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The little Salut! empire is playing around with geography. It always fascinates me to look behind the scenes of my StatCounter register and see where my readers come from.

Some obviously arrive by accident and waste no time in speeding off into the sunset again. But others, wherever they start their cyber journey, land on this site because they are looking for something. I hope they find it here, just as I hope some of the casuals stick around, pleasantly surprised.

Now you can share my perusal of the origins of all those who are joining you day by day in reading about Sunderland AFC. It’s down at the bottom of the right hand column.

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If there is anything more ridiculous than the FA being able to bully, sorry persuade, tinpot little fanzines and fans’ sites into not publishing fixtures lists without first paying a fee, it must be the fact that these lists are worthless in any case.

Remember thinking that we would start our Premiership campaign against Spurs at 3pm on Saturday August 11? And that we then played Birmingham on Tues Aug 14?

Wrong. The opening game has been changed to suit telly and will now be played at 12.45pm – and to hell with the fans if they find the switch makes travel plans difficult or even impossible.

And Ian Todd at the London and Southern England branch has just pointed out that as a result of Birmingham’s opening game being moved to the Sunday, their next, against us, will now be
a day later, on Wed Aug 15.

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