For once it seems wise to leave proper comment to Pete Sixsmith. He was there, Monsieur Salut was not. Good as Barnes and Bennett are on BBC Radio Newcastle, radio commentary is no substitute for seeing the game in the stadium. Pete’s three-word verdict can be seen above. His seven-word verdict, quoted below woth heavy heart, will be followed in due course by his fuller assessment of what sounded like a cautious, unadventurous evening playing lowly QPR…
Almost forgot. It is a big game tonight, says Martin O’Neill, at the same time denying those tweeted claims that he had offered his resignation after the West Brom defeat.
Sadly, when you’ve won only twice and it’s almost December, every match is big. In the short time left before the match gets under way, here’s your opportunity to say how will this one end up.
As Pete Sixsmith said, another Saturday, another Sunderland defeat (he actually wrote ‘another Sunday’, as in another Sunday to have to write about losing). So let us put WBA behind us and move on in hope. Is it to be a case of ‘Arry arriving at just at the wrong time for us or will the men who are the cause of our disappointment finally offer a home performance the supporters deserve? Monsieur Salut’s former colleague John Crowley, a Loftus Road loyalist (if you can have loyalists from County Cork), weighs up the new boss’s prospects, tells us where the “dour Welshman down the pub” went wrong and prescribes a course of patience for our own support …
As if we hadn’t banged on about Villa quite enough (though we do wonder how many Villans don’t yet know one of theirs won the top prize in our prestigious ”Who are You?” awards), now we’re at it again. Or, rather we’re not, not really. Stephen Goldsmith* – as Goldy – has been a frequent, thoughtful contributor to Comments and simply uses the Darren Bent example as the starting point for a riveting read on the glossary of want-away footballing hypocrisy …
Up in the French Alps, Monsieur Salut was about to negotiate the “highest road in Europe” – the mountain pass was closed so he had to make do with the second, third of whatever highest – when he glanced at the pages of L’Equipe and found a report of the Sunderland 3 QPR 1 match. Almost entirely devoted to Cissé’s folly. Pete Sixsmith can add the French press to his media targets …
Here Pete Sixsmith captures the glory and shame, hope and despair, excitement and ennui of the Sunderland matchday experience. When, …
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) …
Steve Colwell, a beer buff who runs the website beer.meister.co.uk, supped at our table just before the first game, which …
Salut! Sunderland takes another look back over events of the past week, as reflected in our postings …
Pete Sixsmith enjoyed the cartoons at a Private Eye exhibition he caught in London before heading back north. But he was pre-disposed to smile, Sunderland’s performance the night before having made him, eventually, a very happy soul …
