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Welcome to this week’s Sunderland news roundup, and with the summer approaching us the transfer stories – both mad and, well, slightly believable – are already coming thick and fast! Join Gav and Andrew as they chat all about the latest SAFC news, including: All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so […]
Dear Premier League: An Open Apology From Sunderland AFC, Before the final ball of our first season back is kicked on Sunday afternoon, Sunderland AFC would like to take a moment — with characteristic Wearside humility — to issue a formal apology for the 2025/26 campaign. In our defence: we didn’t mean to do any […]
Sunderland returned to the Hill Dickinson Stadium for the second time this season (following their FA Cup tie back in January) looking to replicate the result on the final away day of the 2025/2026 season. With the prospect of European football for next season quickly fading into the distance, Sunderland required a win to keep […]
After Wilson Isidor applied the gloss to Sunderland’s 1-3 away victory over Everton on Sunday, slotting the ball neatly into the bottom corner of the Toffees’ goal after a swift attack and potentially confidence-boosting assist from Habib Diarra, there was almost as much focus on his ‘cupped ear’ celebration as there was on the goal […]
More often than not, managers today have somewhat fleeting relationships with clubs; they come, they go, often interchangeable, if not indistinguishable. Go back 100 years or so, and it was a very different landscape for what were then termed ‘secretary managers’. For the first time in 23 years, Sunderland had been on the lookout for […]
It’s the final away game of the season, and Sunderland travel to Everton’s brand-spanking new for the second time! We speak to Stephen Hornby from The Toffee Blues to find out about their season and his thoughts on the game! On today’s show… All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you […]
It’s the Hill Dickinson Stadium, it’s 23 minutes into the first half against Everton and the Big Guy from Paraguay, Omar Alderete, is struggling to continue. There are options for Régis Le Bris to consider – Trai Hume is playing an advanced role and could drop into defence. That would allow either him or Lutsharel […]
Argus had tracked and reported this story with some enthusiasm in the Sunderland Echo in the spring of 1955. It was not the first time he had committed to print to tell readers the club were chasing the signature of “this great player”. Sunderland were known as the Bank of England club in the 1950s. […]
Sunderland’s first season back in the Premier League has thrown up some memorable away days. Across nineteen league fixtures, there have been a couple of very disappointing afternoons where the Lads really didn’t turn up — but set against that have been some outstanding performances when the team has gone onto opponents’ turf and more […]
If one hallmark of the longtime Sunderland fan is a lingering sense of pessimism and a worry that we can’t enjoy the heady times and the memorable moments without being shadowed by an imminent sense of doom and feeling vulnerable to a sudden downturn in fortune, what of the emotions we’re all doubtless feeling at […]
Granit Xhaka has not been short of praise this season for his performances in a Sunderland shirt — not just from our fans, but from supporters of other clubs and pundits who have watched on and admired the brilliant job that he’s done as the captain of our team. One of those pundits that he’s […]
We all know and love Gary Bennett – but how much do we know about his football career before Sunderland? In this episode of Roker Rewind, Martin, Chris and Andrew take a look at: All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free daily show. […]
Well, if you had told me one year ago that in 12 months time we’d be going into the last game of a Premier League season with a chance of claiming a European place I would’ve looked urgently for the fellas in white coats to get you locked up pronto. But here we are. In […]
It’s hard to believe that this incredible season is nearly over. The last twelve months since that incredible, transformative play-off campaign seem to have passed in the blink of an eye and, as always with Sunderland, there has been no shortage of highs and lows. With just two fixtures remaining and a decent-sized points gap […]
Want to have your say on all things Sunderland? Drop us a line and we’ll publish your views! [email protected] Dear Roker Report, What a great final away day on Merseyside. Full credit to the Everton fans and the club in remembering Bradley Lowery. The banner before kick-off was a great tribute and I’m sure Bradley […]
This coming weekend, the sun will shine, the clock will strike 4:00pm and Sunderland will embark on their most important game in a generation — a mere twelve months after their last generationally important game. Sunderland have never done things easily. We’ve never done things normally and yet again, we’re exposed to a season that, […]
Bloody hell. This was five years ago. It feels like a lifetime, and in some ways, it feels like it didn’t happen at all. If you had told us a few years before this that Sunderland would be getting beaten in the third-tier play-offs by Lincoln City, at the end of a season behind closed […]
Jason Jones from the Sunderland Echo joins Gav and Martin for a chat about Sunderland’s win against Everton, which keeps our hopes of qualifying for Europe alive right until the final day of the season! All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free daily […]
It’s a strange quirk of Sunderland’s 2025/2026 season that many of our away wins have carried extra weight — either in terms of building momentum, sending a message and in the case of this latest impressive outcome, keeping the Lads on track for what would surely be one of the most extraordinary achievements in our […]
Another blue-riband away day for the Lads When Sunderland fell behind to Merlin Röhl’s (what a name, by the way!) deflected strike at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Sunday — the goal coming at the end of a half during which we’d played some good football without finding the killer touch or the dead-eye finish […]
Alex Charlton says… Sunderland fight back impressively After the first half, I did worry that the game would peter out into nothingness, but yet again the Lads fought back and the most points picked up from losing positions tells you everything you need to know about this team. You can never write them off — […]
It’s the morning after the day before, and for the first time since Sunderland AFC were founded and introduced to the Football League, fans were waking up as fans of a club in the third tier of English football. After relegation from Division One in 1985, Lawrie McMenemy surprised the football world by leaving his […]
The Lads have picked up points from losing positions all season and for the final time on the road this year, we’ve don it again! A brilliant turnaround at Everton sees Sunderland take all three points and Ant & Bomber join Chris to give their reaction! On today’s show… All this and more! Get subscribed […]
Robin Roefs: 7/10 Didn’t have an awful lot to do today with Everton very rarely threatening but stepped up when it matter with a brilliant scramble across his goalline to get something on what should have been an equaliser. No chance with the opening goal after it took a big deflection. Lutsharel Geertruida: 7/10 Tidy […]
Sunderland take on Everton this afternoon at the Hill-Dickenson Stadium in what is our final away game of the 2025/2026 Premier League season, so join us as we chat all about it! On today’s show… All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free daily […]