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Bill Cowell already has an OBE. Now he’s Guessed a Sunderland Score

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Burnley away and another chance to Guess the Score will come soon enough. But first, let’s hear about a winner, a supporter whose mother moved south but had the good sense and exceptional style to go back to her native Sunderland to give birth to each of her children …

Bill Cowell is one of this site’s more regular visitors and, via the Comments, contributors. He has been watching Sunderland since, wait for it, the late 1940s. It is fitting that he should have won the first sponsored instalment of the Guess the Score feature.

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Sixer’s Tottenham Soapbox: resilience the key as Kane o.g. makes the point

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Pete Sixsmith
Pete Sixsmith: Real Ale, real-ief

Those who were there will be able to say “I was there” and those who weren’t there will be able to say “I wish I’d been there” but no one will be able to say how we came away with a point. Except, perhaps, our own Pete Sixsmith, who eschewed the triumphalism of the last night of the Proms to bring us this report:

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Sixer’s Sevens: SAFC 2 Tottenham Hotpsur 2. Now be thankful

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Jake: 'Sixer does it in seven words, no more, no less - unless he miscounts'
Jake: ‘Sixer does it in seven words, no more, no less – unless he miscounts’

Monsieur Salut guessed at ESPN that Gus Poyet would settle for a point. Pete Sixsmith said at haf time he’d take the 1-1 we then had. Anyone who saw or listened to the game will know we got out of jail. Spurs dominated, threatened, hit woodwork, went close too often for comfort. It made the wretched simulation of Erik Lamela (our ‘Who are You?’ interviewee did warn us about him) and Danny Rose seem so unnecessary. But maybe they had a point; after the second equaliser we might even have snatched it. Sixer’s customary seven-word instant verdict (his last one stretched only to six words, until corrected rather late, but never mind that) tells you all you need to now for now…

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Tottenham ‘Who are You?’: on Glenda, Bale, Danny Rose and Chris Turner

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Jake has ways of making them talk
Jake has ways of making them talk

Mark Solomons*, a recovering tabloid journalist and lifelong Spurs supporter, reckons his lot will romp to a 3-1 victory on Saturday though he’d settle for the usual own goal. In a lively exchange, with touches of self-deprecation, humour and classic Norf London superiority, he damns Danny Rose with faint praise, affects to believe former Spurs hero Gareth Bale doesn’t dive, heaps acclaim on own former goalkeeping star Chris Turner and, as a non-practising Jew, defends the “anti-anti-Semitic” Yid chants …

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SAFC v Tottenham Hotspur Guess the Score: a partnership is born

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Jake: 'Ha'way me bonny lads'
Jake: ‘Ha’way me bonny lads’


Let’s go early, I thought. The international breaks are important of course, and it was naturally Sunderland AFC that turned Danny Welbeck into such an impressive striker.

But even though I have to return to France until October, I am excited as anyone planning to be at the SoL on Saturday about the resumption of proper football.

And I also have a great little partnership to announce.

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Sixer’s Tottenham Soapbox: AND THAT IS THE END OF THAT

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Sixer: rugby league isbeckoning
Sixer: rugby league is beckoning

John McCormick writes: Pete Sixsmith has been there, he’s done it and and he has the scars under the T shirt. Today he reminisces about Fred Astaire, probably to keep his mind from Dame Nelly Melba, who’s warming up somewhere in the background, and then he gives us his opinion.

Do you want to read it? Probably not but it has to be better than our manager’s e-mail:

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Poyet: no poyetry, no motion, not even many words after Tottenham debacle

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This is what Jake urged ...
This is what Jake urged …

Monsieur Salut writes: I was relieved to discover no one else had jumped to attention and posted Gus Poyet‘s post-match reaction straight away last night after I’d knocked off my ESPN piece and gone to bed (which started out as ‘gone to bad’; see Ken’s comment). Not surprisingly, after the utter shambles of a second half that saw a respectable 1-1 degenerate into a 5-1 rout, that reaction was curt. But we, as supporters, have few sanctions available to us when let down as badly as this by our club. Not turning up – Pete Sixsmith has already said he will attend no further away games; we’ll be lucky if he bothers with the home ones either – is one. And Salut! Sunderland ignoring, if only by default, the head coach’s attempt at explanation until this morning is another. Pure Poyetry? Poetry in Motion? Hardly. Do not expect to learn much …

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