Salut! Sunderland is indebted to the fruitful grapevine that is the Blackcats e-mail loop for an alert to this fascinating documentary charting a century in the life of Sunderland, the town and later city and its people.
It is an ideal way to spend an hour or so – or alternatively to dip in and watch extracts – during the break from football.
John Mac writes: Man City breezed past second division Leeds on Sunday, extending to 41 years the length of time that has elapsed since United last won the FA Cup (they have won the league twice since then but that all seems a long time ago, too).
Forty years ago this fixture could have been the final had City not come up against a different second division side in the fifth round, one that was much, much better than the Leeds of today.
Following the weekend Sixer’s Sevens summing up that Man City-SAFC game, and better 40 years late than never, here is Pete Sixsmith‘s account of his trip to Maine Road, when the first of three teams from the top division succumbed to the Stokoe magic. The general plan is pursue our 1973 cup run in similar fashion until May 5. It beats getting upset again about our lamentably early exit this season …