Fame was clearly the spur, and the words have come in bucketloads from White Hart Lane. With reassuring brevity, Greg Meyer* rounds off Salut! Sunderland’s own silly season – and Salut! thanks ‘em all

Surely Keane vs Keane is not a relegation dogfight

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Diamond White, aka Paxton Lee*, leapt at the chance of writing for Salut! Sunderland‘s new Who Are They? feature ahead of Saturday’s game at White Hart Lane. Will we extend our run of one win running? Will we snatch a plucky draw? Or will we just continue this season’s normal away service of losing most things in sight? Paxton thinks he knows the answer

Let’s not pretend otherwise, for us this week is all about the League Cup Semi-final 2nd leg against the Woolwich Wanderers.

We haven’t beaten them for years and we are a game away from Wembley. However, we would be foolish to underestimate the importance of Saturday’s affair with Sunderland. One look at the league table will show you that an away win would see Sunderland within one point of us.

With the Black Cats locked in a relegation battle such a result would surely mean, after nursing the bruised egos again, that we aren’t particularly safe ourselves either. And with the following two league games being a trip to Everton and the visit of Man Utd, three points this Saturday have to be earned and has to be a must.

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Sunderland fans would settle for a controversial win on the lines of a 1938 FA Cup tie clinched by a Raich carter goal. Logan Holmes* and his fellow Spurs supporters want Berbatov to emulate the scoring record Jimmy Greaves (pictured) had against us

Saturday’s game at White Hart Lane will be the 100th competitive meeting between Spurs and Sunderland with Tottenham holding a slight advantage in the overall record: 38 wins ahead of Sunderland’s 35.

Throughout that record, Sunderland have a history of spoiling Spurs’ hopes and ambitions.

Back in 1938 – no, I wasn’t there – Sunderland travelled to London for an FA Cup 6th round tie. Sunderland were the 1st Division side and the FA Cup holders while Spurs had dropped down into the 2nd Division three years earlier.

White Hart Lane recorded the highest ever attendance – 75,038 were packed into the ground as the players took to the pitch. Such a scenario, a record crowd, deserved a home win but Sunderland had other ideas; however their victory was not without controversy.

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