Tonight’s the night. Sunderland try to go one better than in that battling Goodison display and win a place in the Wembley semi-finals and, who knows, the final after that.
A night of truth for Sunderland, Everton – and James or Dennis
Everton
SAFC v Everton ‘Who are You?’: from Birmingham Blues to Bitter Blues
Yesterday was a day for Sixth Round Blues as the Birmingham shade wrecked Sunderland women’s FA Cup dreams in their quarter finals. Can the Lads drive red and white into the ascendancy tomorrow and shatter the Everton Blues’ 6th round hopes? Diane Hill, a devoted Evertonian and secretary of the Harrogate Toffees*, seems to think we will do no such thing – but doesn’t see her Blues going on to win the trophy …
A challenge in a million (and a half): get QPR, Everton scores right
Guess-the-score is back, with a bang. There are two scorelines to predict and the prizes are sensational (one part of this paragraph is entirely false) …
The Everton Soapbox: a good day at Goodison, Liverpool to come
Pete Sixsmith who, as ever, was part of the noisy invasion of Merseyside, enjoyed a pre-match pint or three, has praise for our keeper and the referee and calls for the signing of a diminutive Glaswegian crossdresser to improve our prospects of scoring from dead ball situations …
Martin’s Musings: keeping the dream alive
With the dream of a visit or two to Wembley still alive, Martin O’Neill has special words of praise for 5,800 travelling fans and one Belgian keeper in his latest post match e-mail …
Sixer’s Sevens: Everton 1 Sunderland 1. The FA Cup dream lives on …
Here 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.
And a 1-1 draw at Goodison kept our FA Cup hopes firmly alive with every reason to look forward to beating Everton at the second attempt.
County Durham 1 – Merseyside 1, with the Wembley arch in tantalising reach
Pete Sixsmith, in a never ending search for his latest footy fix, witnesses two clashes between the emerging (and fading) talents of Liverpool and Durham, before a quiet night of cocoa and pikelets in preparation for his early start to Goodison tomorrow …
Salut!’s Sunderland’s Week: offering hands of friendship to Everton, Liverpool and Leeds
The business part of the weekend starts so early – 1245 kickoff at Goodison – that it makes sense for Salut!’s review of the past six or seven days to appear today.
Everton or Sunderland for the FA Cup semis? Your shout, your chance of glory
Right, matchday approaches, David Moyes has raised the bar on what is at stake by fielding a weakened and duly thrashed team at Anfield and now two grand old clubs prepare to slug it out to keep Wembley dreams (for the final, that is, not just the semis) alive. Your task is simple: guess the correct score. Be the first to get it right, in the comments below or at the Salut! Sunderland Facebook group. Entries will be taken up to kickoff and the winner will be chosen by Monsieur Salut.
The Everton v SAFC ‘Who are You?’: Cumberland gaps
Do you sometimes feel the “Who are You?” interviews ramble on for too long? Could you do with something shorter, snappier? If yes, then David Stead, secretary of the Cumberland branch of the Everton supporters’ club, is your man. He said in advance he would keep his replies short and treated the questionnaire like an exam paper, choosing the questions he wished to answer and leaving the rest. We’re grateful all the same; being asked out of the blue to be a (blue) “Who are You?” candidate probably feels like having cold-call sales pitches from British Gas, BT and every other double glazing firm combined. So in the great tradition of Barry Maddicott, another Everton fan who, in 2010, produced the shortest “Who are You?” in the history of the series, here are David’s responses ahead of the FA Cup 6th round at Goodison …