Roy Keane Wants to Kung-Fu Kick You in the Face

Sol Campbell's campaign to stop football fans shouting mean things at footballers (particularly big central defenders who left one North London club for another North ...

Tis the Season

Ahead of the Christmas/New Years period, which will see Sunderland play 4 games in 11 days (followed by the FA Cup tie vs Wigan 3 ...

Transfer Rumors: Hunt to Black Cats?

Ahead of Saturday's match at Madejski Stadium, the Sunderland Echo is reporting multiple rumors involving Reading players coming to Sunderland during the January transfer window. As ...

EPL Round 17: Sunderland AFC vs Aston Villa FC

Before this game, most Sunderland fans would have told you that, reasonably, a draw against one of the better teams in the league would have ...

Stolen Points

1-1 draw vs Villa. I'll have more thoughts up later after I get back from shopping for a Nintento Wii (yes!). For now I'll let ...

Transfer Rumors Aplenty

I turned on my computer this morning and was met by an inbox fairly bursting with juicy tidbits regarding the approaching January transfer window (and ...

Chelsea reactions: Terry is sacrosanct; Pizarro is a punk

In the dying minutes of Sunderland's 2-0 loss to Chelsea last Saturday, Liam Miller made a rash tackle on John Terry. The two fell ...

Stokes' reward: Get out!

In the wake of his at-the-death game winner against Derby County last weekend, 19-year old Irish striker Anthony Stokes has been given a rather odd ...

EPL Round 15: Sunderland AFC vs Derby County FC

Woke up late, the game isn't on television anyway. We are currently halftime at the Stadium of Light, the game is scoreless. The statistics -- ...

Six-Pointer

Sunderland will play Derby County tomorrow in a game between newly promoted sides, one which everyone's been calling a "six-pointer." Is this just a ...

Keano: England's Princesses Torpedoed Qualification

Either on the pitch or off it, Sunderland manager Roy Keane has never been one to hide his feelings. Though he may never top his ...

Keane to team: get nasty

Roy Keane. Say the name to most British football fans and you will get one of two responses: One (from Man Utd or Sunderland supporters, ...

SAFC draw 1-1 vs mags; could be worse

It looked like it would be joy on Wearside today after Danny Higginbotham put the good guys up 1-0 early in the second half, only ...

Time to regroup. Again.

Sunday's 3-1 defeat to West Ham was the third in a row for Sunderland, and they haven't won since defeating Reading over a month ago. ...

Roy Keane Ready to go Dutch (or German or Italian or Whatever)

One of the likable things about Roy Keane the manager is that he's always willing hold his hands up and say "my bad." Sunderland's start ...

#1 (through #12) is Optimistic

Slow week(s) for news, eh? International fixtures (yawn) and not a whole lot else while we wait for Sunderland to get back on the ...

Keano's new strategy: Get Points

Sunderland have lost 3 of their last 5 league games. It's fair to say that the Black Cats have played tough in these games, ...

United Rewind: Roy Keane's Departure Sparks a Lively Debate in His Home Country

McShane under scrutiny

Defender Paul McShane's crunching tackle on Alexander Hleb late in Sunderland's 3-2 loss at Emirates last weekend led to a straight red and a three ...

News Roundup

Here's a scattering of information ahead of tomorrow's match vs Blackburn Rovers at the Stadium of Light. Dickson Etuhu will miss this game due to yellow ...

Mackems v Rovers

Rovers face a tough challenge tomorrow at Sunderland. In all honesty though if we are a 'top six' side we MUST beat these teams. It should be ...

EPL Round 7: Middlesbrough FC vs Sunderland AFC

Today sees the resumption of the Wear-Tees derby after a nearly two year hiatus. During the 2005/06 season (following which SAFC were relegated) the ...

Red & White Bootcamp?

Roy Keane is still new to the job of Premiership manager, and he's definitely not afraid to try...unusual things to keep his team's morale and ...

EPL Round 6: Sunderland AFC vs Reading FC

With the players wearing black armbands in memoriam of Ian Porterfield, Sunderland gave their home fans a dominant and inspiring show today, winning 2-1 over ...

Taking a Breath

SAFC is idle this weekend, in the midst of a 2-week international break before Reading FC comes to the Stadium of Light. So with ...

EPL Round 5: Manchester United vs Sunderland AFC

The last time Sunderland visited Old Trafford, in April 2006, they earned a valliant 0-0 draw on a night that also saw them relegated from ...

Psst! Some Guy Called Roy Keane Will be Back at Old Trafford Tomorrow

United will hope to brush aside emotion, to err, brush aside Roy Keane's Sunderland before heading into the two week international break. As expected, Roy Keane ...

Liverpool 2, Sunderland 0

Same old story, different result. The final tally in this match should have been much, much worse as our finishing looked a lot like ...

Liverpool 1, Sunderland 0: halftime thoughts

Congrats to Momo Sissoko who scored his first career goal for Liverpool today. Maybe now this will give him the confidence to be more ...

Liverpool vs Sunderland: the line-up

Reina Arbeloa Hyypia Carragher Finnan Babel Alonso Sissoko Pennant Voronin Torres Subs: Itandje Agger Riise Kuyt Mascherano No real surprises except for maybe Hyypia for Agger. I sort of expect Agger to come in for the second half.