Our season so far…

Every year a team that the pundits insist is ‘too good to go down’ ends up scrapping for its life in a relegation dogfight. This year it could be us. Is this an overly-pessimistic view? Am I blowing a few poor results out of proportion? No, I don’t think so. Let’s examine the facts. We [...]

Newspaper round-up: Sunderland v Fulham

To be honest I couldn’t bring myself to post anything yesterday. Despite gaining a point away, the manner in which we lost the chance to haul ourselves clear of the relegation dog fight was thoroughly depressing, yet weirdly predictable…Anyhow, here is how the main news outlets saw our match against the Black Cats…
Roy Keane has [...]

Sunderland v Fulham: A reaction

When I watched Paul Merson on Sky’s Gillette Soccer Saturday breathlessly describe how David Healy had missed a totally open goal I knew the writing was on the wall. Not even when Simon Davies put us 1-0 up with a free kick did I think we’d be able to hang on; nor when the Black [...]

Collins John scores!

It’s 3.20pm on Saturday and news has reached me that Collins John has put Leicester 1-0 up at home to Barnsley. Good stuff eh? Hopefully he’ll return from his three month loan in the Midlands rejuvenated and start banging in the goals for the first team…

Preview: Sunderland v Fulham

Facing Roy Keane on a football pitch must have been one of the scariest prospects imaginable. But how will coming up against his team compare? Well, our boys will find out later today when they travel to the Stadium of Light to take on Premier League ‘new boys’ Sunderland.
On paper it certainly doesn’t seem a [...]

Interview: Sunderland fans

We caught up with three Sunderland fans for a quick Q&A session ahead of this weekend’s match at the Stadium of Light. Our grateful thanks to author Jeff Scott (JS) at http://www.methanolpress.com/; Jim Higginson (J) of the Black Cats of America and Judith Hood of the Sunderland AFC Supporters’ Association (JH) for their time.
Q. How [...]

Morning all

How are we feeling? Anxious? Upbeat? Confident? Miserable? I think it’s fair to say most of us have experienced the full set of emotions over the past few days. When I posted my match report I was feeling particularly down so how about now? Well, to be honest, not much different.
There is even the news [...]

Newspaper round-up: Fulham v Derby

Here is how the major news outlets saw our draw at home to Derby:
Billy Davies should have celebrated Derby’s first away win but 10-man Fulham survived an onslaught – so he had a pop at Lawrie Sanchez instead, according to Antony Kastrinakis in The Sun. “Amazingly Cottagers boss Sanchez claimed Fulham outplayed Derby in the [...]

Fulham v Derby: The Post Mortem

I have added three posts about yesterday’s game. Please follow the links to read these pieces and it would be great to hear your views as well.
My opinion of the match – click here
Player rankings – click here
Niemi’s brilliance – click here

Fulham v Derby: Player Rankings

Here’s how I rated our players:Niemi – 10/10Absolutely outstanding display. I simply cannot give him anything other than a 10 because that was a faultless display. He is the reason why we managed to salvage anything from the match.
Baird – 8/10Superb. A very confident, assured display. Great defending and even managed a thunderbolt shot which [...]