Michael Graham
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Sports Journalist, #SAFC fan, Editor at @SAFCNationSI ⚽️ and @Tennishead 🎾
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But they’re definitely, definitely, DEFINITELY not owned by the Saudi state, are they
@premierleague
. The northeast of England is just a very natural place for Saudi Arabia to play Costa Rica and South Korea…
St. James’ Park will host two international friendly fixtures featuring the Saudi Arabia men’s national team in September. 🇸🇦
The Green Falcons will face Costa Rica on Friday, 8 September before taking on South Korea on Tuesday, 12 September.
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I was brought up in Newcastle, surrounded by
#NUFC
fans. Always felt we were largely the same, certainly in terms of social challenges and morals
Breaks my heart a bit to see them aggressively defend human rights abusing murderers because they’re buying them a good football team
Newcastle United fans confronted the sport washing protest group outside St James Park vlog will be on the channel tomorrow
The “NUFC fans against sports washing” refused to be interviewed when asked by me
#NUFC
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Youngest England goalkeeper at a World Cup and the ONLY one to win a World Cup penalty shootout for England. How fucking DARE people question Jordan Pickford’s class?
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Nazariy Rusyn came on, ran around like a nutter, fought like an absolute bastard, got a smack in the face and didn't care, carried on, scored, smiled.
My kind of Sunderland player!
#SAFC
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Dear
@talkSPORT
,
Newcastle is a brilliant, vibrant city, you ignorant f*ks.
Regards,
A Sunderland fan.
🗣️ Danny Murphy: "Newcastle are well-supported but they are NOT a big club."
🗣️
@BroadcastMoose
: 'They get 52,000 fans but what else is there to do in Newcastle!?'
It's a question that has been asked over and over again... Are
#NUFC
a big club? 🤔
[📻
@JimWhite
]
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Jordan Pickford’s unedited fury at his own defenders every time they allow the ball even remotely near his box is truly a thing of national beauty.
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Why have they got to start a fight every time they lose? 😂😂
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Indeed. All you really need is
• Unlimited blood money
• Human rights abusers with atrocities to be propagandised
• A morally bankrupt fanbase to defend it
• A weak local press to glorify it
Definitely lots to aspire to there. 👍🏻
⚫️⚪️ Newcastle: An example of how things can change:
😩 Years of misery and unrest with owners
🇸🇦 Saudi-led consortium takeover in October 2021
👱🏼♂️ Appoint Eddie Howe in November 2021, with club 19th in the table
🙋🏻♂️ Dan Ashworth appointed sporting director in Jan 2022
💷 Jan…
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Best player in the world, starring for Real Madrid, world at his feet, and seems to spend every minute of his spare time in Sunderland and going to
#SAFC
matches. 😂🤣
Mate’s son was looking out his front window this aft when he thought he recognised a couple of lads walking through Roker…
#JobeAndJude
#Sunderland
#SAFC
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AN is a really good manager, but he’s walked out a day before a game, a week before the transfer deadline, using a contractual clause he insisted on which had the sole purpose of empowering him to shit on the club.
Why are people acting like it’s the club who’ve let HIM down? 🤯
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Plenty takeaways from that.
1) Ekwah may be the steal of the century
2) Ba/Bennette well worth persisting with
3) Clarke is nowhere near as unhappy as his agent wants him to be
#SAFC
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#SAFC
Does anyone have a link to that Ekwah run where he played about 7 one twos and then slipped Joff through with an outrageous pass?
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Tackles won in the Championship this season...
Trai Hume: 44
Everyone else: 36 or fewer
What an absolutely glorious nutter he is.
#SAFC
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Tell you what,
@elliot_embo
isn’t getting the credit he deserves for that goal.
The lad literally picked it up in his own half, burst through at pace, and wellied it in from 20 yards, at Wembley, for his boyhood club.
Doesn’t matter if the goalie ‘should’ve done better’ or not!
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Portsmouth:
❗️victim complex from 1st leg even though they were gifted 25 mins against 10 men
❗️arrogance going into 2nd leg
❗️fans kicking players
❗️players berating their own ball boys
❗️players openly lying to ref about being elbowed etc when they weren’t
What a shit club.
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You know, every now and then Sunderland do something to remind you what a remarkable club this is. Forget the players, forget the managers, forget the owners - they come and go.
But the indomitable, indefatigable spirit of
#SAFC
is something very special.
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Stepped up into a new league, they get on with it.
Lost all their strikers, they got on with it.
Manager walked out on them for no reason, they got on with it.
They concede a goal, they get on with it.
Love the lot of them.
#SAFC
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Four-year deal, multi-million-£ transfer fee. Not backing, though. Don’t you dare call it backing 😡
#SAFC
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League 1:
• Give team in 8th place who voted to stop playing a chance to play for promotion.
• Let half a dozen clubs play a Bolton youth team (while kicking out Bury)
• Relegate someone on PPG
• Penalise clubs for having more fans than others.
Clowns. 🤡
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Michael Beale is absolutely draining my enthusiasm for
#SAFC
right now. Maybe it’s not all that rational, and I know that. But I also know that from the moment he walked in the door, win or lose, I’ve felt disconnected from the club.
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Not many teams play out from the back through Newcastle’s high press. Quite staggering that Michael Beale thought Sunderland could tbh. Got what we deserved.
#SAFC
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74 successful passes out of 78 attempted (95%) from Dan Neil today. Won 11 of his 13 duels too.
We definitely take for granted just how good that kid is.
#SAFC
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Alex Neil has had TWO pay rises since the end of last season and offered a third one. Easy to criticise the club, especially when Neil was such a popular figure, but come on people…
#SAFC
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North East lads ALWAYS been the bedrock of good England teams. Bobby and Jack Charlton, Beardsley, Waddle, Robson, Gazza, Shearer... now Pickford and Henderson. Never take us lot up north for granted.
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Sunderland played today too, Keith. Middlesbrough too. Hartlepool had a hell of a result. Just keeping you up to date 👍🏻
That was a new low for Newcastle United today. No heart, no desire, no urgency. Hardly created a chance in the second half. Must be up their with one of the worst results ever. The 47,000 home supporters deserve an apology after that debacle
#NUFC
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Really enjoying the completely impartial commentary in Sheffield Wednesday v Sunderland from former Sheffield Wednesday defender Andy Hinchcliffe.
#SAFC
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Put an end to this total embarrassment and get this devil-sent joy-sucking Dementor out of our club.
#SAFC
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This is an enormous problem with refereeing. Neither of these were bookings.
Roberts’ reaction is because he doesn’t feel protected by the referee, and he gets the booking for it.
It’s the referee actually creating the problem.
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Let’s get this clear: Sunderland sank to League largely BECAUSE of him. Every other manager was able to keep the club in the Premier League and he inherited the best team of the lot of them - AND had a full season.
So, in short: F**k off.
- Everton have never found a long-term successor for him
- Man Utd are no better & the squad is unsure of their futures
- Sunderland have sunk to League One
- West Ham let him go, sacked Pellegrini, brought him back & now are in the
#UCL
mix
Never doubt David Moysey 👀⚒️
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Hard to feel sorry for Newcastle fans here when they’re more outraged about losing a game of football today than they are about their owners literally executing 81 people yesterday. 🤷🏼♂️
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Southampton fans probably wondering why they chased Ross Stewart and Patrick Roberts when Pierre Ekwah was right there. 🤣🙈
Seriously, though, what a player. Got the lot.
#SAFC
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Sunderland there, casually throwing on a 15-year-old kid against Premier League opposition. Love it.
#SAFC
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This is remarkably petulant and pathetic too, by the way. Trai Hume runs through brick walls for
#SAFC
and his head coach treats him like this.
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See, Newcastle fans? Beating League One teams isn’t as easy as you thought, is it 😂😂😂😂
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One thing I think I’ll never understand is how apparently comfortable Birmingham fans were with selling Jobe Bellingham. The kid is absolute quality and not even old enough to buy himself a drink yet.
#SAFC
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Jack Clarke. Out-f***ing-STANDING tonight. And not saying Bailey Wright was brilliant, but I might just support Australia in the next Ashes after that.
#SAFC
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Sky Sports asked Luke O'Nien what Ross Stewart's weakness was.
His answer was 'golf'. 😂
#SAFC
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Start a 6'4" striker...
Sunderland: Pass around the edge of the box, look to work the channels.
Replace him with a 5'9" striker...
#SAFC
: Rain crosses into their box like a plague of locusts. Forget the channels thing
There's a real intelligence vacuum at the club right now.
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Can we all at least now agree that Jordan Pickford is brilliant and we should be proud of him rather than always trying to drag the lad down?
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Steve Bruce managed my football club for two and a half years and I can at least tell
#NUFC
fans that he has been true to his word. What Newcastle have produced at Villa Park is absolutely ‘his way’.
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#SAFC
fans having any kind of a go at
@LukeONien
need to have a serious word with themselves. That lad has literally put his head on the line for our football club again and again and again and given us everything he has. We need to be better than this. Much better.
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Alex Neil: “There will never be a game - while I’m at this club - that will not be a big game.”
Gotta love that.
#SAFC
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If you’re ever finding yourself in a weak moment and questioning how good the
#SAFC
recruitment team is, just remember that they sold Denver Hume and bought Trai Hume for the same fee.
Should help you through those weak moments!
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Look, it’s simple. If you’re the Sunderland manager and you’re content to take a point against Fleetwood Town, you’re not the right man for the job.
#SAFC
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These owners have taken us from Conor McLaughlin to Trai Hume, from Tom Flanagan to Dan Ballard, from Chris Maguire to Jack Clarke, from Josh Scowen to Pierre Ekwah. They’ve taken us from League One desolation to Premier League hope.
We have A LOT to be optimistic about.
#SAFC
Last week wasn’t a good one for Sunderland but time to put it behind us and focus on the positives I feel.
I still absolutely love these players; their quality now, their potential, their attitude, their commitment. One bad game doesn’t erradicate all that’s gone before.
#SAFC
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To be fair, this statement is immeasurably better than the one the club put out.
#SAFC
Think someone at the club has to be held personally accountable for this one though.
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Bloody hell, man. Lucky enough to get an early viewing of Sunderland Til I Die Season 3 and I’m in emotional bits here.
Absolutely brilliant. Just get some tissues ready. Pride, passion, sadness, joy… the lot and more.
#SAFC
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Absolutely mental to me that some
#SAFC
fans are openly imploring other fans to turn on their own club instead of the bloke who’s literally just walked out on it.
Alex Neil could not give a solitary shite about Sunderland, or any of the fans still supporting him.
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‘No one appealed’ for the penalty, says Jobi McAnuff. Hardly surprising given the last time Dan Neil appealed for something he was sent off!
#SAFC
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Chris Smalling: 2 Premier League titles, an FA Cup, a League Cup, a Europa League, regular for top 5 team in Serie A last season
Newcastle fans: Not good enough for us because we had a good team 20 years ago
Complete mystery where that reputation for arrogance comes from 🤷🏼♂️
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Impossible not to be happy for Luke O’Nien too. He offers a hell of a lot to this team with his energy, physicality and unfailing enthusiasm. His football isn’t always pretty, but he makes things happen with his sheer refusal to cease believing. There’s real value in that.
#SAFC
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Why have they got to start a fight every time they lose? 😂😂
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Is there any particular reason why Sky are pretending that Dan Neil wasn’t blatantly fouled for that Boro goal btw?
#SAFC
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🟥 Newly promoted team
⬜️ Second youngest squad in league
🟥 Best defender out
⬜️ Top scorer out
🟥 Manager walked out
Top six after nine matches and playing some great football. Could all still go very wrong, but got to give
#SAFC
immense credit right now.
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Considering his dad supposedly lives with Jobe in Sunderland, is this Jude Bellingham spending Christmas on Wearside?
#SAFC
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Honestly think that you will struggle to find a more perfect signing at a more crucial time in all of
#SAFC
history than Danny Batth, and he delivered exactly what was needed.
If this is the start of the Sunderland comeback, few will be owed more gratitude than Danny Batth is.
ᴛʜᴀɴᴋʏᴏᴜ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴍᴏʀɪᴇꜱ ꜱᴜɴᴅᴇʀʟᴀɴᴅ
Enjoyed every moment pulling on the red & white shirt and knowing what it means to represent this amazing club.
The support I have received since I joined has been phenomenal 👏🏽
Thankyou 🔴⚪️
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Look, I am urging caution here, because a lot can still go wrong or awry, but...
EXCLUSIVE: Amad Diallo asks Man Utd to allow Sunderland return
#SAFC
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Best indication that the model at
#SAFC
is working is the total absence of crisis over the last 5 days. Previous years, a manager walking would throw whole club into disarray. No fuss now. Just activate the plan for succession, keep pursuing transfer targets, and carry on calmly.
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By the way, think Sunderland have an potential absolute beast on their hands in Jenson Seelt. Very excited to watch his development.
#SAFC
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Definitely feels like we are starting to see a few encouraging signs that Abdoullah Ba is coming of age. Two great performances in a row and has been productive in both.
#SAFC
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“Not quite where they were last season” - Literally in the exact same position in the league.
“Looking to get themselves back into promotion contention” - Literally in a play-off position.
#SAFC
West Ham are interested in Sunderland forward Jack Clarke 👀
Clarke is Sunderland’s top scorer this season with 12 goals from 26 Championship games ⚽
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Amad has told Man Utd and Sunderland that if he’s leaving on loan again,
#SAFC
is where he wants to go. Made that very clear. It’s
#MUFC
’s decision though.
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Incredible that there are some people who think this fella isn’t the best player in the Championship.
#SAFC
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This goal is just dripping in quality from both creator and scorer. Hard to see either in the Championship next season.
#SAFC
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With Tony Mowbray, have to say I have really enjoyed his work at Sunderland and loved the football he has given us.
Everything always ends, and rarely in a nice way in football, but Mowbray is one of the good guys and I'm very grateful for what he did at
#SAFC
.
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I may be way off here, often am, but I think in a year or so
#SAFC
might just have an absolute monster on their hands in Luis Hemir.
Patience is simply part of the process.
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Just magnificent 🤣🤣
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I don't have any issue with Newcastle fans getting 6k tickets for the Cup game.
However, making
#SAFC
season card holders, most of whom have been loyal through a genuine dark period in our history, to fight over left-overs while bitter rivals sit in their seats is disgraceful.
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Rivalries aside, the guy needs help, not punishment.
Newcastle United acknowledges a misconduct charge received by Sandro Tonali in respect of alleged breaches of FA Betting Rules.
Sandro continues to fully comply with relevant investigations and he retains the club's full support.
Due to this ongoing process, Sandro and…
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An achievement even more remarkable given his accent 🤣
#SAFC
Today's game against Stoke City marks Luke O'Nien's 250th appearance for Sunderland in all competitions.
As per Rob Mason, he is only the third player since the turn of the millennium to reach that mark. The other two are John O’Shea and Lee Cattermole.
Some servant. 👏🏻
#SAFC
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If you want to support Sunderland but also struggle to accept your team losing a football match and playing shite every now and again... well life isn’t going to be very kind to you I’m afraid.
#SAFC
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I absolutely love this lad playing for my club. He embodies everything I want
#SAFC
to be about.
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A two-time
#SAFC
Wembley winner, one of which as the scorer of the winning goal.
@LyndenGooch
will always be Sunderland. ❤️
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Losing Amad is an obvious blow, but likes of Neil, Ekwah, Clarke, Patterson, Alese, Hume etc will improve naturally for next season.
Will have Stewart back too and that’s all before any summer strengthening. Exciting journey.
#SAFC
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Sunderland are the fourth top scorers in the entire Championship and have barely been able to rustle up a striker all season. Just saying.
#SAFC
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