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Want to have your say on all things Sunderland? Drop us a line and we’ll publish your views! [email protected] Dear Roker Report, We’ve been pretty poor for weeks now, bar the odd game. Am I worried? Yes. Is it just a matter of coasting along for the last eight or nine games because it looks […]
Sunderland travelled to Charlton on Sunday with a clear sense of opportunity. The hosts had taken only one point from their previous two matches — both against the league’s bottom sides —and their confidence had visibly dipped after a 1–1 draw with Ipswich Town and a shock 2–0 defeat to Portsmouth. If ever there was […]
It was another frustrating afternoon at the Stadium of Light as Sunderland lost by the only goal of the game to Brighton and Hove Albion. But, as always, there’s a lot to talk about, so Jason Jones from the Sunderland Echo joined us to make sense of it all! On today’s agenda: All this and […]
After a big cup shock last weekend and a visit to ‘the Hosts’ on the horizon, it could’ve been easy to overlook this game against Brighton and Hove Albion, yet this was an important test, with the Seagulls being one of the clubs Sunderland are trying to emulate through sensible recruitment. With relegation already out […]
John Wilson says… A better Sunderland showing Whilst it wasn’t a performance to have us shouting from the rooftops and we didn’t come out of the blocks all guns blazing, it was an improved showing from the last two home games until Chris Rigg’s offside disallowed goal — then everything seemed to go flat. Everyone […]
The Stadium of Light: from fortress to guest house? In the aftermath of Sunderland’s gutsy and memorable 0-0 draw with Manchester City, a Citizens-affiliated social media account was tremendously complimentary about the Lads, highlighting how difficult we were to play against and noting how tough we’d made life for Pep Guardiola’s visitors. How Sunderland could […]
Sunderland’s humbling at Vale Park last week seems to have underlined just how poor the Lads have been in the FA Cup over recent years — yet it’s a competition that holds plenty of fond memories for the club, which for years saw the prize become the ‘Holy Grail’. League champions on multiple occasions and […]
Football has a way of magnifying moments. Ninety minutes can be defined by a single decision, a single slip or in a single second where instinct overrides calculation — and for goalkeepers, that truth is even starker. Outfield players can misplace passes, lose duels or mistime runs without the world collapsing around them, but a […]
A frustrating afternoon ended up in another home defeat for Sunderland, but Gav and the lads still got together after the final whistle to go over it again! On todays show… All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free daily show. Want to get […]
Melker Ellborg: 7/10 Made an absolutely fantastic save with his feet early on, when it looked like Brighton were guaranteed a goal. That was pretty much the only save he had to make, with the goal sneaking in due to being unsighted with van Hecke just in front of him. Was OK with the ball […]
IIIIITTTTT’SSSS MAAAAATCHDAAAAAAYYY! We might have beaten Leeds at their place last time out, but Sunderland are looking to bounce back from our cup humiliation last week and two successive home defeats against Brighton today! Coming up… All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode of our free […]
Like Sunderland, Brighton are safe from relegation, but probably not good enough for Europe – how would you summarise your season so far? Consistent inconsistency has cost us a lot. We’ve had moments where we’ve looked like world beaters, but also moments where it looks like we’ve never kicked a ball before. It has been […]
Martin Wanless predicts… Score prediction: Sunderland 2 Brighton 0 Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Le Fee After last weekend’s horror show at Port Vale, the lads have a point to prove, and I can see us turning in a committed and determined display here. We should have a couple of players back from injury, which will help, […]
Charles Murray Buchan, one of the legends of our football club, became the first Sunderland player to captain England, and the 38th player in total to captain the country, when they played Wales at Ninian Park on 14 March 1921. Certainly stranger times then, as the record books show that he only won 6 England […]
The lads will have a big point to prove after last weekend’s shambolic display at Port Vale, and with injury concerns subsiding there should be a bit more to pick from for Regis Le Bris today. While it’s unlikely we’ll see Roefs, Reinildo or Mukiele today, Brian Brobbey and Dennis Cirkin are fit again, and […]
Saturday 14th March 2026 Sunderland v Brighton – Premier League Stadium of Light – Kick-Off: 15:00 Tickets & Match Coverage Tickets: Tickets are sold out. TV/Stream: Full live match coverage is unavailable. Radio: Full live match commentary available via BBC Radio Newcastle (not online) Don’t forget to follow the blow-by-blow account of the game on […]
Jessica Brown’s performance against Nottingham Forest felt like the reward for months of quiet graft, resilience and unwavering professionalism. Her season has been shaped by interruptions, competition and moments where others were preferred ahead of her, yet she’s never once allowed those decisions to dull her edge. Every time she’s been asked to step aside […]
The Premier League is back and we entertain Brighton at the Stadium of Light tomorrow, so we thought that was a good opportunity to catch up with the football finance legend and huge Seagulls fan Kieran Maguire! Coming up… All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode […]
In a game that was full of drama, badly timed tackles and bizarre goals, Mick McCarthy’s Sunderland were ramping up their promotion push with a 2–0 win over fellow promotion rivals West Ham United at the Stadium of Light. Goals from Kevin Kyle and Jeff Whitley in a fifteen-minute spell midway through the second half […]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve found it canny tough this week getting my head around what I can expect from Sunderland between now and the end of the season. Port Vale was a massive kick in the nuts. I’d genuinely convinced myself that we’d have the stones to go on a cup […]
Since Sunderland first made it back to the Premier League under Peter Reid in 1997, the club has been home to some excellent centre-backs – no, Santiago Vergini, I wasn’t thinking of you. Nor you, Sotiris Kyrgiakos. Nor you, Valentin Roberge. Steve Bould, Jody Craddock, Danny Collins, Wes Brown, John O’Shea, John Mensah, Younes Kaboul […]
There are matches that leave you buzzing; that leave you furious and that occasionally leave you somewhere in the middle, suspended between pride and irritation — and Sunderland’s 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest at Eppleton falls firmly into that final category. It was a night defined by discipline, structure and defensive resilience but also by […]
Gav says… Crucially, it feels great that we now have people at the football club that care about the little details. Obviously, none of this will be coming cheap but these are things that the Stadium of Light has been missing since it was created. It’s always been a fantastic venue, but there was never […]
Happy Thursday, everyone! We can now, I think, try to draw a line under last weekend’s disappointment and instead look forward to (hopefully) happier times with a game against Brighton coming up, so joining us today for a chat is Dom Shaw from The Northern Echo! Coming up… All this and more! Get subscribed to […]
There are matches that feel like checkpoints in a season and there are matches that feel like crossroads — and Sunderland’s trip to The Valley to face Charlton Athletic sits somewhere between the two. It’s not a title decider and it’s not a game that’s taking place during a relegation scrap, yet it carries a […]