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Wouldn’t it be nice? Wrinkly Pete listens to Pet Sounds, hears Sunderland

November 12, 2014November 12, 2014 by Colin Randall

The full tracklist for the Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds, so good for its time that it even came – belatedly – to be admired in the USA, runs: Wouldn’t It Be Nice?; You Still Believe in Me; That’s Not Me; Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder); I’m Waiting for the Day; Let’s Go Away for Awhile; Sloop John B; God Only Knows; I Know There’s an Answer; Here Today; I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times; Pet Sounds and Caroline No.

Task for today? To apply the ones Peter Lynn left out as he found ways of describing his Sunderland thoughts and experiences through pop song titles and lyrics. I’ll see if I can twist the arms of Personalised Football Gifts for a mug for the best entry (as well as going back on the last time I said the same thing and promptly forgot to award a prize). Let’s keep it to the Beach Boys but I’ll allow entries citing tracks from the rest of their discography …

Wrinkly Pete climbs aboard after Palace: thoughts on our coach and some passengers

November 6, 2014November 5, 2014 by Colin Randall

Peter Lynn: old enough for a bus pass, but who is he travelling with?

Peter Lynn appreciates a victory as much as the next fan. But there are times, he feels, when it’s important not to get carried away and instead reflect on the weaknesseses and doubts a winning display reveals, as well as the strengths ….

I’m still on the bus with Gus but there are too many passengers!

A win is a win and that’s all that matters to most of us and so it is with me but I feel the need to strike a note of caution as I enjoy the feelgood factor that the Palace win has created. Our last win, against Stoke, was followed by the Southampton debacle and surely we all want to avoid a repeat of that. So I think an honest appraisal of recent performances, both individual and collectively, may help.

Wrinkly Pete: last words on Southampton and some of them are positive

October 23, 2014October 23, 2014 by Colin Randall

We cannot guarantee these will be the very last words – Salut! Sunderland clings to democratic values – but, speaking …

Wrinkly Pete: the resurrection of Lee Cattermole

September 6, 2014September 5, 2014 by Colin Randall

Jake: 'deserved praise for Catts' — Jake: let’s hear some praise for Catts

Monsieur Salut writes: I like Wrinkly Peter Lynn‘s contributions. So do many others. He is, as he puts it himself, ‘old school’ but that is right only in the positive sense that he has good, strong values when it comes to football (and, doubtless, life). Here is a timely reappraisal of Lee Cattermole, who seems to have devoted a lot of effort into showing he is actually a very good footballer…

Wembley and Safe. Some words for the fans: (7) dignity, passion, belief …

May 21, 2014May 20, 2014 by Colin Randall

The series is winding down. Pete Sixsmith, whose match reports have brightened these pages from the earliest times of Salut! Sunderland, will deliver his end-of-season verdict and that will be that. As Monsieur Salut returns from his little break in Sorrento – ‘Borini, Mannone, Giaccherini you said?,’ a young waiter trilled, admiring my command of Italian, ‘you’re a Sunderland supporter!’ – there may be just one more to fit in after this before Sixer has his say. Here’s Peter Lynn, aka Wrinkly Pete, with his own mixture of highs and lows, superbly pinpointing the magnificent efforts of the supporters all season long …

Wrinkly Pete: my own ‘Dear Gus’ on the Norwich and Liverpool contrast

March 28, 2014March 28, 2014 by Colin Randall

Jake: 'I'm not counting the wrinkles ...' — Jake: ‘I’m not counting the wrinkles …’

In common with Monsieur Salut and a lot of others, Peter Lynn* – aka Wrinkly Pete – gets the post-match e-mails from Gus Poyet. He decided it was time to write back and M Salut thinks this should be published before a prize edition of Guess the Score for SAFC v West Ham, which will now appear from Saturday morning with the added incentive of a competition for tickets, travel and hotel to attend the Champions League final in Lisbon …

Sunderland crisis: the role of fans who ‘made me proud at Hull’

March 28, 2014December 10, 2013 by Colin Randall

We just knew the name – Peter Lynn – was familiar. Obviously not Tom, whose contributions are always valued, but it rang a bell. Peter reminds us that he once cajoled Salut! Sunderland into making e-mail feeds more easy to use, or just possible to use (most of us wouldn’t have a clue where to start). Here, out of the blue or a result of our collective Blues, is his take on current woes …