Shildon FC
One last shoutout for Shildon, a club well within Sunderland’s catchment area
Permit Monsieur Salut one last cry of encouragement to Shildon AFC as they seek to end a 75-year wait and lift the Northern League championship trophy tonight.
Sixer assesses survival chances and sees another away side score four in Sunderland
Pete Sixsmith was at both of those games affecting SAFC and stayed to the bitter end, along with a few hundred others (or so it seemed). This time a scoreline with four goals for the away team left him smiling …
Two more wins, two more wins……….
That would almost certainly keep Sunderland in the Premier League for another season of looking over our shoulders at the bottom 3. For Shildon, it would guarantee their first Northern League Championship since 1937 – the year that Raich Carter, Bobby Gurney and Eddie Birbanks brought the FA Cup back to Wearside for the first time.
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Wigan or Wembley? A genuine dilemma
After Stoke,we welcome another footballing giant in Wigan Athletic. Pete Sixsmith may well give that one a miss for a ride on a potential Wembley bandwagon..
After the display we were forced to sit through on Monday night, only the most devoted followers of the Marquis de Sade can be looking forward to the visit of the Wigan pie eaters with any enthusiasm or expectation.
Wigan had an even worse result than we did, losing at home to serial bankrupts Notts County in an FA Cup replay, which prised 4,000 Latics out of their armchairs and into the DW stadium to watch open-mouthed as their team were dumped on.
That should reduce the Wigan following from the tiny to the miniscule, and should lead to a huge number of empty seats in the South Stand. Add to that the fact that there may well be an empty seat in the East Stand (Row 34, Seat 404) as I am caught on the horns of a footballing dilemma.