CATCH UP WITH THE NEW-LOOK SALUT! SUNDERLAND, PLEASE CLICK ANYWHERE ON THIS SENTENCE ... Welcome to Salut! Sunderland. Or rather, welcome to where Salut! Sunderland used to be. The site has been redesigned and can now be found at http://www.salutsunderland.com. No further postings will appear here. I will be disabling the Comments field so that anything you [...]
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New look for Sunderland, new look for Salut!

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Wolves Soapbox: O'Neill will be under no illusions

The world saw Pete Sixsmith shaking his head in disbelief, or rather all too familiar belief, at Molineux. If you thought that made for dodgy television, wait until you read what Pete makes of having been present at the chilling reality of one more Sunderland collapse ... Martin O’Neill started to follow Sunderland at [...]
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MON day: a fine start?

M Salut offers some advice to Martin O'Neill on the fines he may wish to consider imposing after yesterday's defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory at Molineux ... The competition - click here - to come up with a new name for Martin O'Neill column at Salut! Sunderland is still open. OK, the new manager does not yet know he's to [...]
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Black's Bluster on dismal Wolves surrender: the 'pivotal moment'

Call it stating the bleeding obvious if you will. Eric Black sends his first and last post-match SAFC e-mail ... Dear Colin, I thought we deserved to take the lead, but the penalty changed things. I don’t want to take anything away from Seb [Larsson], though, as he has been fantastic for us. The penalty was the pivotal [...]
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Sixer's Sevens: short, sharp matchday verdicts

This is the full list of seven-word verdicts on each Sunderland game by Pete Sixsmith, Salut! Sunderland's peerless chronicler and sage. They appear as soon after each final whistle as we can manage (which sometimes may not be as soon as we'd like), and should be seen here and at a posting updated after the [...]
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Sixer's Sevens: Wolves 2 SAFC 1 - O'Neill's reality check

This is where Pete Sixsmith captures the glory and shame, hope and despair, excitement and ennui of the Sunderland matchday experience. When, rarely, Pete is absent or delayed, a supersub does it for him and the seven-word verdict is preceded by an asterisk. Pete's full analysis of the game will usually appear within [...]
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Bruce's Banter silenced, let's hear it for O'Neill On Us

On any reckoning, and despite the falling out with Randy Lerner that seems to have prompted his resignation from Villa, it is a highly impressive managerial record. Salut! Sunderland cared relatively little about the Geordie background of Steve Bruce but judged him on what he did well - his 10th top finish last season deserved recognition [...]
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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. In [...]
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