Accrington Stanley v Sunderland AFC preview Saturday 14th September sees us return to action after the International Break; we are headed to familiar territory – Accrington Stanley. The match will be our 4th visit to the Wham Stadium in 10…

5 months in…. not a great deal achieved, but plenty of laughs along the way…. this is the 100th SAFCBlog post. Thanks to Roger from Durham for his email, I am able to confirm, I genuinely don’t have anything better…

For the third midweek in a row, we head to Lancashire and face Burnley in the Carabao Cup. Funny one really as the league is the priority, but obviously winning games is a good habit. Burnley are a proper club…

AFC Wimbledon Preview Next up at the SOL is Wimbledon, we beat them twice last season, first up was a 2-1 win at their place, (we were dreadful and very lucky to win), fortunately goal machine Lee Barry Cattermole weighed…

Games keep coming thick and fast, our 2nd of 3 consecutive Tuesday nights in Lancashire sees us visiting Rochdale. SAFCBlog predicted in the summer that Rochdale would stay up, (just), this season. To be fair, having finished 16th last season,…

Saturday sees us play Portsmouth for the 5th time in 19 weeks, given that this includes the close season, its fair to say we’ve seen a lot of each other! There have been noises about a nasty edge to the…

We visit Accrington in the 1st round of the League Cup, SAFCBlog has previously stated to forget the cups this season, that said – morale wise it’s probably best to beat Accrington and then lose to someone average like Stoke…

Ipswich Town Away Preview Saturday was shite….. but we go again as always. I’m not convinced many people read this, but for those who were about for a bit of 80s football…. Ipswich Town were a fantastic team; in the…

Footballs back! After an ultimately disappointing season last time out, optimism is high and it’s time for the fun to begin….. First up is Oxford at home, we had two 1-1 draws with them last season, (who’d have thought it?)….

Sat 27 July @ 7pm pre season Sunderland vs SC Heerenveen The date had been put aside for Cattermole’s testimonial! Fair dos to Lee; we’ve had some really gutless shithouses at at club of late. Cattermole has always put 100%…