When you worry about getting to the game, whether it will be on, whether you’ll get back, three points – however tough we make them to secure – are heartily welcome. Always a threat going forward and generally safe at the back, we lacked finishing punch against a hard-working team that started the day above us.
This, then, is Sunderland AFC in snapshot, the most recent of Pete Sixsmith’s inimitable seven-word verdicts on each of our games. The full archive – see link below – encapsulates the matchday experiences, from darkest gloom to sublime elation, of a fan who is usually there …
Dec 18 2010 SAFC (1) 1 Bolton Wanderers (0) 0 Marginally the better team. Merry Christmas all
Dec 11 2010 Fulham (0) 0 SAFC (0) 0 Unambitiously scrappy draw, but Mensah was immense
Dec 5 SAFC (1) 1 West Ham United (0) 0 Made hard work of beating relegation certainties
Nov 27 Wolves (0) 3 SAFC (0) 2 Points thrown away by totally inept defending
Nov 22 SAFC (1) 2 Everton (1) 2 Fair result but should have held on
Nov 14 Chelsea (0) 0 SAFC (1) 3 Best performance in years: a stunning show
To see Sixer’s Sevens in full, click here. If an asterisk precedes the comment, the words that follow are the work of someone else because Pete is for once absent from the game or his verdict has been delayed …