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Gillingham at Home in Review


January 30, 2021

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Momentum building, a very winnable home game, expectation rising…….we all know what normally happens next? Whether it’s Hull after hammering the Mags, Southampton 0-4 after winning 4-0 at Palace, Plymouth a few weeks ago, we have a habit of not …

Charlie Wyke Fatness 0 Fitness 1


Fatness 0 Fitness 1


January 12, 2020

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Fatness 0 Fitness 1 Yesterday was absolutely brilliant, I’d go so far to say that the 1st half and especially a 15 minute spell, was the best football I’ve ever seen us play! Big statement obviously, especially as we are …



SAFCBlog Transfer Window Krombacher Club #1


January 29, 2021

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Given there’s not a right lot to do at present, the games don’t half seem to be coming round quickly, whilst the remit of SAFCBlog is Match Previews & Reviews, (loosely speaking), I should probably write something about the Transfer …



Gillingham Up Next – In Preview


January 27, 2021

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Great result last night, if we can we win on Saturday we are officially on a run, whilst we were winning at Ipswich, Gillingham were giving Crewe a bit of a shoeing. I’d assumed Gillingham were shite on the basis …



Tractor Boys Tuesday Night Club – Ipswich Town Away in Preview


January 24, 2021

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Last time we visited Ipswich was under the leadership of Jack Ross, like most games under Jack it finished 1-1 Following Sunderland over recent years has on the most part been pretty depressing, even with a very low bar as …



Sunderland Win, Lose or Draw* at Ipswich


January 26, 2021

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12/5 for a home win looks a big price? Further research shows that of the last 6 home games, they have lost 5, the solitary win was against an absolutely hapless Burton team, who are fast becoming the whipping boys …



Sunderland Comfortably Beat Shrewsbury Town, (**)


January 23, 2021

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(** – Hopefully) Tuesday wasn’t very good, as seems to be the case this season, we’ve thankfully got an opportunity to get back on track a few days after. Home Comforts, Home is where the heart is, Home Sweet Home …



SAFC & The Seven Year Itch


January 22, 2021

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Tomorrow we play Shrewsbury Town in a 3rd Tier fixture that I reckon we’ll draw 1-1. Seven years ago today, I had the most fantastic night at Old Trafford as we beat Man Utd to secure a trip to Wembley. …



A Very, Very, Very, Very Sunderland Tuesday Night….


January 21, 2021

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I was massively confident we’d win on Tuesday, I actually thought we’d win easily, whilst it could be strongly argued that I’m an idiot, it was just such a Sunderland result and performance. A few observations…… We were poor ✅ …



“Who Argyle Ya?” – Plymouth at Home in Review


January 19, 2021

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Tiny Acorns FC 0 vs Massive Oaks Forest 1, (Wood, A, 23) Almost 2 years of SAFCBlog now, whilst it was started as a laugh after a German Beer Breakfast on the way to watch SAFC destroy Walsall 2-1 at …



Plymouth, (H)…. Reprise, Revisited, Encore, More….


January 18, 2021

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The Internet is a global carry on, feedback is a positive, SAFCBlog is perhaps read from Costa Rica to Cape Town….. anyway a Pompey fan from Cramlington was kind enough to point out a glaring omission in the Plymouth Preview…… …



Plymouth at Home in Preview……


January 18, 2021

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Optimism is normally met with disappointment when it comes to SAFC, but I’m hugely confident that we will beat these tomorrow night. It’s almost 2 years since they came to the SOL and we won 2-0, this match was notable …



1pm Wimbledon Cognitive Dissonance Away Days – In Review


January 16, 2021

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Lots has been said and written about whether we should be carrying on playing or not, like most football fans I’m in a state of Cognitive Dissonance towards this subject, but for now The Show Goes On…..Theres loads of games …



Wimbledon Again in Preview……


January 14, 2021

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One downfall of previewing every game is that we play everyone twice, add to this getting stuck in this division for 3 years and then add the fact that we are playing a team we played a month ago, the …



Papa Pizza Port Vale Tuesday Club


January 12, 2021

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I want us to win every time we play, realistically this is not a particularly exciting prospect, but it will go down in the Annals of Time as a SAFC 1st Team fixture, so bring it on! The Associate Members …