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Martin Wanless predicts… Score prediction: Sunderland 2 Brighton 0 Sunderland’s first goalscorer: Le Fee After last weekend’s horror show at Port Vale, the lads have a point to prove, and I can see us turning in a committed and determined display here. We should have a couple of players back from injury, which will help, […]
Charles Murray Buchan, one of the legends of our football club, became the first Sunderland player to captain England, and the 38th player in total to captain the country, when they played Wales at Ninian Park on 14 March 1921. Certainly stranger times then, as the record books show that he only won 6 England […]
The lads will have a big point to prove after last weekend’s shambolic display at Port Vale, and with injury concerns subsiding there should be a bit more to pick from for Regis Le Bris today. While it’s unlikely we’ll see Roefs, Reinildo or Mukiele today, Brian Brobbey and Dennis Cirkin are fit again, and […]
Saturday 14th March 2026 Sunderland v Brighton – Premier League Stadium of Light – Kick-Off: 15:00 Tickets & Match Coverage Tickets: Tickets are sold out. TV/Stream: Full live match coverage is unavailable. Radio: Full live match commentary available via BBC Radio Newcastle (not online) Don’t forget to follow the blow-by-blow account of the game on […]
Jessica Brown’s performance against Nottingham Forest felt like the reward for months of quiet graft, resilience and unwavering professionalism. Her season has been shaped by interruptions, competition and moments where others were preferred ahead of her, yet she’s never once allowed those decisions to dull her edge. Every time she’s been asked to step aside […]
The Premier League is back and we entertain Brighton at the Stadium of Light tomorrow, so we thought that was a good opportunity to catch up with the football finance legend and huge Seagulls fan Kieran Maguire! Coming up… All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so you never miss another episode […]
In a game that was full of drama, badly timed tackles and bizarre goals, Mick McCarthy’s Sunderland were ramping up their promotion push with a 2–0 win over fellow promotion rivals West Ham United at the Stadium of Light. Goals from Kevin Kyle and Jeff Whitley in a fifteen-minute spell midway through the second half […]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve found it canny tough this week getting my head around what I can expect from Sunderland between now and the end of the season. Port Vale was a massive kick in the nuts. I’d genuinely convinced myself that we’d have the stones to go on a cup […]
Since Sunderland first made it back to the Premier League under Peter Reid in 1997, the club has been home to some excellent centre-backs – no, Santiago Vergini, I wasn’t thinking of you. Nor you, Sotiris Kyrgiakos. Nor you, Valentin Roberge. Steve Bould, Jody Craddock, Danny Collins, Wes Brown, John O’Shea, John Mensah, Younes Kaboul […]
There are matches that leave you buzzing; that leave you furious and that occasionally leave you somewhere in the middle, suspended between pride and irritation — and Sunderland’s 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest at Eppleton falls firmly into that final category. It was a night defined by discipline, structure and defensive resilience but also by […]
Gav says… Crucially, it feels great that we now have people at the football club that care about the little details. Obviously, none of this will be coming cheap but these are things that the Stadium of Light has been missing since it was created. It’s always been a fantastic venue, but there was never […]
Happy Thursday, everyone! We can now, I think, try to draw a line under last weekend’s disappointment and instead look forward to (hopefully) happier times with a game against Brighton coming up, so joining us today for a chat is Dom Shaw from The Northern Echo! Coming up… All this and more! Get subscribed to […]
There are matches that feel like checkpoints in a season and there are matches that feel like crossroads — and Sunderland’s trip to The Valley to face Charlton Athletic sits somewhere between the two. It’s not a title decider and it’s not a game that’s taking place during a relegation scrap, yet it carries a […]
European football is an exciting dream for Sunderland fans, but unless you’re of a certain age and vintage, it’s only ever been just that. It’s been 53 years since Sunderland’s last foray into the continent, when we were knocked out in the second round of the European Cup Winners’ Cup by Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon. […]
Gav says… In the podcast that I recorded with Dom Shaw, we actually talked about this and as I said there, I feel like this is a landmark moment in our season. The next two games will probably decide whether we’re going to push on for a finish in the top eight or if the […]
While the daffodils may have been tentatively popping their heads above ground, there was little evidence of spring reemerging in Sunderland’s step as the club tried to successfully navigate the closing months of its first-ever Division Three campaign. After a slowish start that saw just three wins from the opening nine games, the team had […]
Want to have your say on all things Sunderland? Drop us a line and we’ll publish your views! [email protected] Dear Roker Report, Yes, we’re upset about losing to Port Vale in the cup and to have been been ninety minutes away from a Wembley semi-final, but let’s not beat ourselves up about it. It was […]
Hello and welcome to another episode of On This Week, where we take a look back over some of the major and not so major things to have happened in the history of Sunderland AFC over the years. Join Martin, Andrew and Kelvin as they journey back in time to look back on: All this and […]
International breaks often arrive like a pause in the soundtrack of a season. The rhythm of weekly fixtures fades, senior players scatter across Europe and the training ground becomes quieter, more spacious and more reflective. For some clubs, these breaks are simply interruptions; for Sunderland Women, they’ve increasingly become windows of opportunity, and the moments […]
Sunderland Women step into tonight’s clash with Nottingham Forest knowing that the shape of their season could hinge on what unfolds over the next ninety minutes. It’s a fixture that arrives at a pivotal moment in the WSL2 campaign, a stage where momentum becomes as valuable as points and where every performance has the potential […]
Régis Le Bris arrived on Wearside two years, three permanent head coaches and a whole host of players after Sunderland had finally escaped League One, so it’s probably a fair bet that he doesn’t know about and therefore perhaps isn’t burdened by the trauma that four years in the third tier inflicted on our supporters. […]
As a starry-eyed lad, Charlie Hurley and Jim Baxter were my first idols at Roker Park. The more I watched and matured, this changed. Young players like Todd, Suggett, Kerr, Hughes, Park and Tueart caught my attention. One player who was playing in the very first game I saw and played alongside these brilliant youngsters […]
Middlesbrough Women returned to winning ways with a performance that blended control, confidence and a renewed sense of purpose, and at the heart of it all was a young midfielder who looked as though she’d been part of the team for years. Sunderland loanee Emily Cassap delivered the kind of display that can shape a […]
It’s that time of the week again as we answer questions from our listeners on a whole host of topics – so join Chris, Gav and Andrew as they put the world to rights and chat about another crazy few days for Sunderland AFC! All this and more! Get subscribed to Haway The Podcast so […]
In October 2002, a decision that nobody saw coming occurred when Bob Murray appointed Howard Wilkinson as the new Sunderland manager, with a curveball for good measure in the form of appointing the then Stoke City manager Steve Cotterill as his assistant manager. The decision to appoint Wilkinson sparked shock and surprise amongst fans as […]