Darren Bent Signs with Sunderland

Finally the pointless drama is over.


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Steve Bruce Named Manager at Sunderland

How does a Geordie become the manager of Sunderland? I think it's a conspiracy.

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Roy Keane Bids Farewell to Sunderland

Keano said goodbye to Sunderland this morning after a dismal run of form that sees the club barreling towards relegation. The former manager does deserve a massive round of applause though for bringing the club back into the Premier League and keeping it there as the only club promoted last season to stay in the upper echelon. In his closing statement he was appreciative of Sunderland and its members:

"I would like to thank my staff, players, Niall Quinn and in particular the fans for their support during my time at Sunderland, and I would like to wish the club every success in the future."

Ricky Sbragia, the club’s first team coach, will act as interim manager, with the assistance of reserve-team coach Neil Bailey and senior player Dwight Yorke.

Sunderland’s next match is against Keano’s former club Manchester United. I’m wondering if his convenient departure is a matter of avoiding the embarrassment of getting walloped at Old Trafford. Awfully suspicious, no?

Link: Sunderland Manager Keane Quits Club

Hip-Hop No Go for Premier League Stars

So there’s this big party in Miami for Christmas hosted by rappers Akon and Lil’ Wayne. Apparently it’s going to be totally krunk.

Anywho, Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka have invites. But manager, Luis Felipe Scolari has said nay, nay. Jigga what!? So not cool, yo.

Sunderland’s El-Hadji Diouf and Djibril Cisse also received invites, but were told by Roy Keane that their RSVP was going to have to be a big ol’ not-gonna-happen.

Personal Note: Yes, I do indeed realise that I am, in fact, the whitest white girl on the planet… yo.

Link: Drogba Told To Hip-Hop It

Weekend of Upsets, Besides Chelsea of Course

What is going on in the Premier League OR, rather, what the f**k happened this weekend? Wigan and Tottenham both won games tied at 1-1 in literally the last minute of the game. While Arsenal fell to Stoke in a dismal display and Hull were SOOO close to tying up with Manchester United. It was like twilight zone stuff.

Wigan beat Portsmouth 1-2 with goals from Amr Zaki (pictured above, looking exceedingly attractive in his post-goal celebration glory) and Emile Heskey. Niko Kranjcar was the lone goal scorer for Portsmouth. I'm thinking maybe Pompey was distracted by the flroescent yellow-green Chelsea throwback kits Wigan sported for the match.


Gael Clichy saved the blushes of Arsenal by scoring on 90’, but it wasn’t enough as the Gunners fell 2-1 to Stoke. At least Cesc finally decided to get a haircut. (But the faux-hawk is so 2006.)


Last, but definitely not the least, Tottenham pulled out a win over Liverpool in the dieing embers of the match with a goal from newcomer Roman Pavlyuchenko (who’s mummy is saying that he didn’t want to join Spurs in the first place.) Jamie Carragher scored the other for the Spurs. That’s right, an own goal from the defensive master. Oh bother.


Credit to Hull City for their efforts against Manchester United. They were so close to tying it up, but just couldn’t finalize the deal. But still 4-3 was quite a remarkable result.


There was much guy-love to go around at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea had another AMAZING match against Sunderland. A hat-trick from Anelka, a goal from Alex, along with ANOTHER header from Lampard (he’s going to have to stop telling people that he’s no good at headers) sealed a 5-0 win for the Blues. That brings our goal differential to +26 compared to Liverpool’s +8. Oh and congrats to Frank for scoring his 100th career league goal. YAY!

pictures via jamd and kickette