Rob Hutchison

Sometimes, as against Norwich City FC, even a word is just too much

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Jake: 'path ...et...and, indeed, ic'
Jake: ‘path …et…and, indeed, ic’

Jonh  McCormick again:

Not quite half a century ago I spent a Saturday evening in the cellar of Norwich’s Orford Arms, after an overnight coach trip, a long wait until the 3pm kickoff and a defeat. By then I was knackered and only wanted to drink but some of the others who’d made it – possibly the pensioners you read on this site these days – weren’t going to let trivialities such as a loss stop them dancing on the table. After all, we were Sunderland and they were just Norwich. Then came 1985, 2013, and so on, and, maybe, we should acknowledge that the Canaries, upstarts who only reached the top rank just before we won our second FA cup, deserve their Premiership status and are entitled to dance on our grave.

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Hutch’s Patch: post-Arsenal joy in The Land of the Rising Sunderland

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Rob: 'what's Ha'way the Lads in Japanese?'
Rob: ‘what’s Ha’way the Lads in Japanese?’


Monsieur Salut writes: is there anything wrong with milking this for all it;s worth? There is not. Even Hull, Mag, Leicester, Boro friends/family have been on to congratulate me as if I’d done Dick’s job for him.

Rob Hutchison, it will be remembered, supplied all those punchy one-word ratings until he scarpered off on holiday to Japan, under a wifely thumb rather than fearful of sticking around for the climax to the season. He woke up to some welcome news …

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One-word SAFC ratings vs Southampton: hang on there, fat lady

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Rob: ' no longer wishing I was stuck in a desert'
Rob: ‘no longer wishing I was stuck in a desert’

 

John McCormick writes: As I’m doing Rob Hutchison’s post, Radio 5 has cut from the footie to some southern hospital where the heir’s spare has produced a spare heir. Apparently there are some 80 year olds waiting outside for something good to happen. Yeah, I’ve got that T shirt, I’m thinking.

But the reporter goes on and on, trying to build mountains into molehills. Not that it matters to Rob, who not only has something good of his own to report for a change but can also give Radio 5 lessons in brevity:

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Hutch’s Patch: Larsson the star as Sunderland making beating Newcastle a habit

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Jake: 'nowt wrong with route one'
Jake: ‘for days like this …’

Sixer has had the first of his says – https://safc.blog/2015/04/sixers-sevens-sunderland-1-newcastle-united-0-defoe-makes-adams-looks-ordinary/ – and Monsieur Salut has done the balancing act tequired at ESPNC (http://www.espnfc.com/club/sunderland/366/blog). But if we are honest, it all comes down to the result – what three points mean to our prospects of survival and what doing it five in a row against Newcastle means for tribal instinct.
Here’s Rob Hutchison‘s appraisal, one word per players but read each word in sequence and you’ll get his drift …

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