Starting with three points against the Hammers, this 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 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
Nov 9 2010 Tottenham Hotspur (0) 1 SAFC (0) 1 * Classy equaliser, gutsy defending bring just reward
Nov 6 2010 SAFC (1) 2 Stoke City (0) 0 New boys beat old boys – but wobbly
Oct 31 2010 Newcastle United (3) 5 SAFC (0) 1 A complete embarrassment from beginning to end
Oct 23 2010 SAFC (1) 1 Aston Villa (0) 0 Just enough to hang on, but shaky
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 …