
Observant readers of Salut! Sunderland may have spotted my comment this morning, asking this rhetorical question: “Nothing wrong with plagiarism provided it can be passed off as research?”

It starts with back-of-envelope calculations that explain why young supporters are being driven away – or, rather, not being driven away – but Pete Sixsmith then moves smartly on to discussion of tonight’s League Cup game in Milton Keynes, a snipe or two at John Terry and a mighty defence of Mark Halsey’s Anfield performance (probably just as well Pete doesn’t bother much with Twitter) …
It was late in Mick Harford‘s career before he was able to play, as he had always wanted, for Sunderland, …

Pete Sixsmith thought for 81+3 minutes that he might be watching a team that had learned at last how to hang on to or, better still, build on a lead. Alas, old habits returned and the Hammers got their deserved equaliser against a Sunderland defence once again playing – or made to play – far too deep …
It’s beginning to sound like a stuck record and a disappointing school report. “Tried hard but could do better.” Once …
Pete Sixsmith’s long journey resulted in a frustrating trip home. But it could have been so much better. Stephen Fletcher’s fourth goal in three games must surely be silencing those who questioned the size of his fee but once again a lead disappears as the clock ticks down…….
Stephen Goldsmith writes: I was really tempted to pick some obscure and irrelevant fixture in addition to the lads at …

See the West Ham ‘Who are You?’ – https://safc.blog/2012/09/west-ham-v-sunderland-who-are-you/
Pete Sixsmith admits that his attendance at Upton Park tomorrow is perhaps more a case of duty than the pursuit of pleasure. He probably lets that 8-0 defeat in 1968 prey unduly on the mind …
Jake’s way of looking back on a Salut! week
Stephen Goldsmith writes: I was slightly confused when I was asked this morning if I had done the Salut! Sunderland’s week review.The requisition e-mail was always there as it happens, but akin to an opportunity for Titus Bramble to clear the ball sufficiently in the danger area, it must have passed me by. There may be more on Bramble next week in Salut! Reflections, as the gaffer’s (Martin O’Neill, not Colin Randall) newly found confidence in the player is either some sort of delusional utterance or a genius method of motivation. Saturday will begin the judgement of which.

See the West Ham ‘Who are You?’ here: https://safc.blog/2012/09/west-ham-v-sunderland-who-are-you/
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