Three attempts at beating the league’s bottom club have passed without success. On every occasion they have come from behind, knocked us out of the F.A Cup and twice levelled the match in the final minutes of the game. All the while Portsmouth has been teetering on the precipice of insolvency and consequent administration. Once again the season is turning into...

  We begin the month of February with our future shrouded in doubt and fear due to our plummet down the league table. The days of defeating Liverpool and Arsenal seem decades ago with 11 games passing us by without a victory to celebrate. Our season seems to be turning into a working example of the law of diminishing returns. Sitting four points away from 18th place...

The first of the “season defining” trilogy of games and hope was beginning to wrap its cold, unforgiving hands around Sunderland fans’ hearts. Blame it on the defence, blame it on the injuries or blame it on Bruce, Sunderland are where they are and need to get out of it quickly. A game against Stoke at home would surely provide brief respite from all the relegation...

Everton away has turned into a forgone conclusion these days with defeat in the minds of most on Wearside. Ten years since a win at Goodison Park being the reason for this and not many thought that run was going to end on Wednesday. There hasn’t been much good news at all lately, but there was finally something to feel optimistic about as Cattermole made his long awaited...

This whole panic surrounding Kenwyne’s future at the club is now getting a little tiring. What baffles me further is some of the fans’ reactions to all of this speculation. The whole situation simply comes down to this: Bruce wants £40 million for him and nobody will pay that for such an inconsistent talent. Add to this the fact that the most interested club seems...

   As seen as though it’s the end of the “noughties” and the beginning of the tens, twenty-tens, whatever they are going to get called; there are ten things I’d like Sunderland (team, fans and club) to sort out starting with the game against the Trotters: 1. Sunderland has a stray dog problem as the joke goes, because they keep throwing       away leads....

A game against non-league Barrow wasn’t the most glamorous way to kick off the New Year, even if minor celebrity Gareth Jelleyman (the one that had the “wobbler”) was playing, but it was a good chance to record a long overdue win. Any thoughts of Bruce resting players and giving some reserves a run out where banished when practically the same 11 that started against...

    After a breathtaking start to the season we seem to be hitting a bit of a rough patch recently – hopefully not giving any signs of a repeat of the woeful second half of the season experienced last year. The game at Blackburn cruelly showed our lack of depth at the club with the bench consisting of mainly teenagers with no first team appearances. With the January...

After 4 points from a possible 24 on the road, Lorik Cana has spoken of his anger at the strange inability of the team to perform on the road as they do at home. Talking to the Chronicle, Cana said that the team only had themselves to blame for the 1-0 defeat at Fulham on Sunday: “It is frustrating. After a lot of away defeats itm is not easy to understand the difference...

  Housewives and girlfriends alike will hastily concur when I say that in recent times season ticket holders must have acquired a degree of insanity as our breed will nonchalantly conform to months of pitiless torture which we consider worth a few hundred quid. In essence it’s not logically viable to attain the understanding of 25,000 people eager to purchase a pass...