Bradford City Who are You?: ‘always liked Sunderland because of their fans’

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Nikhil – a big soft spot for SAFC

WHILE SITE IS DOWN, COPY AND — USE THiS LINK TO SEE THE INTERVIEW AT OUR FACEBOOK GROUP:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/salutsunderland/permalink/2116379651754062/

Nikhil Vekaria* put heart and soul in to answering our questions in the Bradford City Who are You? only for the site to crash. We are still working on getting it back into operation – it was impossible even to see yesterday so today’s visibility was an improvement even if you cannot then do anything – read a full article, post a comment – from the home page!

Once we’re back, Nikhil’s thoughts will get their proper airing. His comments on Sunderland are heartwarming …

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Portsmouth vs SAFC prize Guess the Score: our cup final or theirs?

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There IS a prize and for once it’s not a book

Monsieur Salut has a ticket. The ongoing bore of train strikes – who is the more obstinate, South West Railways or the RMT? – means a car journey down to Fratton Park …

It’s certainly a big game. But is it our game of the season given that they are five points ahead of us at the top of League One, or theirs since victory for us would cut that to two and we have two games in hand?

Monsieur Salut, for once (well twice) will be there to learn the answer to that question. He’s experienced good, bad and average days at Fratton Park over the years.

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Rate the ref: Thomas Bramall – Bristol Rovers at home

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Our first home league game since the series started, meaning this is our first opportunity to get the opinion of a decent sized crowd. We didn’t expect many ratings for away games but thought we would get more people taking part when the game’s at the SOL. The cup game against Walsall did nothing to prove us right as only 9 people bothered to give us a number, and their average gave us the lowest score to date – 4.4 on the Ken-meter.

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Sixer’s Sevens: heavy weather against Bristol Rovers

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Ho ho howay the lads

Pete Sixsmith remains busy on the Saturdays before Christmas so it’s a substitute performance over the weekend. Our deputy editor Malcolm Dawson was there to brave rotten weather conditions and at times rotten play, it seems, happy enough that a game that didn’t go as expected still finished well enough. He sent alternative seven-word verdicts to replace John McCormick’s contingency offering ‘Maja ups the price on his head’. Both evoke the Rovers nickname and the second was sent immediately after the away side threatened to snatch a draw with a spot of late pressure …

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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Team: Bristol Rovers

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The man himself

John McCormick writes: I won’t be in the North East for the home game but I have my eye on the away fixture at Bristol this season. It would be another club and ground on my list, not that I’m collecting. If I was, however, it would be some years before I could approach the number racked up by Pete Sixsmith, who has been here, there and everywhere, despite giving his time to other seasonal pursuits.
And here he is again with the next instalment of his adventures, his first sighting of Bristol Rovers at Roker Park:

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