John McCormick writes: It being almost half-term and Keir providing numbers, I thought I’d sum things up in a succinct …
Malcolm Dawson writes….Gus Poyet has been commenting on how ludicrous the holiday fixture list is with games coming thick and …
Malcolm Dawson writes…..I called into the Wetherspoons in Houghton to give mine and M Salut’s regards to Hull City fans …
Anyway – here was Pete’s post match reaction as texted to me when the full time whistle went.
Dec 26 SAFC (1) 1 Hull City (1) 3 A good Christmas spoiled by an awful performance.
Dec 21 NUFC (0) 0 SAFC (0) 1 Four in a row brings Christmas cheer
Dec 13 SAFC (1) 1 West Ham United (1) 1 One point better than none. Tight game
John McCormick writes: I was optimistic about this game until I read a facebook post from my niece saying that …
This appeared at Salut!, reproduced from something Monsieur Salut wrote for The National, Abu Dhabi, and seems to fit here, too. There’s even a small Aston Villa link …
Malcolm Dawson writes……less than a week ago, a somewhat panicking M Salut contacted me to say that he had failed …
Colin Randall writes (OK, some would say that’s an exaggeration):
Salut! Sunderland had modest beginnings in the New Year of 2007, as an offshoot of Salut!, a post-redundo blog that continued – and maybe even improved – my online work as one of The Daily Telegraph‘s pioneering bloggers, in my case from Paris.
Salut! aimed then, as it does now, to talk about “France, current affairs, travel, the media – and more besides” and you can see how well or badly it fares in meeting that self-imposed challenge at http://francesalut.com.
Salut! Sunderland, like my folk music site Salut! Live, had narrower targets. It was intended as a whimsical site by and for lovers of Sunderland AFC. It had no pretensions about being the new ALS or Ready to Go and that is just as well as both are rightly established at the core of the club’s support.
This is a Ha’way the Lads Christmas greeting to the Lads, winners in dramatic fashion at St James’ Park on Sunday, and a hearty “get well soon” to one of this site’s friends, Raich Carter Junior.
As most readers of Salut! Sunderland will know, the Who are You? series first-place award was won last season by one Raich, son of the genius of the same name who was born in Sunderland, brilliantly represented his town football club (city status was a long way off in those days) and went on to play for and manage Hull City.
Christmas being special, it seemed right to find a special Who are You? for the Boxing Day game at home …