Soapbox: when a goalscoring Chelsea groin made us groan

When did we last sign a player from Inter Milan? That’s an easy one – never. We have now, with the arrival of Sulley Muntari from the San Siro. 

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Soapbox: Blackpool rocks, Bent saga rolls on

With a long wait before our next game, we must now endure a week of speculation about comings and goings (surely Ricardo Fuller, a sub more often than he starts at Stoke, is not really demanding £60,000 a week as reported today; what will Mr Bent make of that?).

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Taxi (or Hearse?) for Grant

Avram Grant, ‘the dead man walking’ manager of West Ham Disunited, has been given an apparent stay of execution by the hierarchy at the club.

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Soapbox: Blackpool illuminate the Stadium of Light

Any hope that meek capitulation at Old Trafford would at least be followed by six home points was swept away in a torrent of missed chances against Blackpool.

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Mid-term reports : good dreams, bad dreams

 

Recently I saw the Christopher Nolan film Inception. 

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Alan Shearer is legitimate

 

Not the most popular statement a Sunderland supporter can make here, and directly at odds with the first line of the song, but it is the season of goodwill …

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Salut! Sunderland

  

Here we are, getting closer to the halfway point of the season and the Cats are, give or take a place, two-thirds of the way up the Premier League table and only 10 points behind Manchester Untied.

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