Pete Sixsmith was travelling home so there seemed good cause for posting a few thoughts, ahead of his matchday analysis, on the five-goal thriller that maintained Martin O’Neill’s heartening start …
Year: 2011
Martin’s Musings from QPR: ‘character, performance and a nice trip home’
Martin O’Neill was doubtless as furious as the away fans when the two-goal lead was sacrificed in the only spell of the game when Sunderland were not dominant. Luckily, it lasted only 10 minutes and he ended up applauding a deserved second victory in three games in charge, while we could all laugh at Neil Warnock’s absurd claim that QPR were the better side …
Sixer’s Sevens: QPR 2 SAFC 3 – through the hoops
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 a day or two.
The full Sixer’s Sevens archive – see link below – sums up what all Sunderland supporters feel, from darkest gloom to sublime elation, in the words one who is usually there …
Dec 21 2011
Queens Park Rangers (0) 2 SAFC (1) 3 Deserved to win despite mad ten minutes
Dec 18 2011 Tottenham Hotspur (0) 1 SAFC (0) 0 One sloppy pass undoes a solid performance
Dec 11 2011 SAFC (0) 2 Blackburn Rovers (1) 1 Sheer perseverance gives MON vital winning start
Dec 4 2011 Wolverhampton Wanderers (0) 2 SAFC (0) 1 More points sacrificed through weak, sloppy defending
Lock up the kids, tell Bruce, Bent and Bendtner to hide. Santa’s here
… in which Bill Taylor assumes the unlikely guise of Papa Noël/Father Christmas/Daidaín na Nollaig/Ded Moroz/Saint Nicholas/Weihnachtsmann and hands out some presents to deserving characters …
Basil Fawlty’s Waldorf salad, Darren Bent’s truancy – and apologies by the score
Who can fault the New Man who avoids football and goes Christmas shopping instead? Surely Darren Bent’s love for, and commitment to, Aston Villa are not already in doubt. Wasn’t he always true to us? Pete Sixsmith reflects …
Sunderland Observed: the midterm report
The Observer had an excellent feature on the football pages, copied by others, in which one supporter of each club in each game gave his or her own assessment and out-of-10 ratings. Pete Sixsmith was a regular
for our games. The feature is no more – more fool The Observer – but Pete was asked for his midterm assessment (NB ahead of the Spurs game) …
Who are we, who are our rivals? QPR ask the questions
Salut! Sunderland is always happy to help out when other clubs’ fan sites come calling. Russell Wilson, who is part of the team at the QPR Report Blog, posed a few questions ahead of tomorrow’s game. Pete Sixsmith is better at these things but Monsieur Salut did the honours for once …
Our man at West Ham isn’t coming back: Christmas here early
When we first had George McCartney, I liked him. A long way short of perfection, but good going forward and …
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 …
The White Hart Lane Soapbox: couldn’t quite scupper ‘Arry’s Spurs
Pete Sixsmith salutes a reasonable if losing performance at Spurs (though M Salut thinks he was unduly impressed by O’Shea), but then admits he has been looking at the fixtures. It gave him a nasty bout of nerves for Sunderland’s immediate future …