SalutSunderland – A Fans’ Blog about the Football Club from Sunderland https://salutsunderland.com Blog by Sunderland fans, featuring match reports, stories, and opinions from the stands. Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Overview Sunderland Football Club https://salutsunderland.com/overview-sunderland-football-club/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:27:18 +0000 https://salutsunderland.com/?p=39 Sunderland Football Club is part of the fabric of English football. Since its founding in 1879, it has gone from working-class fields to the biggest stadiums in the Premier League. Its history is a chronicle of perseverance, tradition, and the struggle for identity against a backdrop of change. Early triumphs and titles Before World War […]

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]]> Charlie Mavren’s Biography – from Journalist to Consultant https://salutsunderland.com/2019/02/the-charlie-methven-who-are-you-1-oxford-united-heart-vs-sunderland-heart/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:44:44 +0000 https://salutsunderland.com/?p=33 In the history of Sunderland Football Club, it is difficult to find a figure as controversial as Charlie Mavren. He did not coach, score goals, or escort star agents around the stands. But in the most difficult times, he became one of those who prevented the club from disappearing into the gray zone of League […]

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]]> In Memory of Bob Cass https://salutsunderland.com/2016/11/bob-cass-rip-canny-bloke-top-football-writer/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:39:12 +0000 https://salutsunderland.com/?p=25 In November 2016, sports journalism lost one of its key figures. Bob Cass, one of the most recognizable reporters in English football, passed away at the age of 79 after a long illness. He wrote about football, felt football, knew it from the inside out, and knew how to convey that intimacy to the reader […]

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]]> The history of Goodison Park in the golden 60s https://salutsunderland.com/2015/11/goodison-park-not-quite-welcome-back-to-the-sixties/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:34:34 +0000 https://salutsunderland.com/?p=17 Goodison Park was the first stadium in England explicitly built for football and is the only one that still has four two-story stands. Behind its understated architecture lies a history of drama, victories, and human triumph. It was here that the Sunderland football club played many of its most memorable matches. This was especially true […]

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]]> Phil Bardsley – Legendary Defender for Sunderland Football Club https://salutsunderland.com/2011/05/bravo-bardo-a-winner-four-times-over/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:28:56 +0000 https://salutsunderland.com/?p=10 Sunderland Football Club signed Phil Bardsley in January 2008. At the time, the transfer fee seemed modest, at just £850,000. But over the next six years, he became one of the most reliable and combative players of his era. The defender was not always in the headlines; objectively, he gave journalists little reason to write […]

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