Cheer up Jan Kirchhoff: even Charlie Hurley had a debut to forget

Jake: 'in time, Jan ...'
Jake: ‘in time maybe, Jan …’

The Hoff needn’t get The Huff. We’ve all had rotten days at work and sometimes, for some of us, on the first day of a new job. Before he knows it, the fans will be singing, ‘Who’s the greatest centre half the world has even seen … Jan Kirchhoff is his name’. Anyone with the sense of history shown in Iain Foster’s comment knows Charlie Hurley also made a wretched start to life with Sunderland. Iain wonders whether we might follow King Charlie with Kaiser Kirchhoff and Pete Sixsmith takes up the story …

Charlie Hurley: courtesy of therokerend.com - see footnote
Charlie Hurley: courtesy of therokerend.com

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Willkommen bet Jan: Sixer tells Kirchhoff he’s welcome – and needed – at SAFC

It wasn’t signed, sealed and announced as Pete Sixsmith succumbed to the editor’s pressure and wrote his customary piece welcoming an ostensibly smart and necessary new signing. It is now (see the official announcement at safc.com)*. We don’t often get to bring in players from one of the best two or three teams in Europe so it feels quite a special moment in Sunderland history …

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