Stuart Sansome

@kelvmackenzie Ah the editor of the Sun !!! Nothing like a story with no facts, on the anniversary of Hillsborough

Sunderland’s security staff made Spurs fans hand over their phone chargers and small change ahead of Sunday’s game. The chargers were returned, the coins weren’t. Staff said the money would go to Spurs official charity. Mmmm. Giving is voluntary, taking isn’t. Hand it back.

@Capt_Fishpaste Why would you raise this rumour ??

The Brian Brobbey Bayern Munich link raises an interesting question: How much is he worth? Such a unique profile, four years left on his contract, only 24. What Sunderland would want and what Bayern would be willing to pay are, for me, two very different numbers. #SAFC

@TheToonminator0 @RubyQNUFC Nothing like a bouble SGB

@RubyQNUFC Newcastle want players that can play football, we demand a certain level. Sunderland wants Sunday league thugs with no style

Brian Brobbey epitomises everything that is wrong with modern day football. I grew up watching players defined by elegance and intelligence on the ball: the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Dimitar Berbatov, Alan Shearer, Robin Van Persie, Andy Cole and Sergio Aguero. They made the game feel like an art form as much as a sport. Now I have to watch lumps like Brobbey who has nothing more than physicality to his game. He plays like a WWE wrestler, not a Premier League footballer. It’s effective sure, but boy is it painful to watch. It’s the sad reality of where our beautiful game has gone. And it’s why players with more natural talent and technical quality like Nick Woltemade are struggling. Brian Brobbey is the face of this new era and it’s painfully sad.

@davey_lad Not against Marco at all, just seems odd players of the stature like Dave werent

@stuart4swinton at least he was on the candidate list for voting.. Marco wasn't

Jill Scott on #safc legends way. Absolute bollocks..remind me what she's done for Sunderland? Criminal that Marco Gabbiadini isn't in there

@breeallegretti @GWJournalism @SimonBa11 must be busy plotting her leadership challenge in May

Exc with @GWJournalism: Angela Rayner has skipped nearly a third of major votes in parliament since resigning from the government, it has emerged. The former deputy prime minister did not vote 57 times in 185 divisions, after stepping down as housing secretary last September. She was absent from the Commons on at least 13 different dates, covering bills on bus services, local government finance, schools and border security. The Times analysed details of all divisions that have taken place since, counting only those where 150 Labour MPs or more voted to exclude votes where backbenchers were given permission to abstain by party whips. Of the remaining 185 votes, Rayner did not vote in 57 divisions: 30 per cent. She voted “aye” 58 times and “no” 70 times. March 2026 marked Rayner’s highest number of missed votes in her career as a backbench MP, stretching back to 2015. She has the 56th highest absence rate of Labour backbenchers in major votes. A spokesperson for Rayner said: “These absences were authorised in advance by the Labour Whips’ Office in the proper way. Angela has been slipped and paired on a number of occasions due to her other diary commitments as an MP, which is a normal arrangement right across the Commons.” It is understood that none of the absences were for Rayner to be able to attend paid speaking engagements. However, her extra work outside parliament has been privately criticised by some Labour colleagues, who think it is at odds with the stance she took in opposition over Tory MPs’ second jobs.

@ALS_Fanzine Gutless, spineless team, with a deluded fan base, unfortunately the majority know where there problems lie

@SunderlandAFC Any bad performances ??

Another brilliant home win but who gets your Player of the Match vote? 💪

@Deggsytweets @OurSoundMusic3 Its a great track, video in a pub where they started out,

@OurSoundMusic3 Hmm kind of harsh, can see where you’re coming from but not sure I fully agree

The Reytons new tune is a paint by numbers, almost self-parody. A fantastic band who now unfortunately seem to keep rehashing the same song, with weaker, predictable lyrics each time.

@Deggsytweets @Osgoodnb1 Always a broad church of opinions, strong leaders communicate and carry the message, those who want to stay pure/principled get left behind, unfortunately the pot is talentless, the mandelson issue and the way it started and the fall out smell of incompetence, =weak leadership

@Osgoodnb1 @stuart4swinton Labour Party is 2 parties IMO hence why they change direction so often, Starmer has to appease back benchers who are more socialist leaning like most political parties they have become distorted & dare I say corrupted across all parties

Good the UK have abandoned the deal on the Chagos islands. Gross waste of tax payers money. Badenoch saying they fought against it from day one priceless they opens the negotiations in the first place. She is such an idiot history is on the record not made up by lairs.

@Osgoodnb1 @Deggsytweets Cant disagree, the abused, the working man/women along with pensioners must feel like their 2nd class, whilst they run around propping up every rag bag vote catching protest group

@Osgoodnb1 @Deggsytweets When you look at the size of the majority he has, it seems inconcievable that they cant decide whether to twist or stick on many policy decisions eg winter fuel(spiteful), 2 child cap, which i agree with

@casualsdirect Ban

Drums at football — keep them or scrap them?

@Deggsytweets @Osgoodnb1 Another u turn !! How many is that, be interesting to see if they hold the record over such a short period,

@Osgoodnb1 Her constant lack of self awareness is the reason the Tories are doomed & why so many have jumped ship

@Deggsytweets @patrickscottlad Yes, i can see our best XI staying, trust the recruitment will see that becoming our best XX in quality, no drop off

@Deggsytweets @patrickscottlad Scary that the professionals are in charge

All but one club expects us to do the business on Sunday. Do not let us down Sunderland😂

@ALS_Fanzine Travelled from Rotherham for all 3 easter games, shame that team couldnt have stayed up or stayed together for the next season

OTD: SAFC 2-1 MAN U On this day in 1977, Sunderland defeated Manchester United 2-1 at Roker Park in the First Division. Goals from Kevin Arnott and Tony Towers, either side of a Gordon Hill equaliser, earned us the two points and lifted us out of the bottom three. Bob Stokoe had led us to promotion at the end of the 1975/76 season via the Second Division title but he resigned early on in 1976/77 after we opened the campaign winless in our first nine league fixtures. Temporary boss Ian McFarlane was in charge for our first league win, as we beat Coventry City away 2-1 at the end of October. Unfortunately, we only managed one other win during his seven game spell, a 2-1 home victory versus Tottenham Hotspur. That left us occupying 20th place of a 22 team league, the bottom three at the end of the season would be the ones moving down a division. New permanent boss Jimmy Adamson wasn’t able to change our fortunes quickly though, as he failed to win any of his opening 13 matches (including two FA Cup matches against Wrexham) with ten of those games being defeats. In fact this run of games remains our longest ever league goalless drought, nine games without scoring. A Mel Holden winner when we hosted Bristol City in mid-February brought that to a close however, alongside ending our winless streak. Our players then seemingly remembered that football wasn’t like golf and the highest scoring team did in fact win, we found the back of the net 16 times across the next three matches. The wins (all at home) were a 4-0 against Middlesbrough, a 6-1 against West Bromwich Albion and, our biggest win of the season, a 6-0 demolition of West Ham United. These results moved us up to 18th at the start of March, our highest position since we’d been in the same spot as August turned into September. The last fixture of March dragged us back into the danger zone though, a 4-1 loss to Aston Villa. Four points from the next three (this was still when wins put two points, rather than three, on the board) against Queens Park Rangers (a 1-0 win), Newcastle United (2-2) and Leeds United (1-1), wasn’t quite enough to lift us to safety but we were in pole position of the last three to escape the relegation spots. Manchester United were our opponents and they were familiar to us because we’d already faced them four times in the '76/77 campaign. We’d played them once in the league, a 3-3 draw, and three times in the League Cup, two 2-2 draws and a 1-0 defeat. The League Cup back then had replays and second replays. This is how we lined up: Barry Sidall, Mick Docherty, Joe Bolton, Kevin Arnott, Colin Waldron, Jackie Ashurst, Tony Towers, Shaun Elliott, Mel Holden, Bob Lee and Gary Rowell… plus Michael Coady on the bench The first goal of the game came just three minutes in when Joe Bolton sent a low cross into the box. The United defence couldn’t clear it away and Kevin Arnott fired it home. The visitors followed this up with an equaliser on the 15 minute mark, David McCreery was felled in the box and the referee pointed to the spot. Gordon Hill took full advantage. Less than five minutes had elapsed when we found, what would turn out to be, the winning goal. We were awarded a penalty of our own via a foul on Mel Holden. Tony Towers stepped up and scored the spot kick. Sunderland kept control of the game until the break and after that the red half of Manchester were unable to capitalise on several good chances. It was 2-1 to the Lads at full time and things were looking up with six games remaining of the campaign. Two wins and three draws from the next five kept our heads above the water going into the final day of the season but, alas, a final day defeat to Everton, and some late kickoff shenanigans at Coventry, meant we were sent down on the final day by just a one point margin.

@faulknerwolves You on a beach or going

@stuart4swinton Should be plenty in our ends. Everyone will be away for bank w

Disgrace of a performance, that idiot had a month to prepare this team and they serve this garbage up. If he’s still in charge next season god help us

@faulknerwolves Of all the places !!! Trying to get 1 for your place, hoping against hope, all 3k gone

@stuart4swinton Leeds next week pal yes