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Graeme Hedley is best known as a long-term servant at Middlesbrough, but the Black Hall lad did once get a brief outing for Sunderland too – and on his 69th birthday Roker Report looks back on a varied employment career that did then bring him back to the city. Starting at Ayresome Park in 1975, […]
Sunderland stifled by bizarre officiating Anywhere else on the pitch, shoving your opponent in the back results in a foul — so how was it possible for a Bournemouth defender to shove Enzo Le Fée in the back inside the penalty area and get away with it in the first five minutes? It’s particularly frustrating, […]
Ciaran McKenna says… A good away point I would’ve taken a point before the game, given our form and heavy injury list, and coming up against a Bournemouth team that was unbeaten in seven. I thought we played really well in periods of the game and defended terrifically throughout. We definitely earned the point and […]
When trying to sum a game of this nature up — an affair during which an injury-wracked Sunderland performed with the kind of purpose, attacking intent and wholehearted approach that harked back to our displays in gritty encounters during AFCON — it’s tempting to use words such as “pride”, “passion” and “togetherness” as the Lads […]
There’s a particular sense of calm that settles over a team when the right defender steps back into the heart of the backline. It’s not dramatic and it’s not loud, but it’s something steadier, something that spreads quietly through the pitch until everyone around her begins to breathe differently. That’s what’s happened at Sunderland since […]
I’ve never really commented on refereeing standards as well as VAR. I’ve never felt the need to. In the space of 65 minutes at the Vitality Stadium that stance has changed. We know that every club will find themselves on the wrong end of decisions, particularly the ones which are up for debate. When things […]
It’s been a season of three halves so far for Bournemouth… or something like that anyway! First It’s our 400th episode!! Oh… and the Lads drew on the south coast to halt a run of successive defeats with a draw, but a certain official did his very best to stop us taking anything at all! […]
Robin Roefs: 7/10 Made some decent saves today, with one from a free kick and a follow up to a spill being his best efforts, but had a few dodgy moments. Made a good recovery after that spill, but was lucky with a bad touch in the first half and got caught underneath the cross […]
Well, as far as bad days at the office go, Sunday was right up there, and the repercussions will be felt again at 11.15am this morning when the team news is announced. Jocelin Ta Bi, Norid Mukiele, Romaine Mundle and Brian Brobbey all suffered injuries that will keep them out today, alongside Reinildo and Dennis […]
Martin Wanless predicts… Score prediction: Bournemouth 2 Sunderland 0 Sunderland’s first goalscorer: N/A After predicting positive results over recent weeks and getting nowhere, I’m trying reverse psychology on the world this weekend by predicting a defeat, and no goals. We were poor against Fulham last weekend, so we need to bounce back with a display […]
After a run of 11 league games without a win, Bournemouth are unbeaten in 7 – what the key factors behind your upturn in form? I’d say it’s actually quite difficult to pinpoint what has happened specifically, the make-up of the team hasn’t changed too much and if anything we lost some key players to […]
Despite what happened against Fulham, I still believe we’ll avoid relegation this season, so maybe it’s time to turn to what comes next — and what happens to the “model” that’s taken us this far. We know the current model has two major parts: invest heavily in the club’s infrastructure and buy young (and often […]
It took a quick glance at the results from the 2017/2018 season to remind myself why I completely erased this season from my memory. It was a nightmare from start to finish; so bad, in fact, that I would rather watch a film directed by Edward D. Wood Jr (once rated the world’s worst film […]
Saturday 28th February 2026 Bournemouth v Sunderland – Premier League Vitality Stadium – Kick-Off: 12:30 Tickets & Match Coverage Tickets: Tickets are sold out. TV/Stream: Full live match coverage is available via TNT Sports. Radio: Full live match commentary available via BBC Radio Newcastle (not online) Don’t forget to follow the blow-by-blow account of the […]
I have spent the past year watching Sunderland Women navigate something that feels significant yet strangely quiet; a process that’s unfolded mostly behind closed doors but has the potential to reshape the future of the club in a way we’ve not seen before. It’s been a year of conversations, negotiations, pauses, restarts and the kind […]
It’s been a season of three halves so far for Bournemouth… or something like that anyway! First they were great, then they were crap, and now they are great again, so thankfully Alexander Smith from the Bournemouth Daily Echo caught up with us to tell us more! On today’s show… All of this and more […]
Ciaran McKenna says… This isn’t really the news you want to see when going through a slightly rough patch, but there are definitely silver linings. Nordi Mukiele being sidelined is a real shame. His excellent defensive qualities will be a big miss but his attacking output is something that’s seemingly gone under the radar and […]
If you lose three games on the bounce – regardless of who those games are against – there’s going to be a change in the mood around the camp. If the fans are feeling tense and tetchy, you can imagine that the players are too. The defeat to Fulham was demoralising, but not as demoralising […]
I still think about that Sunday as if it is stitched into the inside of my ribs, 18 February 2024. Sunderland Women 4–3 Lewes. Eppleton in the cold, the kind of cold that gets into your fingertips and makes you tuck your hands into your sleeves until the football warms you up from the inside […]
It’s easy to look back on Sunderland’s 87-88 season as a positive one all told, and ultimately it was – but it wasn’t all plain sailing. Last week, I wrote about Sunderland’s 2-0 win over Brentford as Denis Smith’s team looked to cement its place at the top of the Third Division – a victory […]
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‘Back to basics’ was the way Alex Neil described his approach to getting a victory at the DW Stadium as Sunderland cruised to a win against a Wigan Athletic team that had only lost one game in the previous four months. This was a significant win for a Sunderland side trying to get their promotion […]
Anthony Gair says…Enzo Le Fée I’ll go with the easy one: I think we’re currently watching the greatest set of technical footballers ever to set foot inside Sunderland’s stadium. Saying that, Le Fée is by far and away the greatest technical footballer I reckon I’ll see play in red and white in my lifetime. In […]
Football seasons are rarely smooth. They twist, stall, surge and stutter in ways that can either help or hinder a team’s rhythm — and for Sunderland Women, the timing of this latest international break could hardly feel more frustrating. It arrives just as the Lasses have rediscovered their spark, after producing one of their most […]
OK, it didn’t look great. In fact, it looked terrible as Sunderland were hit by a late Fulham counter-attack as they sought an equalising goal during Sunday’s chastening affair, with Alex Iwobi finishing off a slick move and prompting swathes of home fans to make for the exits, leaving a sea of red and white […]