That slice of hopeful humanity known as Sunderland supporters will once again demonstrate monumental patience on Wednesday and troop through the Stadium of Light turnstiles to see what the Lads can muster versus Liverpool.
Perhaps some of us are too hard on them. They are professionals, broadly doing their jobs to the best of their abilities, individually and collectively.
Malcolm Dawson writes….traditionally Boxing Day was when wealthy folks distributed alms to the poor and needy of the parish, but …
Pete Sixsmith‘s opinions are much in demand. Once again “The Observer” approached him for a half term report which he …
John McCormick writes…. It’s only a couple of years ago that I was at the SOL to watch us gain …
John McCormick writes…When I saw the lineup, without Kaboul and Cattermole, I thought, “that’s it, we’re f*****”. Then I saw Don Vito instead of long Pants and thought, “What’s going on?” And then I saw Danny Graham and seven words drifted across my brain – “Graham not Defoe? Sam’s having a laugh.” But the first half was no laughing matter.
Whatever tomorrow at the Etihad or the new year hold in store, Salut! Sunderland extends seasonal best wishes to all.
If you have decided to put a visit here before listening to the Queen’s Speech or waiting for the umpteenth repeat of Morecambe and Wise, you’ll be expecting to see something new. Oops: we do repeats, too.
So use the Comments section to say whatever you want subject to the usual bounds of legality and decency and take a look, if you wish, at the delights we’ve served up for you this week:
Only a few hours to go to Christmas, just over a week of 2015 left and we’re all in festive spirits. Aren’t we? Pete Sixsmith swears he heard someone say the beatings will continue until morale improves. But he’ll be there again on Saturday, and next Wednesday night and the Saturday after, clinging to the hope we cannot stand. For now, it seems fitting that a man who keeps the kiddies happy each year as Father Christmas should offer a seasonal contribution to the older Lads and Lasses who frequent these pages…
David Mooney, one of Monsieur Salut’s confrères at ESPN FC and also in the day job (news editor of news editor at Imagine FM), is a lifelong Manchster City fan. He is a published author on City and the creator of the Blue Moon Podcast. Fittingly, after we saw that sensational strike at the Emirates the other night, not to mention the other one against us at Wembley, he names Yaya Touré as the finest player he has seen in sky blue. He likes the success Abu Dhabi gold has brought his club, misses Maine Road a bit, likes Sunderland well enough whe we’re not winning 1-0 and thinks we may just about escape under Big Sam …
Others have hauled me over the coals and I now accept I was probably too kind, as supersub for Pete Sixsmith’s Sixer’s Sevens, in stressing the late efforts to salvage a point at Chelsea.
My seven-worder, “Fought like tigers. Undone by woeful start”, was intended to convey both a spot of praise for the way we played in the last half hour at Stamford Bridge and exasperation at how badly we’d begun the game.
SALUT! SUNDERLAND wishes all readers, contributors, sponsors and advertisers a merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year. Thank you for your support …
It is difficult to raise enough enthusiasm for something so trite as Guess the Score in a game most of us expect to lose and perhaps lose heavily.
But let’s try to keep the faith. There’s not much more Hope to be Unable to Stand and we’re all feeling pretty gloomy about our prospects, five points away from a position of safety already and a gap that seems certain to grow.