Aiden McGeady
It’s the close season and not much happening…. then your best player signs a new deal on, (reportedly), 50% of his current earnings… We all know that certain players earn plenty and it could be argued that playing footie is…
South Shields v Sunderland Match Report
South Shields v Sunderland match report After the the abject misery of the Charlton defeat, all of a sudden its time to go again with the first pre-season friendly South Shields v Sunderland. Anyone reading this regularly will know; I…
Winning League One ~ Part 2/2.
Winning League One – Part 2/2. Having predicted Sunderland will be winning League One next season and following on from the ‘how and why’? (Part 1). Welcome to Part 2/2. Last week, 6 key areas were cited….Being Braver, Duncan’s fitness,…
6 Key Elements to Sunderland winning the league one.
Since starting SAFCBlog on March 16th, this is the 75th article, I’ve had 6, (six), positive comments in that time, so all is well. Media team inundated with communication last 24 hours: Drew Peacock of Carshalton said, “this blog is…
Decent Away games ~ Norwich City 2015/16
Norwich Away – Decent Sunderland games revisited We’ve already looked at the wonderful conclusion to this season with the reviews of the wins over Chelsea and Everton. In this post we look back at great 3 – 0 away win…
Decent games ~ Arsenal Away 20/05/15
SAFCBlog is preparing for a visit to Portugal, every good blog needs a decent flag? Weather decent last few days, so limited communications to the media team at safcblog1@gmail.com; regular contributor C. Greenwoods has been in touch to say, “I’m…
Decent games revisited – Portsmouth play offs
Regular readers, (I know, I know), of this blog, will be aware I’ve been sceptical of Stewart Donald from day 1. Not the time to offer an opinion ~ but things don’t look good? Transparency is a nice idea…. but…
Pre season vs SC Heerenveen Match preview
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%…
Decent games revisited ~ making it six in row vs Newcastle.
5 weeks ago today, we were losing to Charlton at Wembley…. looking ahead, in 5 weeks today we’ll be looking back on the previous afternoons 1~1 hammering of Oxford. Communications to the SAFCBlog media team very quiet; we put this…
Decent Sunderland games revisited ~ Newcastle Away
Part 5 of ‘decent Sunderland games revisited’ – Newcastle away. You can read parts 1 to 4 starting here. Beat Newcastle 3~0 at the Wonga Dome twice, but the 1~0 was just perfect. Fully appreciate that it’s hard to be…
