Salut! Sunderland has made no formal count, but reckons most – certainly many – Sunderland fans agree Robert Huth was unlucky to be sent off for his challenge on David Meyler.
Soapbox at Stoke: Pulis enraged, fails to engage brain
Pete Sixsmith slogged back from Stoke, happiness at the well-won points a little offset by the rigours of seven hours on the road to get home. He reckons it was just after midnight, his text suggested just before; either way, it was beyond the call of duty or even love and his exemplary matchday assessment – a posting that would normally be held until Monday – deserves to go up immediately …
Did Meyler dive? Is Huth a saintly Stoke figure? Is Pulis serious?
Martin O’Neill said, ahead of viewing replays, he thought it a nasty challenge. David Meyler has ample reason, after suffering serious injuries, to be anxious to avoid another.
From Stoke to Sunderland, Burnley to Peterborough, here’s to the travelling fans
Martin O’Neill said it:
It’s delightful to get the three points on the board as they are very important to us and it’s a great win for all of the fans who travelled down to watch us play.
We have given them something to cheer about on the way home.
Martin’s Musings on winning at Stoke: there’s snow stopping us
Awful day, not a wonderful match but Martin O’Neill was rightly happy to see his team adapt better to the conditions and come away with three more invaluable points (see also Sixer’s Sevens) …
Sixer’s Sevens: Stoke 0 SAFC 1 – McClean’s winter warmer
This is where Pete Sixsmith captures the glory and shame, hope and despair, excitement and ennui of the Sunderland matchday experience. When, rarely, Pete is absent or delayed, a supersub does it for him and the seven-word verdict is preceded by an asterisk. Pete’s full analysis of the game will usually appear within a day or two.
In dire conditions in a game allowed to go ahead after a late pitch inspection, James McClean fired home a winner to maintain the astonishing momentum we have achieved with what Martin O’Neill gets out of Steve Bruce’s players. Two successive homes victories against Arsenal and not just one would be just what we need to keep it going, Lads, so do the business at the Riverside.
Salut! Sunderland’s Week: Boro, Norwich and Stoke in seven days
… in which another week is reviewed for the reader who is too engrossed in work, study or play, or too forgetful, to visit Salut! Sunderland every single day …
Stoke v SAFC Who are You?: Deano’s ‘our low-skill, non-scoring star’
Chris Jones*, an administrator on three Stoke City fan sites, is Welsh and could talk for Wales on All Things City. Having kindly agreed to step into the “Who are You?” hot seat, he did so, spilling beans by the lorryload on Stoke’s Sunderland old boys – a mixed report, but check out his amazing view of Dean Whitehead – and Tony Pulis, also offering an unfashionably chilly view of Martin O’Neill and news of a Welsh-speaking Mackem …
Soapbox: no problems knocking Norwich over, bring on Stoke
Pete Sixsmith is a happy man. It is not always like this after football, but he saw so much to warm the soul last night that he even feels optimistic about facing up to the (alleged) Britannia Bruisers …
Forget Man City and United: guess who is really top of the league
Click on the image of the Premier League table, or scroll down, for a better look and you’ll see what I mean.