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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail...

Nottingham
Joined March 2009
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Made into @NetflixUK documentary on my football club, “Sunderland Til I Die” @Fulwell73 have done a great job with it even with me making the slow motion scene 😂 #SAFC #ExiledMackem #RedNose
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Xhaka 👀 #SAFC
This season’s Premier League midfielders (2026/27, league games only): deep-lying playmaking vs creating. Rice is the best overall, Iwobi the top creator
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Rotos de dolor, con un nudo en la garganta y sin poder creer que esto sea verdad, desde el CD Tenerife comunicamos el trágico fallecimiento, este martes, día 3 de noviembre de 2026, a las 8:00 horas, de Jesús de Miguel Alameda. No hay palabras de consuelo; no hay absolutamente nada que mitigue este sentimiento repleto de tristeza. Estamos junto a su desolada familia, junto a sus seres queridos, junto a todo el tinerfeñismo que hoy llora por este cruel desenlace. La familia de Jesús de Miguel agradece todas y cada una de las muestras de apoyo recibidas, e igualmente solicita, de corazón, máximo respeto a su privacidad, en estos terribles momentos. 🖤 DEP
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We have the 8th most big chances in the league. We’ve missed 74% of them. Astonishing #SAFC
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Jobe Bellingham vs Bayern (A)
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Instead of such negativity please help us share love and positivity by sharing my beautiful boys picture ♥️ #CancerHasNoColours bradleyloweryfoundation.com
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How can you go from relatively decent performances against Brentford, Arsenal and Man City into absolute donkeys since? Was relatively relaxed on the back of those games but it’s been a clusterfuck since HAVE to reward solo performances with opportunities to start games #SAFC
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It’s the standard of goals we’re conceding… It’s just so, so poor. Individual errors, lack of effort to make up for a mistake, sloppy in possession, silly red cards. We’ve gone from one of the best drilled and most organised defences in the league, that was the bedrock of a side that took points off 18 of 19 opponents last year, to one of the worst.
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Six goals from individual errors this season in the Premier League… #SAFC
Replying to @JamesCopley_
How many goals this season is our own team going to assist the opposition it’s every week feels like
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Not for the first time this season, Granit Xhaka has been a passenger off the ball this afternoon. He’s far from the only one at fault, but his performance has been well below the standard you’d expect from Sunderland’s captain. #SAFC
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Luke O'Nien made 16 clearances against Leeds, the second-most by any player in a Premier League game this season. 11 of those were with his head, with no player recording more in a single match. 🧹
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Le Bris and Sunderland might be 20th as it stands but they reduce games to fine margins and excel in all game-states as they press man-to-man high, defend zonally low, can build against a zonal press or play direct against a man-to-man press, and attack well in a 3-1-6 with decent quality + profile balance across the thirds. Combine that with the support of the fans at the Stadium of Light and I don’t expect them to be relegated this season. I actually back them to go far in Europe and to stay up comfortably. They have a talented and big squad, even if the summer window just gone was a little underwhelming.
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Singing for Talbi when Angulo was having a good game 🤢 #SAFC
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😂 Two Sunderland fans in the Lech Poznań end. Absolute madmen. Anyone know who they are? #SAFC
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Lost phone found in Poznan. Obviously a Sunderland fan. We’ve got it, please let us know.
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That’s that then… Mass Effect was one of my favourite games… was wondering why it was so quiet on updates since the reveal of early development #n7day #bioware #masseffect
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"It depends about what we really want, and this starts in training because we don't do enough, and after you can see it on the pitch."
"Maybe we became arrogant." "We struggle everywhere." Nordi Mukiele shares his honest views after Sunderland's defeat to Bournemouth 🗣️
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Danso bullied twice in 15, conceded and sent off Alderete ducking No outlet at all For fucks sake #SAFC
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WHAT A GOAL. WE HAVE THE LEAD IN STOPPAGE TIME!
NOAH SADIKIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! 🤯
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Enzo Le Fée lost his father to suicide in 2021. For World Mental Health Day, we asked the @SunderlandAFC midfielder to share some advice with his younger self...
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