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[True Green Planet @truegreenplanet]

Spare tickets for Scotland v Brazil there. Message me if interested!! #scotlandnt      #morocco              #brazil                                                    #fifawc

[WTF Sunderland Podcast @WTFSunlunPod]

My left back 🇲🇿

#SAFC

[True Green Planet @truegreenplanet]

Spares Chelsea tickets there. Dm us!! @SunlunTickets #Safc

[True Green Planet @truegreenplanet]

Oh Noo😂😂

[True Green Planet @truegreenplanet]

Hull v Southampton

Unbelievable

[True Green Planet @truegreenplanet]

Hull v Southampton

Unbelievable

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

Ready to go again 👊

[A LOVE SUPREME @ALS_Fanzine]

OTD: SAFC 3-2 BURNLEY

On this day in 2007, Sunderland beat Burnley 3-2 at the Stadium of Light. A 3-2 scoreline sounds pretty interesting in any circumstances, but this one was more than a bit special for several reasons.

In Roy Keane’s first season in management (2006/07), he arrived on Wearside and transformed our fortunes. After losing our first four games under Niall Quinn (who's he?), Keano’s very presence at the SoL brought us a win against West Bromwich Albion and we set off on a wonderful season of late wins and dramatic goals. The reverse fixture, in December 2006, had seen us fall behind to two Kyle Lafferty goals (who's he?) before Grant Leadbitter pulled one back with ten to go, then David Connolly struck deep into added time to grab us a vital point. A taste of things to come? Most definitely.

With two games to go, we were sitting top of the table and simply desperate to seal things when Burnley came to town. No Lafferty for them this time but they did have Steve Caldwell (he did ok for us) and Andy Gray (couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a handful of gravel) in their starting XI. Things got off to a decent start when Daryl Murphy put our first into the South Stand (AKA Roker End) net after only quarter of an hour and it looked to get even better five minutes later when Connolly was upended in the box but his penalty was saved. Gray then showed him how things are done from the spot after Wade Elliot was fouled, although it has to be said that the referee was giving his whistle a fair old workout. Five minutes into the second half, Elliot put the visitors ahead, much to the dismay of most of the 44,448 crowd but such was the nature of the game that it simply increased the noise levels. Five minutes later, and urged on by the crowd, Carlos Edwards galloped into the box and was tripped, allowing Connolly the chance to make amends for his earlier effort; which he did.

From there it was end to end stuff as we sought the win that would get us closer to automatic promotion and Burnley sought the win that would, well, keep them in mid-table obscurity. With ten to go, we broke forward and Edwards pointed to where he wanted the ball before lashing it into the North Stand net. One of the SoL’s best goals, evoking memories of Vic Halom’s effort at Roker Park against Manchester City 33 years earlier. What a buck snorter! A goal worthy of winning any game and one that endorsed Quinny’s claim that the £1.5 million we spent on him in the January would be the best £1.5 million we’d ever spend. He also had a shot saved in added time, as well as helping set up Stern John to put an effort just wide. We held on to win the game and seal promotion and the celebrations at the final whistle were a sight to behold. One game to go, away at Luton Town, and we all know what a party that turned out to be.

For the record, it was Darren Ward, Danny Simpson, Danny Collins, Nyron Nosworthy, Jonny Evans, Dean Whitehead, Liam Miller (Leadbitter), Murphy, Connolly (John), Anthony Stokes (Tobias Hysen) and Edwards.

[Roker Report @RokerReport]

WELCOME TO SUNDERLAND.

@StadiumOfLight | #SAFC

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

Remembering one of our greatest-ever players, Charlie Hurley, on the second anniversary of his passing ❤️

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

What a way to score your first Premier League goal 😍

[Roker Report @RokerReport]

Win as a team, lose as a team.

Three brilliant goals today though. Wilson’s was my favourite of the lot — we don’t score enough of those kinds of goals really, so maybe that’s why it felt special.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

Meanwhile at Villa Park:

🔥 02’ Aston Villa 1-0 Sunderland
🔥 09’ Aston Villa 1-1 Sunderland
🔥 36’ Aston Villa 2-1 Sunderland
🔥 47’ Aston Villa 3-1 Sunderland
🔥 86’ Aston Villa 3-2 Sunderland
🔥 87’ Aston Villa 3-3 Sunderland
🔥 93’ Aston Villa 4-3 Sunderland

WHAT. A. F**KING. MATCH.

[Roker Report @RokerReport]

That one will sting for a few days, but we’re still right in the mix. 2 points off 6th position with 5 games to go!

Let’s get the SOL bouncing on Friday night!

HA’WAY THE LADS! ❤️🤍

[Rejected Manager @RejectedBook]

ANOTHER REMINDER

Granit Xhaka joined us to experience a relegation battle to develop as a leader.

Because of him, we have a genuine chance of a European place, maybe even the Champions League.

We may finish 14th still. BUT we have a chance.

#SAFC @ALS_Fanzine @RokerReport

[Premier League @premierleague]

Wow @SunderlandAFC 😳

They score twice in 58 seconds to level it up at 3-3 with 87 minutes on the clock

[CalSAFC❤🤍 @CalSAFCFTM]

This guy today fucking unreal man 🤩 he deserves a call up to the national team for the World Cup like 🇫🇷💙🤍 #SAFC

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

Checked in and RTG at Villa Park 👋

[Andy Sixsmith @andysixsmithtv]

🔴⚪️ Few sides in Europe go to Villa Park and give Aston Villa as good a game as that. Goes to show just how far Sunderland have come - and how established a Premier League club they are now.

⚽️ Brilliant to see both Chris Rigg and Trai Hume get their first Premier League goals too - as well as Wilson Isidor back on the scoresheet.

✅ Plenty of momentum heading into the final few games of what’s been a super first season back in the top flight.