Our daily round up of SAFC news direct from our offices opposite the Stadium of Light...

It's a fan's site so we publish some of your letters here. Simple really. If you fancy being famous...ish email us your Sunderland views and we'll put them online.

Even more funky designy ideas from those crazy chaps in the t-shirt department...

Canny like ...

As with last season our opening game of the Premiership Reserves League was against the great unwashed, only this time it was at the landfill known as Sid James' Park, however, thankfully unlike last season, we managed to hold on to our two-one advantage to the final whistle. Well we almost always win two-one...

After a couple of ciders in Fitzgerald’s I was in the ground and in my seat in the East Stand right on the half-way line by 2.50. The crowd looked surprisingly thin but apart from that all seemed well and when the teams were announced Malbranque was playing after all. The first half was…

Sunderland were given a reality check this afternoon at the SOL suffering a 3-0 loss to Manchester City. Anyone getting carried away and dreaming of Europe after our encouraging win at Spurs last week shouldn’t dig out their passport just yet. A brace for Shawn Wright Phillips and a late first half opener from alleged former SAFC transfer target Stephen Ireland sealed the lads’ fate…

Well, that was a canny week. Two away wins, including Roy’s first cup game victory, the arrival of yet another Premier quality player in Ferdinand and Birmingham being found guilty of ripping us off. City might have won last week, but behind the scenes, they’re up there in the Mag category of disarray, with an “international fugitive” at the helm. As ever, there’s been an air of anticipation around SAFC, as we can’t wait for the next game to come along.…

T Shirts, Badges, Coach Travel, Books, Cds, DVDs, Greetings Cards, Subscriptions, Sunglasses & Nice Girls (you can’t buy them, but they model the stuff!)...

This is your chance to own a piece of Sunderland AFC fanzine history. Re-mixed and re-mastered articles from the first fifty issues of A Love Supreme...

Following the highs of last weekend’s win in the capital, ending a thirty year wait for victory at Spurs, we turn our attentions to Man City this weekend. Following their trip to play FC Midtjylland in the UEFA Cup on Thursday evening, our game has been put back a day to Sunday, meaning we'll now have to wait until October for a traditional Saturday 3pm kick off. Life in the Premiership eh?...