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Italian Defender In The Sights Reports in Italy claim Sunderland are tracking Parma’s Argentine defender Mariano Troilo, with the Black Cats said to be in discussions with the player’s entourage to ‘gather information and understand any room to manoeuvre’. The 22-year-old has quickly become an important part of the Parma team after breaking through earlier […]
Goooooood morning Sunderland! Join the Lads as they give their views on all the latest news emanating from our beloved football club, including: All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free daily show. Want to get in touch with us? You can drop us […]
Sunderland returned to action down in the Black Country after a dismal showing against Nottingham Forest. Facing an already-relegated Wolves side who were already playing with next season in mind, how did yet another set play take away the opportunity to add three more points to the away tally for the season? Sunderland lineup With […]
Another debatable point from Dan Ballard’s sending off — apart from the ‘hair tug law’ itself — was the intervention of VAR. At that point in the match, Sunderland were leading 0-1, were in control and looking like we were going to cash in against the bottom and already relegated side in the table. The […]
It was the morning after the night before. Sunderland were waking up as a relegated club, after a defeat at Leicester sealed a fate that had looked increasingly likely as April progressed. The Milk Cup run had perhaps taken some attention away from the league danger that was never lurking too far away, and the […]
Today’s show is brought to you in association with Saily. For more details on today’s special offer, go to saily.com/haway, and remember to add in the discount code of haway to get 15% off. Once again, you brilliant people have sent in some cracking questions for us to attempt to answer! So Andrew and Ant […]
Despite a fighting draw in our last game at Roker Park against the Busby Babes, we came into this match sixteenth in our third top-tier season since promotion in 1963/64. It had been a season with Ian McColl at the helm that had flattered to deceive, with the jury still out on the Baxter plan […]
The dismissal of Dan Ballard in the 24th minute of Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Wolves brought up a huge point for debate. In the immediate aftermath of the game, there were a fair number of our fans who, despite having not seen the footage of the incident at the point, seemed to be of the […]
Establishing yourself as a successful Sunderland head coach/manager is not, never has been and never will be merely a question of possessing the appropriate level of tactical nous, efficient use of overlapping full backs or of making substitutions at the right time. Those attributes help, of course, but in my opinion, the question of personality […]
Welcome to a special episode of Haway The Podcast as we celebrate the 53rd Anniversary of the FA Cup win in 1973. We’ve dug through our archives and found Kelvin’s recollections of the game – a memorable day! Sit back and enjoy our master storyteller recounting his efforts to get to Wembley – and how […]
Still reeling from the shocking, humiliating and generally bizarre thumping at the hands of Nottingham Forest, it was time to face our third consecutive Midlands side in the shape of already-relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers. That home loss had felt completely incongruent with the mood around the city before kick-off. The streets had been filled with red […]
Ciaran McKenna says… I’ll be gutted if Cirkin leaves — largely because I love the lad but also because he’s a talented footballer that hasn’t really had the rub of the green, but if you take sentiment out of the situation, you see why he doesn’t look likely to get an extension. For one, his […]
It’s perhaps a mark of the sheer impact made by Granit Xhaka during his time at Sunderland that despite arguably not being at his absolute game-changing best in recent weeks, he still exudes enough in the way of sheer aura to leave nobody in any doubt of his influence, his standing and perhaps most importantly, […]
Want to impress your mates in the beer garden as you raise a glass to the 53rd anniversary of our famous FA Cup win? Look no further… 1. At 5’4”, Bobby Kerr is the smallest captain to ever lift the FA Cup. 2. He did lift it, and promptly dropped it as he descended the […]
Welcome to Haway The Podcast, and today we delve into Don Revie’s time at Sunderland – with the aim of finding out just how close he was to becoming Sunderland manager! In today’s show, Martin and Kelvin look at: We’ll be back next week with Part 2 of the Don Revie and Sunderland story, but […]
Sunderland’s mathematical safety in the Premier League was confirmed with the point at Wolves on Saturday afternoon, yet the potential we’ve seen from what this team can achieve when they put their minds to it has had me lusting for even more recently — and that’s left me in a rather strange position as I […]
Dear Roker Report, Lads, we need you. Last few times we’ve needed a push you’ve driven it. Three huge games, Europe dream faint but alive. Need a fans push/shout/rally for our last three games. Let’s have the SoL bouncing like Coventry, like the Visitors and like so many others for the last two home games. […]
Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Wolves may not have been ‘first on Match of the Day’ material, but it did ensure we’d be kicking off in August as a Premier League club. In the summer, survival was the main aim, with anything more being a bonus. With 35 games played, we haven’t been lower than 13th […]
Strange feeling, this. For the last time we were able to celebrate Sunderland guaranteeing another season of Premier League football as a newly-promoted club, you’d have to go way back to the 2007/2008 campaign as Roy Keane and Niall Quinn’s magic carpet ride climbed to an even higher altitude (or so it seemed at the […]
We’ve done these ‘On This Day’ for around five or six years now, and there are just days where there is an obvious pick to write about, but all of us who contribute to these pieces try to pick out the more obscure game/event from the day, rather than the obvious one if we can. […]
Welcome to Haway The Podcast for our Sunday Supplement show, in which Chris and Martin are joined by The Sunderland Echo’s James Copley to discuss all of the drama from Molineux. On today’s show: All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free daily show. […]
The Red Card In a relatively drab and uneventful 90 minutes, the glaring talking point is the moment the entire match turned on its head: Dan Ballard’s red card in the 24th minute. It was a red card by the letter of the law, that’s pretty hard to dispute. The problem, however, is the law […]
Most of us are told not to pull hair as children, but we are never taught to caveat that with “But what if I’m focusing completely on the ball, ref?” How many playground fights would have been pardoned? How many children have been falsely disciplined, forever tarnished as a dirty hair-puller? Dan Ballard’s sending off […]
Ciaran McKenna says… Sunderland make their point Playing with ten men for seventy minutes isn’t easy and can close a skill gap considerably, but the Lads had to dig in and they did just that. I and many others had this fixture down as a great opportunity to get three points but in retrospect, a […]
Football authorities in England took a lot of criticism following the outbreak of Word War I for not suspending the fixture lists sooner than they did, with the full 1914-15 campaign being completed as normal. Conversely, when the conflict was over, it was understandable that things would take a while to get back to normal […]