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.
Year: 2012
Sixer’s Sevens at half time: Wigan Athletic 0 SAFC 1
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.
Asamoah Gyan and the view from the Gulf: ‘fit, fast, exceptional ability’
Tonight brings another massive game for Sunderland AFC because of the importance of building on all the good work of Sunday – and the need to counteract the impact of last night’s results, which pushed us two places down the Premier table.
The Man City Soapbox: beating the big boys
Better late than never, Pete Sixsmith weighs in with his thoughts on a momentous day …
The East Stand went mad. The West Stand, containing new season card holders Mr and Mrs Horan, went mad. The Directors’ Box must have gone mad. One man went so mad that he attempted to French kiss Ji Dong Wan.
The Wigan v Sunderland ‘Who are You?’: the Premier’s Chumbawamba team
After the excitement and exhilaration of beating the title favourites, a different kind of game altogether awaits Sunderland tomorrow night. Wigan away comes close on the heels of Wigan at home, which finally did for Steve Bruce in the sense that whatever was in the Sunderland owner’s mind by then, he could hardly have fired him if he’d led us to a 5-0 victory.
Rob Speakman*, a moderator at the Latics site This Northern Soul and a man with a Reg Vardy Sunderland top, is one of those unforgiving Wigan supporters who take pleasure in Bruce’s downfall …
Crazy Korean commentary as Ji Dong-won sinks Man City
Maggie your boys took one hell of a beating and all that. This is for connoisseurs of extravagant football commentary … and this brilliantly edited version, which cannot be embedded, is even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3iQbKNGZis
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Fear to ecstasy, hung jury on Bendtner, shame on Citeh fans
It is the sports editor’s nightmare: you send your best reporter to a contender for match of the season.
It turns out to be an astonishing day packed with drama and emotion. You prepare to clear the front page for his lucid prose. And then he lamely cries off, citing “what looks like a serious computer problem”.
The Fawcett Saga: Hogmanay goes pear–shaped for Fergie and Mancini
Hilary Fawcett has proclaimed her admiration of Sir Alex Ferguson, whose many achievements include making everyone at Salut! Sunderland feel impossibly young. That doesn’t stop her taking a bit of pleasure, even before we saw off Mancini City, in the ruination of his 70th birthday party …
Martin’s Musings on beating Man City: ‘fantastic, overwhelming, brilliant, sensational’
This is a day every Sunderland supporter will savour for a long time. Martin O’Neill was forced by injuries and …