All Jake’s latest fine work – including a brand new logo for this corner of the site – looked like being in vain until I found a temporary solution to my IT problems. Thanks for bearing with me …
Yes, it is guess the score time again. Usual rules apply but win a book or a Salut! Sunderland mug – suitably modified if you happen to be a Tottenham Hotspur supporter – if you are the first to predict the correct score, using the Comment field below.
On Our Way To Wembley. In 1909 and then again in 1911, an amateur football team team, comprised mainly of …
Pete Sixsmith set out his stall with his ‘sorry guys, you’re being a bit harsh on Kyrgiakos’ message after Man City. Here, he reinforces his cry for rather more fairness and a greater sense of proportion …
Monsieur Salut’s Mac has just crashed, a long way from anywhere he can enforce the guarantee. Luckily he’d already found Tom Langton*, deep in Spain, to answer the Surs “Who are You?” questions. Tom runs the bar at his father Mark’s hotel and activity centre – get this: “the Sierra Espuna is a beautiful nature reserve in Southern Spain and probably the healthiest part of Europe”. Maybe our own Jake should book there to get over the trauma of new fatherhood. Exiled Spurs fans looking for a branch of the supporters’ club note: Mark’s your man in Spain. But he insists his son – who predicts a Spurs but a storming Sunderland finish – is the biggest Tottenham fan he knows …
Is he coming back, staying there or on his way somewhere else entirely? The Gyan plot thickens …
(‘The stripes help’: Image by Yellow Book)
Which football teams you have a soft spot for, and which you would cheerfully consign to oblivion, is not driven by rocket science. It could be as simple as a long remembered favour or slight. Ask John McCormick*: he should know …
Nearly the double but not quite. If Tuesday’s FA Cup exit was a disappointment for the worst of reasons, then this was one for the best. It’s never satisfactory to see a two goal cushion go in the blinking of an eye, but at least Pete Sixsmith witnessed it, unlike the Man City fans who have learned nothing from the play off final against Gillingham in 1999. In a week where partnerships have been the subject of discussion on the site it was a Scandinavian duo that almost brought home the processed pig meat …
After Tuesday’s disappointment, today’s response against a side that hadn’t dropped a home point all season, has Martin O’Neill singing the praises of his team. Whilst ultimately this may be viewed as two points dropped, rather than one won, once again we have seen the manager’s ability to use the available players to achieve a positive result. To the rest of the world who expected the lads in red and white to be on the wrong end of a battering today, the manager’s words reflect his aspirations and send out a message to the rest of the Premier League.
A magnificent performance left Sunderland feeling that a draw at the Etihad stadium, where no team had won or – until today – drawn in the Premier League this season, amounted to two cruelly lost points.
Finished 3-3: this report now supersed by https://safc.blog/2012/03/sixers-sevens-manchester-city-3-safc-3-and-it-feels-like-losing/
We have not won at Man City since 1998, when Kevin Phillips scored the only goal at Maine Road. We managed to score twice in the first half in the grander surrounds of the Etihad today.