Asking the scary question: Can Sunderland avoid relegation this season?

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John McCormick writes: While Sam’s working hard to get the site finished Malcolm and I are beavering behind the scenes to repost some pieces which went missing. You can expect to see our Who are you and Guess the score shortly, if they aren’t up already, and here is the piece by our guest writer, Ryan James, who asks the question that’s surely on everyone’s mind. I haven’t been able to recover or repost anyone’s comments, however, so feel free to resume the discussion where you left off…

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Sixer’s Sevens: Manchester United 3 SAFC 0. Inadequate defending = no points

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Jake: catch Sixer's instant seven-word verdicts throughout the season
Jake: catch Sixer’s instant seven-word verdicts throughout the season at https://safc.blog/category/sixers-sevens/sixers-sevens-2015-2016/

Monsieur Salut writes: please once again accept apologies for the dismal look of Salut! Sunderland. Our web guru is doing what he can to restore the site to normal after yesterday’s complete breakdown and we are pretty much in his hands. Pete Sixsmith doesn’t worry himself too much with technical matters, except in assessing SAFC’s glaring technical deficiencies. He thought we did OK in the first half until a slick United move cut us open and gave them a HT lead. A second goal 40 seconds into the second half ended the match as a contest and the third was no surprise. Catts did OK but Jake’s caption spots the obvious missing link ..

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Salut! Sunderland emergency edition: time for our apologies

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telegraph bombing page

Unlike the Tele/Torygraph when the IRA attacked Canary Wharf in 1992, Salut! Sunderland has no headquarters to bomb. It is the product of blokes who support Sunderland but live in true Mackem diaspora fashion in the south of France, on Merseyside and in Spain as well as in the North East.

But the impact of a wretched systems issue is there for all to see if they come to these pages today and remember what they looked liked on Thursday.

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Sunderland’s Old Trafford glories: when Suggett, Mulhall and Seb buried Manchester United

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SALUT! Sunderland is very sorry that the site was unavailable yesterday and that it appears to be making only a gradual return towards normality. The servers said “emergency” maintenance was needed but are notoriously bad at keeping people informed. This posting was therefore wasted yesterday so here it is again …

Beating Manchester United on their own ground is not impossible, even for Sunderland.

Some, like a Netherlands-based reader Paul Devine, remember the last-but-one actual victory at Old Trafford very well.

“Against Best, Law, Bobby, Paddy and the rest, no one gave us an earthly … I was there, transported on a Roberts bus (apostrophe or no apostrophe) from Wingate to Stretford.”That was in this game’s Guess the Score competition and Paul went on to predict the same scoreline for Saturday.

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Manchester United ‘Who are You?’: Posnan, LVG and O’Shea’s exquisite nutmeg and chip

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Jordan Street
Jordan Street

Jordan Street* is just 23, a home-and-away Man United supporter who comes from the city and is as passionate about his club as it’s possible to be. See his blog Old Trafford Faithful or his tweets at http:///www.twitter.com/otfaithful. We’ve often been fortunate with the quality of our Man Utd Who are You?s and Jordan’s is no exception. He likes Sunderland for being northern, thinks we have a decent enough squad but fears Dick Advocaat is not the man to keep us out of trouble. We completely forgot to ask which of our players he wouldn’t mind seeing in United colours but he did try to make us feel better about 1-4 to Citeh by recalling a more humiliating scoreline of United’s own …

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