It is a quiet Tuesday. Valentine’s Day and all that, so M Salut is taking Mme Salut to the theatre tonight to see Crazy For You, which promises to be better than coming joint bottom in a pub quiz last night.
Salut Sunderland
Late result as Stoke lose appeal on Huth: Pulis 0 Decency 1
As a matter of record, Salut! Sunderland notes with satisfaction that Stoke have lost their appeal against Robert Huth’s red card. He collects the standard three-match ban but avoids the extra match the FA disciplinary committee adds for “frivolous” appeals.
Martin O’Neill is no mug, but his mug’s on ours
Click this text: just £9.50, post free, at the Salut! Sunderland Shop
As we indicated the other day Salut! Sunderland is fast approaching 1.5m “hits” since the site’s creation at the beginning of 2007. Boosted by a lot of traffic from the West Midlands and South Wales, after a little fun we had at the expense of Birmingham and Cardiff, we even made it into the top 10 of the Soccerlinks hitlist, just behind a Real Madrid site
Salut! Sunderland’s Week: this column has been sent to Coventry
There really is no need for a review of the week today.
All the busy reader of Salut! Sunderland, who gets here only once in a while, needs to do is visit the home page – www.salutsunderland.com – and take a look at the six most recent articles all displayed there and available for further scrutiny.
Fear to ecstasy, hung jury on Bendtner, shame on Citeh fans
It is the sports editor’s nightmare: you send your best reporter to a contender for match of the season.
It turns out to be an astonishing day packed with drama and emotion. You prepare to clear the front page for his lucid prose. And then he lamely cries off, citing “what looks like a serious computer problem”.
The Man City ‘Who are You?’ update: a mighty Sunderland performance needed
Last season, we got one. It took a fabulous (for us) miss from Tevez and other wasteful City play to keep us in it, but Darren Bent’s last-gasp penalty brought us a massive win. Just imagine what a similar scoreline tomorrow would mean for morale at the Stadium of Light. It is a big, big ask but here’s to the immense performance needed to pull it off.
The Man City build-up kicks off: ‘can we have Balotelli please?’
Far too early to be starting to think about SAFC v Manchester City on Sunday afternoon? Not if you’re the Bluemoon site where they’re already running an interview with our own Pete Sixsmith. He began his shopping list of City players he’d welcome at the Stadium of Light with the Italian striker but, realising the list would never end, settled for Adam Johnson.
Sunderland and Everton from kipper to stinky cheese
From the Blue Kipper Everton fan site (typos – theirs or, more likely, ours, having been tidied up), thoughts on our two clubs … and forget the fierce rivalry you suspected might exist between Salut! Sunderland and Roker Report. We share a love of foul-smelling cheese …
Salut! Sunderland: Christmas cheer in challenging times – and Everton at home tomorrow
Salut! Sunderland – along with the original Salut! site, the folkies’ haven Salut! Live and even the much neglected Salut! North – wishes all readers, regular or casual and even if they do not support Sunderland, a happy Christmas and prosperous new year.