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Sixer’s Burnley Soapbox: thank heavens he can write about travel, too

January 18, 2017 by Colin Randall

Malcolm Dawson writes…..Shildon play Whitley Bay in the Northern League Cup this evening. Peter Sixsmith will be there hoping to …

Moyes on the Boys at Burnley: finding a plus from another negative night

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 by Colin Randall

Malcolm Dawson writes: the manager has had some flak recently for his reluctance to blood some of our younger, more …

Sixer’s Sevens: FA Cup 3rd Round replay. Burnley sink SAFC after another sad performance

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 by Colin Randall

Jake: catch Sixer's instant seven-word verdicts throughout the season — Jake: catch Sixer’s instant seven-word verdicts throughout the season

Monsieur Salut writes: The more Pete Sixsmith mentioned going to Burnley for the replay, the more I felt he was forcing himself to make the trip, such is the burden he carries as a Sunderland supporter and Salut! Sunderland chronicler. On commentary courtesy of Radio Newcastle, an increasingly exasperated Gary Bennett kept insisting we had a chance to rescue the game. Familiar as he is with the Northern League, Benno hoped against hope that a floodlight failure would necessitate a replayed replay. It wasn’t to be and in his succinct seven-word summary Sixer sums up his own frustrations after another disappointing trip across the Pennines …

Burnley vs Sunderland Guess the Score as Rodwell admits supporting SAFC’s tough

January 16, 2017January 16, 2017 by Colin Randall

Jake: ‘let’s see if we can finally beat them’

This is a Guess the Score and Who are You? combined for the FA Cup 3rd round replay at Burnley.

Salut! Sunderland is not on a go-slow or work-to-rule or in any greater sulk than usual. It just seemed unnecessary to run yet another interview with a supporter of a team we will by tomorrow night have played three times since New Year’s Eve. There’ll be a reminder later in this piece of the refreshing thoughts of our previous Burnley interviewee, Andy Robinson, about the importance of the cup to him.

Sixer Says: disappointments vs Burnley, Atherton Collieries, Everton and for SAFC Ladies

January 10, 2017January 9, 2017 by Colin Randall

Pete Sixsmith was among the tens of thousands who gave a miss to Sunderland vs Burnley. Oh what they missed. Sixer’s comeuppance came when the match he chose instead ended with a heavy defeat in the FA Vase for Shildon. the first team M Salut and almost certainly he saw in their County Durham boyhoods. Next day, he dutifully attended Sunderland Under 23s against Everton and still could get a win … there’s just a passing, sorrowful reference to the plight of SAFC Ladies; read more at this Sunderland Echo link

Moyes on the Boys after FA Cup boredraw: deserved praise for Rodwell

January 8, 2017 by Colin Randall

Jake: ‘not much to write home about, boss’

Monsieur Salut writes: now that we’ve done away with the nonsenses of ‘Dear Colin’ at the beginning and ‘All the best’ at the end, e-mails from the manager have an impersonal and sometimes perfunctory look. But what else could David Moyes say about the drab affair that was Sunderland 0-0 Burnley, the outcome probably the worst of three options? I’ might have liked a fuller explanation of his thinking, when throwing on a defender for a midfielder as his only (very late) substitution, but there we go. I share his satisfaction at Jack Rodwell’s improved form (my man-of-the-match too) but this was another game best forgotten …

Sixer’s FA Cup Sevens: SAFC 0-0 Burnley. As Jake put it, ‘zzzzz….’

January 7, 2017January 7, 2017 by Colin Randall

Monsieur Salut writes: To no great surprise Pete Sixsmith preferred Shildon vs Atherton Collieries in the FA Vase. He kept in touch via Barnes and Benno, describing a drab game short on quality and ending goalless before all of 17.632 souls (but my emergency seven-worder appears for now). With a replay almost the last thing Sunderland wanted, and young Joel Asoro on the bench, David Moyes had sent on John O’Shea late as his only substitution. Mmm …

FA Cup Third Round: five good, five bad. Everton, Notts County make both lists

January 5, 2017 by Colin Randall

Bobby Kerr and the FA Cup, May 5 1973, from Art of Football

… in which Pete Sixsmith looks back on the good, bad and exceedingly ugly FA Cup 3rd Round ties he remembers with affection or disgust …

Excitement levels among Sunderland supporters, it has to be said, have not been high over the impending FA Cup tie with Burnley.

I have my ticket due to the Cup Ticket option but am considering missing out in order to watch a tasty FA Vase tie between Shildon and Atherton Collieries. But it did get me thinking about epic and disastrous third round clashes in the past.

The SAFC Burnley Who are You?: ‘I’d take FA Cup and relegation’

January 5, 2017January 5, 2017 by Colin Randall

When Andy Robinson*‘s ‘Who are You?’ interview was published before Sunderland played Andy’s club Burnley, we agreed he would also do the honours for the FA Cup game a week later. That game is almost upon us and Andy’s comments on the FA Cup, and what it means to him, will endear him to many readers just as did last week’s interview. As for the game at Turf Moor, Saturday, safe to say Andy enjoyed it more than us. He starts with his reflections on Burnley 4-1 SAFC – leading to his thoughts on this weekend’s match …

Sunderland vs Burnley: aiming for revenge in FA Cup Guess the Score

January 4, 2017 by Colin Randall

Jake: ‘let’s make beating them more than a consolation prize, Lads’

Monsieur Salut introduces another prize Guess the Score ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup 3rd Round to at home to Burnley, against whom we have something to prove (though most of us might feel strongly that the point should be made, and three points taken, when the return league fixture comes round in March) …

No one won the three-for-two New Year Guess the Score, in which readers were asked to predict both the Burnley and Liverpool scorelines and – if right – win three mugs.

That is hardly surprising since only in the deepest recesses of pessimistic hearts would a Sunderland supporter (most entrants always being SAFC) would the prospect of a crushing defeat at Turf Moor seem a) a likely outcome and b) one respectable to predict.