If Pete Sixmsith, present on May 5 1973 and present on Jan 4 2015, doubted he would experience the same level of excitement, his pessimism was well-founded. Roles are reversed these days; it is not that Sunderland are as mighty as Leeds undoubtedly were back then, but we are almost a full division ahead. And yet the only side that looked liked scoring in the second half was Leeds. Just as well Patrick van Aanholt had returned from injury with a fine first-half attacking display rewarded with the excellent strike that won the game (on 33 minutes, two later than it took Ian Porterfield in 1973). Sixer’s considered report can be expect to dwell at length on the failings shown subsequently, with Leeds unlucky not to gain at least a replay ..
Jan 4 2015 FA Cup 3rd Round: SAFC (1) 1 Leeds United (0) 0 Scraped through after a shocking second half Jake: ‘through, but only just’
Jan 1 2015 Manchester City (0) 3 SAFC (0) 2 Opened up too easily for the winner
Dec 28 Aston Villa (0) 0 SAFC (0) *Just couldn’t break down 10 man Villa
Dec 26 SAFC (1) 1 Hull City (1) 3 A good Christmas spoiled by 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
Dec 6 Liverpool (0) 0 SAFC (0) 0 Ho ho ho: a well deserved point
Dec 3 SAFC (1) 1 Manchester City (2) 4 City’s hoodoo ended, aided by poor defending
Nov 29 SAFC (0) 0 Chelsea (0) 0*A performance to make Sunderland supporters proud or Could and maybe should have won it
Nov 22 Leicester City (0) 0 SAFC (0) 0 Two points lost rather than one gained
Nov 9 SAFC (0) 1 Everton (0) 1 A good point against a good side
Nov 3 Crystal Palace (0) 1 SAFC (1) 3*Sometimes a win is all that matters
Oct 25 SAFC (0) 0 Arsenal (1) 2 *Farcical errors lead to further foot shooting
Oct 18 Southampton (3) 8 SAFC (0) 0Total humiliation today. Players should be ashamed
Oct 4 SAFC (2) 3 Stoke City (1) 1 Duck broken but still some hairy moments
Sept 27 SAFC (0) 0 Swansea City (0) 0 Better performance but cannot finish teams off
Sept 23 Capital One Cup 3rd Round: SAFC (1) 1 Stoke City (1) 2 No Wembley date this March. Wasted evening
Sept 20 Burnley 0 (0) SAFC 0 (0) A thoroughly disappointing performance. Early optimism evaporating
Sept 13 SAFC (1) 2 Tottenham Hotspur (1) 2 Not quite sure how we managed that>
5 thoughts on “Sixer’s Sevens: Sunderland 1 Leeds United 0. A feeble echo of ’73”
Don’t apologise Malcolm. I only hope Mr Short is listening.
With QPR, Palace, Burnley, Leicester, Villa, West Brom and The Mags to come to the Stadium of Light (and Liverpool and Southampton) you’d think we’d be OK for 18+ points from those games but as we only won 4 League games in total at home in 2014 we can’t be that confident. We’ll be OK if we play positive football, look to go forward and use the width of the pitch. We don’t half need a goalscorer though – sorry for stating the bleedin’ obvious.
They should have had a penalty and they hit the post and they forced saves out of Pantilimon. I thought we were absolutely dreadful in the second half. I am very concerned about the second half of the season.
Leeds the only team that looked like scoring? Is that apart from the 2 glorious chances missed by Fletcher and whickham’s free header from Larsson’s corner that he put straight at the keeper. Yes, we were poor second half, but let’s not pretend Leeds were that good!
Don’t apologise Malcolm. I only hope Mr Short is listening.
With QPR, Palace, Burnley, Leicester, Villa, West Brom and The Mags to come to the Stadium of Light (and Liverpool and Southampton) you’d think we’d be OK for 18+ points from those games but as we only won 4 League games in total at home in 2014 we can’t be that confident. We’ll be OK if we play positive football, look to go forward and use the width of the pitch. We don’t half need a goalscorer though – sorry for stating the bleedin’ obvious.
They should have had a penalty and they hit the post and they forced saves out of Pantilimon. I thought we were absolutely dreadful in the second half. I am very concerned about the second half of the season.
Leeds the only team that looked like scoring? Is that apart from the 2 glorious chances missed by Fletcher and whickham’s free header from Larsson’s corner that he put straight at the keeper. Yes, we were poor second half, but let’s not pretend Leeds were that good!
At least we are in the hat.