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Guess the Score: special Tottenham, Crystal Palace and Southampton prize edition

February 22, 2017January 28, 2017 by Colin Randall

Monsieur Salut writes:

There is already a Guess the Score prize competition running for SAFC v Tottenham at this link. Check it out if you haven’t already.

Tomorrow (Sunday) I leave on holiday, entrusting the safe stewardship of the site to Malcolm, John, Pete and Jake in the knowledge that there will also be a steady stream of first-rate contributions from Wrinkly Pete, Bob Chapman, Ken Gambles and so many more, who will have the foresight to send their words to salutsunderland@gmail.com as well as to me.

And for the small matter of taking nine points from the three games in my absence on holiday, I leave the club in the safe hands of David Moyes and our splendid players, who will naturally be welcoming some top new colleagues before Wednesday.

SAFC v Tottenham Hotspur Guess the Score: double prize if Sunderland win

January 31, 2017January 25, 2017 by Colin Randall

Jake updates his brilliant image for last season’s SAFC v Spurs game

Monsieur Salut is off to the Far East on ~~a fact-finding tour~~ holiday but puts off preparations to explain how one esteemed reader of this site can win not one mug, but two in this week’s competition …

Each matchday is preceded by a Guess the Score competition. And each week, most of Salut! Sunderland‘s loyal readers operate on the principle of blind faith and predict a win or a draw for the team they support.

West Bromwich Albion vs Sunderland Guess the Score: can we, will we?

January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 by Colin Randall

Enter the prize Guess the Score – whoever you support

Something like this – you choose the names. And a Derby County-supporting winner would get a design more to his his/her taste

You never know – you could end up the proud owner of one of these (or a Cardiff one)

Is a mug the way to a despairing Sunderland fan’s heart? Would the already rosy life, relatively, of a Baggie be made complete by having something new to pour his tea into?

There is very little Monsieur Salut wants to say about the third Guess the Score prize competition in a week. It is painful enough to think about Sunderland’s wretched season without having to find something new to write about it on these pages.

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.

SAFC vs Stoke City Guess the Score: one we can (must?) win

January 12, 2017January 10, 2017 by Colin Randall

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Guess the Score … in which the esteemed supporters of Sunderland and Stoke City, both sides acquainted with that most prestigious of colour schemes, red and white stripes, are warmly invited to predict the scoreline that history shall record …

Why is this week’s Guess the Score appearing early again this week? OK, the main reason is that no one has anything else they want to say beyond pointless reflections on transfers that may or may not happen.

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.

Weighing up our chances at Burnley and at home to Liverpool

December 31, 2016December 30, 2016 by Colin Randall

Just a quick update ahead of our two games over the New Year period, away to Burnley tomorrow and at home to Liverpool 48 hours later.

It seemed sensible to bring together Guess the Score into one joint competition, though structured to allow for single entries too.

Burnley and Liverpool Guess the Scores. Prizes at the treble

December 30, 2016December 28, 2016 by Colin Randall

Liverpool’s ultimately easy 4-1 win against Stoke City confirms what we already knew – that Monday’s game against Jurgen Klopp’s side will be tough. Even if Simon Mignolet keeps his place and makes more errors than usual, they have bags of goals in them.

That makes Saturday’s game all the more important. The good work of the past eight games, producing 12 points and giving Sunderland a fighting chance of getting out of trouble, would be undermined if we came a cropper at Turf Moor unless we then rose to the occasion at the Stadium of Light two days later.

Manchester United vs SAFC Guess the Score: a gift of Christmas present

December 26, 2016December 20, 2016 by Colin Randall

Monsieur Salut spoke with forked tongue.

The Watford game was not, after all, the last of 2016 to be marked by a prize edition of Guess the Score. I have decided that even if it means the cat goes without food this Christmas, I will stump up for a mug for whoever is first to predict the correct score for Manchester United vs Sunderland on Boxing Day.

That’s my modest Christmas present – and anyone except me can enter. That means all who help keep Salut! Sunderland afloat are eligible for the life-changing prize – a mug with the winner’s choice of name as No 12.

Sunderland v Watford Guess the Score: last prize edition of 2016

December 17, 2016December 15, 2016 by Colin Randall

Art of Football captures a magical moment

See these (above) and other Art of Football prints by clicking anywhere on this caption

Successive defeats have dumped Sunderland straight back at the bottom after all the promise of our mini-revival.

Most of us get fed up with being told this or that match is “must win”. We could beat Watford handsomely and then embark on a long losing streak sending us down by February or March.

Equally, we could lose and then shock football by taking point off not only Burnley but Manchester United and Liverpool, too.