Sixer’s West Brom Soapbox: well at least we didn’t lose
Malcolm Dawson writes….. “you must be pretty confident today” I said to the West Brom father and son combo as …
Pure Poyetry Sunderland 0 West Brom 0: Gus happy with the players’ response
Hutch’s Patch: one-word verdicts on Sunderland after failure to break down West Bromwich Albion
Things are going from bad to verse. Rob Hutchison resorts to poetry before awarding his one-word verdicts …
Another game, another draw.
Why on earth, just can’t we score ?
We are so weak in front of goal.
We’re almost in a great big hole.
Sixer’s Sevens: Sunderland 0 West Brom 0. The word mediocre just fits so nicely
John McCormick writes: I had this one pencilled in but circumstances have conspired to keep me here. Did I miss much? Pete Sixsmith will let me know in due course with a full match report. In the meantime, just after the final whistle he sends his seven words, no more, no less, to give us a taste of what’s to come:
Gus sends us all a letter, and there hasn’t been a game.
John McCormick writes: There have been quite a few posts forecasting doom on this site recently, and some quite critical comments relating to our manager. It’s not just his team selection, strategy and tactics which have been questioned but also his communication, with the press, the fans, maybe the players. In particular, his post match comments and e-mails have led to raised eyebrows, and now we have an open letter to the fans.
What are we to make of this? I’m not the best placed to comment.
Hayley Mulls: me and ‘Cannonball Charlie’
Hayley Penman is 10, a lot younger than most of the people around here, but she is not entirely new to Salut! Sunderland, and she is a Sunderland fan, a regular at the SoL. Her contributions are always welcome – and Monsieur Salut owes an apology for the whimsical category title of Hayley Mulls (her next project is to come up with a better one). Here, she discovers a close-to-home link with a Sunderland hero who died long before she was born: ‘Cannonball’ Charlie Fleming …
Sunderland vs West Bromwich Albion: save our Sixer
How many times over recent seasons have we talked about a forthcoming game as one that defines the season?
It has been often, and always because Sunderland have been in dire trouble or on the edge of it. So the matches in question have tended to be at home, either clear six-pointers or against teams we just have to beat to get points on the board before tougher tests ahead.
WBA on Saturday is another such tie. Losing it will not send us down, just make it seem less likely that we will once again drag ourselves clear of the mire. No one should rely on sensational displays of the kind we saw last season at Manchester United (next game up after the Baggies) and Chelsea. Winning would not necessarily keep us up.
West Bromwich Albion ‘Who are You?’: hoofball, Ideye Brown, Sess and Sunderland sausages
Kev Candon is a salt-of-the-earth supporter who has overcome disability to follow his club, West Brom, as loyally as most Baggies. He chairs the WBA Disabled Supporters’ Club but makes light of his own handicap to the extent of calling a book he wrote with two pals Five and a Half Legs Go Nationwide.
You thought football had left the neanderthal age? See these Chelsea fans …
NB: what you see above is just an impression of the clip: since The Guardian has chosen to block access via YouTube to footage it should want the world to see, I will use the BBC link suggested by Phil in the comment below. See it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31515624
The bad news is that this happened in 2015. Long after we fondly supposed such low-life primitives had found other outlets for their vile prejudice, a group of English “supporters” are caught on film preventing a black man from boarding a Metro train in Paris before the Chelsea game at PSG. They chant “we’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it”.
Still seeking Justice for Jeff as West Bromwich Albion visit Sunderland
Every so often, a noble cause brings opposing sets of supporters together and Saturday’s game against WBA offers a chance for one such display of solidarity. This is a slightly updated version of the posting contributed by Salut! Sunderland’s deputy editor Malcolm Dawson and which, we are pleased to report, has been seen by Jeff Astle’s family …
When I was a kid I watched the FA Cup Final on TV religiously. It was virtually the only live televised football available to those of us growing up in the fifties and sixties.