
Fitness, Heart and Desire
Welcome to article #210 from SAFCBlog, it’s rare that I write anything without referencing that football is a game of opinions, that’s great and just the way it should be. Opinions aside, football is a results business and as such it’s also a game of facts? Forgetting the reasons why, (for now), we have played really well the last 3 games, 7 points would have been 9 had the referee not given the daftest penalty ever against us at Fleetwood. We never really got going against Bolton and it was a disappointing day, but….. if the referee hadn’t wrongly disallowed Flanaghan’s header – we’d have won that game. I’m never a fan of hanging refs out to dry too much though, it’s a really difficult job and the further down the leagues you go – the harder it gets? Just look at the linesmen at the next game you’re at, they are no help whatsoever / terrified to give a decision. There’s no such thing as a biased referee if you consider how maligned they are at the highest level, by the time you work your way down to our league, it’s unrealistic to expect poor decisions not to be a factor for all teams?Highlights from the Lincoln game
Whilst we are operating in facts, we won yesterday and we won well. Thanks to the kind permission of the genius that is @LadSunder here’s the highlights of yesterday’s win……… https://twitter.com/LadSunder/status/1213754403632697344Sunderland players lack of fitness
Recent improvements in fitness, heart and desire
We’ve looked like we’ve wanted it recently, whilst Parkinson comes across as calm and articulate, Steve Parkin is clearly absolutely completely mad and fucking nails. Sean Dyche and Chris Wilder are brilliant, they have both regularly said…. giving absolutely everything is the absolute bare minimum.


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There’s nothing like a few good performances and results for SAFCBlog to get carried away, but I wouldn’t have it any other way? So, is it really as simple as leadership, desire, heart, passion, intensity, tempo? Yesterday Maguire forced a corner and goal in a 5 minute spell – he’s got bags of skill, but in these instances it was desire – yes, Lincoln made errors, but teams in this league are mostly shite – put under pressure they will make mistakes. I don’t expect to see Will Grigg play for us again, so it’s no longer relevant – but….. would Grigg have made those two efforts? There will be people reading this who disagree and yes it is all a bit League 1….. it is indeed, because….. we are in League 1, we play at shite grounds, we get kicked all over, every team who comes the SOL has their biggest away following of the season, we have no divine right to beat teams with shit grounds and no history.
Forget this, and the jobs fucked?
Who knows where we’ll end up, but I’d say we will be having a right go……
MK Dons Sunderland Match Preview

4 – 0…. 48 hours on

Kyle Lafferty – Welcome to Sunderland

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