Recent content by Rob Roy

Absolutely staggering that a message board with hundreds of members and not one of you has mentioned Catenaccio football - which is as old as the hills and finds its roots way back in the 1930's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenaccio Defensive football with counter attacking intent was made...

Absolutely everything was in your favour - yet your players and your manager made a complete balls of it. Now your crying on because "little old Sunderland didn't play properly. They played all defensive and we didn't want them to do that". You were beaten fair and square. You can have no...

You mean you had 75% possession in both games and promptly lost because your players couldn't score goals and couldn't defend properly. You thought you just had to turn up to win - that much was obvious. Sunderland are seemingly shite - well if that's the case it doesn't say much for CCFC...

You thought you'd won before the first game kicked off but were taught a valuable lesson in footballing humility. We saw your Wembley adverts.

You had 210 minutes to beat us man - and you couldn't do it. Not Coventry's finest effort and probably a couple of games for you to forget. Anyway the game is over and we both move on. We will see you again either next season or the season after.

You were outthought both games. As for outplaying us - you mean we gave you the ball for 75% of the match and asked you to break us down. you made a bad job of it. Don't blame us for your inadequacies. What do you want us to do - put the ball in the net for you? you were the ones with the...

I think it might pay you to start researching some football history. start with Helenio Herrera and Catenaccio football (winning European Cups and Italian league titles) then move on to Mourinho's masterclass in knocking out Barcelona when at Inter - Throwback to 2010 - Barcelona & Inter XIs...

Can we just get rid of this "unlucky" tag for coventry please? Throughout footballing history defensive styles have won over other styles, notably Herrera in the 60's who won 2 x European Cups and 3 x Italian titles; euro 2004 - Greece who won the euros and of course Mourinho with Porto. It...

Teams have won European cups and League titles playing as Sunderland just have - Helenio Herrera - Wikipedia - and it's a perfectly legitimate way to play football. First half - Sunderland played ok in the first 20 minutes but after that? It could be said that this is where Coventry lost the...

In the 1990 game v NUFC - we drew at Roker Park (we missed a penalty and had the penalty taker sent off for kicking the NUFC goalie in the head) and beat them at SJP. the Newcastle United fans invaded the pitch towards the end trying to get the game replayed but the referee was having none of...

Well let's wait and see what happens when we get back into the top flight (whenever that is). you also have to take into account segregation. there is no way the police would allow the SAFC fans right next to the away fans so given that the capacity is just under 49k the best crowd we could ever...

In the odd season we have averaged what could be termed a full house - Sunderland AFC - Statistics, History and Records - from TheStatCat since Manchester United was in division 2 in season 1974/75 I'm sure that the two clubs with the highest average attendance in the second tier is Sunderland...

It's Sunderland's biggest game for 2 years when we defeated Luton Town in the play offs at home; in front of 46000. The year before we defeated Sheffield Wednesday in the L1 play offs at the Stadium Of Light, in front of just under 45000. You wont be aware but Sunderland has played in the play...

Just as well players do make a mistake or every game ends 0 v 0. Mistakes are part and parcel of the game and the one thing you can be assured is that the lad who made the mistake last night and was distraught - he will have his time in the sun at some point in the future. He will be a hero...

The bookies may well make Sunderland winning a foregone conclusion - haven't seen the odds - but the scenarios one way and another for both teams are so simple that the tie remains in the lap of the Gods. Against Sheffield United this season at the SOL we set up as per last night and won 2 v 1...