Sunderland 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur Premier League 7th April 2012
While a point away at the Stadium of Light is nothing be be ashamed of, Tottenham's failure to
secure all three leaves their Champions League hopes still very much hanging in the balance.
Sunderland 1-0 Liverpool Premier League 10th March 2012
They may have collected some silverware this season, courtesy of a hard-fought Carling Cup
victory over Cardiff, but overall, this season has been a bit of a damp squib for Kenny Dalglish's
Liverpool side.
Sunderland 2-2 Aston Villa Premier League 29th October 2011
Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish was left frustrated after watching his side twice throw away a
lead, with Sunderland's Stephane Sessegnon ultimately nodding home a late equaliser to give
Sunderland a share of the points.
Attempting to achieve better results in the new season, Liverpool doesn't give a convincing
start for their fans as the Reds failed to pick up three points in their opening league game
against Sunderland at Anfield.
Taking the lead in the first half through Luis Suarez's header, Kenny Dalglish's side have to
settle for a point after the Black Cat's equalized in the second half from Sebastian Larsson's
wonderful finish.
Realising belatedly that the new season was quite nearly upon us, Tea and Crumpets panicked,
packed our bags, and rushed off in the general direction of Sunderland in order to get the local
take on the club, their squad, and what we could expect to see come matchday. Luckily for us, we
found a willing conversation partner in the Roker Report's Simon Walsh.
photo courtesy SAFC.com Gardner is a Black Cat | Latest Sunderland News | Team & Transfer News |
Sunderland AFC | Sunderland Steve Bruce has completed the signing of Craig Gardner from Birmingham
City. The Solihull-born 24-year-old joins Sunderland on a three-year contract for an undisclosed
fee, becoming the Black Cats' third signing in just over 24 hours following the acquisitions of
Connor
Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon is winning praise from his teammates after consistent excellent
performances against the Premier League's top strikers.
Gordon just recently was his team's star performer in a win at Blackpool, denying Luke Varney on a
on-on-one and twice acrobatically tipping over efforts from the much wanted Charlie Adam.
This is a fixture that always makes me nervous. I have pretty good reason as well, recent
history goes very much against us. Darren Best alone has scored 4 goals in the past two games
against us, as a team Sunderland have put 9 past us in the last 10 Premiership games against us.
The Stadium of Light is a difficult place to go, Sunderland have lost once at home in the past 18
games.
The police have confirmed that no further action will be taken against Sunderland defender
Titus Bramble, after he and his older brother Tesfaye were both arrested relating
to an alleged rape at the Vermont Hotel in Newcastle city centre last month.
Kenwyne Jones may have moved to Stoke, but Darren Bent is not worried about a potential lack of
goal production. The 26-year-old striker is confident that his new strike partner, Fraizer
Campbell, can easily fill the void left by Jones. Sunderland's leading scorer from last year says
he doesn't mind if Steve Bruce doesn't  sign a new striker because of his confidence in 22 year
old Campbell.
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has reportedly targeted two more midfielders that he
wishes to sign before the transfer window shuts One being West Ham's Valon
Behrami, and the other being Middlesbrough's Adam Johnson.
If the Hammers think that coming back to draw with Arsenal represent the proverbial "turn the
corner" then the good work must be continued with another fine display against Sunderland. Playing
at the Stadium of Light is not an easy task as the Black Cats have very passionate fans which can
prove to be the 12th man for the home side.
Arsene Wenger has his sights set on Sunderland captain Lorik Cana as he aims to bring some bite
to Arsenal's lightweight midfield. Reports from the Sunderland Echo suggest that Arsenal
will do their best to sign the Albanian midfielder when the transfer window opens.
Cana is a new signing at the Stadium of Light having joined the Black Cats over the summer.
Patience is a virtue, and for two of the Premier League's best players, that patience has
finally paid off. The crazy thing about it all? These two players are on the same team! And the
lucky team is Sunderland.
It was just last season that Sunderland were in the heat of the relegation battle.
.Manchester United continued to get results in the final moments of the game, as they overcame an
inspired Sunderland unit to end the game 2-2 at Old Trafford. After a flawless game for Anton
Ferdinand, the Black Cat Man was involved in an own goal when he deflected Patrice Evra's
off-target shot into his own net.
With the clubs poised at a tantalizing 1-1 in the 83rd minute, a black cat streaks across the
Toronto FC half of the field just in front of goal. In the next 10 minutes, Toronto concedes two
more goals to lose the match, a CONCACAF Champions League group encounter, 1-3, to Santos Laguna at
home.
The cats that live in the Internet are leaking onto the world's football pitches again and this
time it was a bad omen for Toronto FC.
Like the Anfield Cat before him (or her), a black cat ran across the pitch in the 83rd minute of
Toronto's CONCACAF Champions League match against Santos Laguna.
Football is the world's game, but like any sport, it's appeal is not fully universal. The
Internet, meanwhile, has proven that two things are more popular than all else: pornography and
cats. And since mixing pornography with football would run against numerous public indecency laws
in various parts of the world, that means football executives have no choice but to add cats to the
game in order to push it to the next level.
In a fortnight of international football in which half of the Lyonnais have gone missing,
selected for their respective international duties, Claude Puel and his staff said they nonetheless
managed to have interesting training sessions with the few souls remaining along the Rhône at the
Tola Vologe training facility, progressively incorporating their returning colleagues.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron apologized for comments he made about the "Justice for the 96"
campaign. A Downing Street spokeswoman claims his words were misinterpreted and he did not intend
to offend victims' families, according to the Daily Mail.
"The Prime Minister regrets if any offence has been caused," the spokeswoman said.
During Prime Minister's questions yesterday, Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree,
urged David Cameron to apologise for what she described as 'grossly offensive' comments about the
ongoing question for justice over the Hillsborough disaster.
liverpool football club anfield
Cameron is alleged to have compared the Hillsborough families' search for closure to a 'blind man,
in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there'.
David Cameron 'regrets' any offence he caused to the families of the Hillsborough victims by
comparing their search for closure to a 'blind man, in a dark room looking for a black cat that
isn't there'.
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Emil Kostadinov no hacÃa muchos goles, pero los que hizo durante su carrera
fueron vitales, por ejemplo el que le anotó a Fracia en el último minuto,
cuando David Ginola perdió el balón vino el rompimiento y el búlgaro clavó el
gol que calificaba a Bulgaria al Mundial de USA 94 y en
automático eliminaba a los franceses en su propio territorio.
More (much) more to come when we're (slightly) sober, but for now, congratulations to Spain for
winning the World Cup! Let's all celebrate by watching Iker Casillas snog the crap out of his
girlfriend, Sara Carbonero.
Basically, here's the translation from Iker: he thanks his parents, his (hot, younger,
French-speaking) brother, and then pauses to shed a tear before also crediting Pastasauce for her
great work in the kitchen on the sidelines.
More (much) more to come when we're (slightly) sober, but for now, congratulations to Spain for
winning the World Cup! Let's all celebrate by watching Iker Casillas snog the crap out of his
girlfriend, Sara Carbonero.
Basically, here's the translation from Iker: he repeats how happy he is about 40,000 times
before he thanks his parents, his (hot, younger, French-speaking) brother, and then pauses to shed
a tear.
There was a point yesterday – just before Sunderland scored their freak goal – when I was
thinking: we need to change this game from the bench, but who can we bring on? We have no quality
on the bench!
Silly me.
All it took was one Ramsey pot shot, one sublime cross from Arshavin and one trademark Henry
finish to prove that Arsène Wenger still knows what he's doing.
