Asked who has most impressed West Ham supporters this season, our “Who are You?” interviewee, David Blackmore, editor the Blowing …
Malcolm Dawson writes…..on the way back from today’s game Pete Sixsmith got a text suggesting that Big Dick had checked …
Rob Hutchison has been quiet during the recent Sunderland slump. But he is back after the 2-2 home draw with West Ham with his punchy one-word verdicts on the Lads in red and white (and on the quite appalling ref Neil Swarbrick). Sorry Hammers – you’ll have to do the one-worders for your players …
M Salut writes: at 2-0, with management of the Sunderland AFC in wretched disarray, how many of us were really confident it would stay that way? Yet it should have got better, putting the game beyond West Ham’s reach, if only Borini had buried his great chance. Instead, we went in at the interval at 2-1 after Moses had all the time in the world to set up his cross and Borini could do nothing to stop Carl Jenkinson scoring. Pete Sixsmith worried at half time that the miss would prove costly and he was right, despite going home chuffed with the “best performance of the season”.
With spectacular inconsistency, Neil Swarbrick then sent off Lens, scorer of our sublime second, for a second yellow while looking on benignly when Mark Noble’s crude block on Borini should have made it 10-a-side. Quite scandalous refereeing. With Pantilimon’s weak parry allowing the Hammers to equalise, we had to settle for a point and thank Man City for walloping the Mags to lift us off bottom . …
Salut! Sunderland cannot pretend to know what substance there is to speculation that Dick Advocaat has resolved to leave tomorrow evening if Sunderland fail yet again to record a win.
Malcolm Dawson writes…regular visitors to Salut! Sunderland will be aware that we have had no end of problems with the …
With any luck, Salut! Sunderland will be back to normal or something like it very soon. Sam, our West Ham-supporting …
Malcolm Dawson writes…..“Don’t be too unhappy going home girls – it’s a long way back,” I cheerfully remarked to two …
Guess the Score – absent without leave prior to Liverpool vs SAFC – returns along with news of a great competition where the prize will be tickets, travel and accommodation for two for the Champions League final in Lisbon …
TalkSPORT has been kind to Salut! Sunderland. We had a good ‘Who are You?’ with Micky Quinn before a SAFC vs Liverpool game in 2011 – https://safc.blog/2011/03/who-are-you-mick-quinns-divided-liverpool-and-newcastle-loyalties/ – and an outstanding one with Melissa Rudd, as assistant producer, before her club, our other recent opponents Norwich City, visited the SoL in December (https://safc.blog/2013/12/safc-v-norwich-who-are-you-the-worst-keeper-ive-ever-seen/. Now The Moose – Ian Abrahams* – looks at Monday’s clash between Sunderland and his beloved Hammers, dismisses as nonsense the charge that his radio station is Londoncentric, tickles our tummies by saying we’ll stay up and fondly remembers Pop Robson’s playing days …