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Sunderland travelled down to the South Coast for their first league meeting at the Amex Stadium on Saturday as the festive fixtures took hold. With several departures away to the AFCON, how did Le Bris shuffle his pack and really put pressure on Fabian Hürzeler to earn yet another well-deserved point on the road? Sunderland […]
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This would prove to be Sunderland’s biggest win of the season as Sunderland battered their Black Country rivals with goals and performances all over the pitch. The Sunday Sun reported in its Christmas Day edition that Sunderland’s left-hand side (Harry Martin and debutant Hawes) gave a sparkling display, with Mitton shining by virtue of his […]
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Lutsharel Geertruida has impressed so far this season, proving himself to be a talented, versatile and useful footballer. He’s played in thirteen games for us, starting six of them and coming off of the bench in seven. In fact, he’s only been an unused substitute in one game — the Wear-Tyne derby. This highlights his […]
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When considering the frankly staggering rate of progress that we’ve seen at Sunderland in recent times, one game I often use as a barometer is our 1-2 home defeat to Swansea City during the turbulent “season of three head coaches” — 2023/2024. Under Mike Dodds, we were — to put it mildly — bloody awful […]
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There are forwards who score goals and there are forwards who seem to carry goals with them, as if stitched into their stride and waiting to be released at the slightest invitation. Emily Scarr belongs firmly in the latter category — a player whose evolution over the past few seasons has been one of the […]
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Santa hats and loud Christmas jumpers were the order of the day, and the cloudless blue winter sky matched the jubilant mood on the early Thameslink service from Finsbury Park as we shared stories of how we celebrated Nick Woltemade’s hilarious act of charity. The proximity of this game to Christmas and the long journey […]
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It’s Christmas 2025, Sunderland are sat sixth in the Premier League with 27 points from 17 games, we have international players away representing their countries in the Africa Cup of Nations, we still have enough top-class players in our squad to draw away to an established Premier League team like Brighton – and our nearest […]
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For those seeking last-minute gift ideas, the 23 December 1950 edition of The Football Echo carried adverts for sporting equipment from Binns and mouth organs from Bergs of Crowtree Road, but the majority of readers were focused on the mood of Sunderland’s favourite cartoon character — and thankfully for them, the “Footy Echo Man” was […]
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From the moment Hannah Greenwood walked into the Academy of Light during the summer, there was a quiet sense among those inside Sunderland AFC Women that they’d signed a defender who would not only strengthen the back line but also reshape its personality — not through noise or theatrics, but through the kind of calm, […]
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In a speech of July 1957, one of the last Tory grandee prime ministers, Harold Macmillan, coined a phrase, “we’ve never had it so good.” I was flicking through Twitter this afternoon, and that video of Tommy Watson stroking that goal home reappeared on my feed. For some reason seeing that again for the umpteenth […]
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Join Gav, Jonny and Ant as they answer all of this week’s questions from the lovely listeners of Haway The Podcast, including… All of this and more – get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free daily SAFC show! This episode of Haway The Podcast is sponsored by LiveScoreBet, […]
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On a cold day in the North East, this was a match that laid bare both Sunderland’s slow but growing resilience and the fine margins that define the WSL. Ipswich may be anchored to the bottom of the table but they refused to play the role of obliging visitors. Instead, they pressed, disrupted and very […]
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Sunderland’s game against Brighton on Sunday signified the start of a large portion of the squad’s absence at the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. Expectations and predictions have been loud this season. The media has been all too happy to tell us what they think our fortunes will look like. First, we were relegation fodder […]
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December 2023 saw Sunderland’s form falter and popular manager Tony Mowbray depart the club. The search for a new head coach took a couple of weeks, and the hierarchy appointed a man who apparently no one on Wearside wanted- Michael Beale. His tenure will go down as one of the worst, most depressing in recent […]
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It was a fairly emphatic declaration of frustration from Getafe president Angel Torres, who summed up the scale of his club’s loss and Sunderland’s gain in one simple sentence. We’ve given away Omar Alderete — one of the best centre backs in La Liga — to a newly-promoted Premier League club for peanuts just so […]
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Niall Quinn’s arrival at Sunderland was exactly what was required at the time, and it was generally a good time to follow the Lads around the country – but looking back now, it was a big era of false dawns. We thought we’d cracked it with Roy Keane and he was given more money than […]
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Good morning and welcome to a festive episode of Haway The Podcast, where we take a look back at some of the key events that have taken place on this week in the course of Sunderland history. Join Martin, Kelvin and Andrew as we look back on: This episode of Haway The Podcast is sponsored […]
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Join Chris and Martin as they are joined by James Hunter to look back on Sunderland’s excellent point at the Amex Stadium yesterday. On the agenda today: • A point gained or two dropped? • AFCON changes – is this the team we’ll see over the next few weeks or will there be more changes? […]
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Strong Sunderland pressing sets the tone From the first five minutes, it was clear to see that Brighton were well drilled, with a quick pace and high-pressure pressing game. However, Sunderland responded well, passing around in intelligent triangles and allowing the home side very little time on the ball. One thing that’s been impressive this […]
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As the festive season approaches and the FA Women’s Championship prepares to pause for the Christmas break, Sunderland Women face a defining moment in their campaign. Today, they welcome Ipswich Town Women to Eppleton CW for what could be a season-shaping fixture — not just the final game of the calendar year, but a “six-pointer” […]
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Sunderland were solid if not spectacular during the first Football League season since the end of World War II, and their final game before Christmas saw them maintain their mid-table position with a credible away win at Bolton Wanderers. The Burnden Park pitch required large quantities of sand to be spread to make it playable, […]
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As a fan of a newly-promoted side (albeit a side that’s done superbly well thus far and is clearly striving to harvest as much success from the 2025/2026 season as possible), I’ll defend the following maxim to the nth degree: a point and a clean sheet away from home against an established and always-tricky Premier […]
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Calum Mills says… Breaking the “curse of the third kit”! For fifty five to sixty minutes of the game, we were the better side. I thought hitting the bar early on in the second half was a sign of things to come, but not long after that we dropped off — but we finally got […]
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It’s a game of two halves and this was a perfect example as the Lads dominate the first half and are required to defend in the later stages to take a well earned point at Brighton – Andrew, Jonny & Chris talk through it all… On today’s agenda: All of this and more – get […]
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Robin Roefs: 7/10 Made a good save in the first minute but not really tested following that, typically calm though and made some good claims from high balls. Nordi Mukiele: 8/10 Had a difficult game up against some tricky wingers but there’s no doubt that he came out on top against them. Even set up […]
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