The writer of what follows started out as plain Ordinary Jon, his base “mostly Leicester”. We wondered whether he would choose to come in closer from the cold and now he has, revealing himself to be Jon Adamson*, a Peterlee exile. And this is the first blog posting he has written on his passion for Sunderland AFC. It appears in original form at http://www.ordinaryjon.com/1/post/2013/10/great-time-to-be-a-sunderland-fan.html and reads, with his consent, like this …