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Sunderland’s new kits: ‘I like them – do you?’
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Sunderland’s Old Trafford glories: when Suggett, Mulhall and Seb buried Manchester United
SALUT! Sunderland is very sorry that the site was unavailable yesterday and that it appears to be making only a gradual return towards normality. The servers said “emergency” maintenance was needed but are notoriously bad at keeping people informed. This posting was therefore wasted yesterday so here it is again …
Beating Manchester United on their own ground is not impossible, even for Sunderland.
Some, like a Netherlands-based reader Paul Devine, remember the last-but-one actual victory at Old Trafford very well.
“Against Best, Law, Bobby, Paddy and the rest, no one gave us an earthly … I was there, transported on a Roberts bus (apostrophe or no apostrophe) from Wingate to Stretford.”That was in this game’s Guess the Score competition and Paul went on to predict the same scoreline for Saturday.
Sixer’s Soapbox: gloomy outlook after Doncaster display
Malcolm Dawson writes…I was tied up until 5.00pm but considered making the trip to South Yorkshire until first hand reports …
Sixer’s Everton Soapbox: Graham and Defoe bask in deflected glory
Malcolm Dawson writes….Peter Sixsmith was not held up on the journey over the Pennines. He was there to see the …
Seb: ‘the Lads are happier under Poyet’. Us: ‘our turn next?’
It caught my eye that the Sunderland Echo – where’s that piece about the demise of the Footie Echo, Sixer? – was quoting Seb Larsson on how much happier the Lads all were under Gus Poyet.
Glancing at the Premier League table, there’s an obvious response. And the first batch of readers’ comments made it.
Here’s how I put it at ESPNC.com
Martin’s Musings from Peterborough: it’s a real positive to get the win
Martin O’Neill is satisfied, in the end, with a comfortable win at London Road and progress to the next round of the FA Cup. And in his post-match e-mail, the boss makes special mention of the blossoming talent of James McClean …
A tale of three Larrsons, lots of tattoos and Bendtner’s hard-won pizza
Time for one of Salut! Sunderland’s occasional looks abroad. Not French Fancies but Scandinavian Stars …
Salut! Sunderland has taken a while to get round to making up with Seb Larsson.
We’ll do it now but delay an olive branch in the direction of our other Scandinavian first team man, Nicklas Bendtner, until he 1) explains the pizza house shocker or 2) takes a leaf from Seb’s book and scores some winning goals.
Bendtner and Gary Speed: no case to answer
Salut! Sunderland hopes that when Martin O’Neill presides over his first press conference as Sunderland’s manager this afternoon, he is not drawn into pointless discussion of Nicklas Bendtner’s supposedly disrespectful body language during the pre-match tribute to Gary Speed at Molineux.
With carefully manufactured outrage, the website 101greatgoals.com declares that the on-loan forward was seen “smirking and shrugging as the cameras went past all the players”.
Welcome Keiren Westwood and Seb Larsson. And that’s official
Salut! Sunderland is delighted to note the statement from Sunderland AFC tonight confirming 1) perhaps the worst-kept secret so far of the transfer market and 2) success in one of the most encouraging of our reported attempts to bring in fresh talent.
Terms have been agreed with Keiren Westwood, the Coventry City and Republic of Ireland goalkeeper, whose transfer has been reported as fact all or much of the day, everywhere from the Midlands press to Sky Sports, and with Birmingham City’s Swedish international midfielder Sebastian Larsson.