Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Arsenal FC - Saturday 8th November 2025 - KO 17:30

The running track at Luton is so narrow they can only use linesmen with size eight boots or under

 

Nope! And nope! Would make my season ticket money for almost nothing! I gig most Saturday nights so 5:30s would kill that

 

They're both misogynistic pricks IMO.

 

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/s...s-view-brian-brobbey-sunderland-draw-arsenal/

ROBIN ROEFS knows all about Brian Brobbey’s goalscoring prowess – but even Sunderland’s goalkeeper was amazed to see his team-mate hook home Saturday’s dramatic stoppage-time equaliser against Arsenal. With Sunderland trailing 2-1 to the league leaders, the clock had ticked beyond the 94th minute when Dan Ballard nodded Trai Hume’s cross towards Brobbey at the Stadium of Light.

Not only did the second-half substitute have to outmuscle Gabriel – something pretty much no one has been able to do this season – but he also had to twist his body and raise his foot to a seemingly unnatural height in order to flick the ball home...

“I know what Brian is like,” said Roefs, who, like Brobbey, moved to Wearside from the Netherlands in the summer. “He showed it in Holland, and he also showed it for the national team. He’s showing his qualities here now too. He’s so strong with and without the ball as well. He keeps two or three defenders busy, so he’s a really good player. I still couldn’t really see how he scored it though. But I saw it in the back of the net and then started celebrating.”

...Trailing 2-1, and with the Gunners seemingly on top, it would have been easy for Sunderland’s players to have thrown in the towel. That is not the mentality Regis Le Bris has instilled into his squad, though, so while Arsenal might have been the best team in the country in the opening three months of the season, Roefs and his team-mates always felt they were capable of turning things back around.

“I think we genuinely did believe we could do it because we were really pushing and we were dangerous in the attack,” said Roefs. “I think they felt our pressure, so I absolutely believed in it until the end.”

Brobbey’s goal came in the fourth minute of stoppage time, and even then, Sunderland still needed a dramatic 97th-minute block from Dan Ballard to prevent Mikel Merino from restoring Arsenal’s lead. The Gunners were uncomfortable for long periods, though, meaning Roefs felt his side definitely deserved to take something from the game.

“What a game,” he said. “I think we absolutely deserved the point, so it’s nice to have got it. I think we did a good job. We were really aggressive. We were aggressive in the low block, and we made it difficult for them. I think we did a great job.”

 

amount of post match content ive consumed is absurd

whilst im surprised im not actually, i backed us for top 10 at 33/1, i felt like the odds were insane. The quality of the recruitment is absurd, weve got internationals everywhere, weve got players who have been and should be playing in Europe all over the pitch. Weve got a manager who proven himself to be tactically flexible and in my mind is the first manager since poyet where you can see the managers method on the pitch.

That Granit signing changed everything, the Brobbey interview confirms it.

I dont know where we'll finish but if we stay up the short term will be the best its been to support the lads since Reid imo.