Ex-Sunderland footballer, Paul Stewart, has recently opened up about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child. Mr Stewart, 52, played for many football teams over his career, winning three England caps in the process. The striker opened up and waived his anonymity during an interview with the Daily Mirror. Stewart […]
It was lights out at the Stadium of ‘Light’ on Saturday afternoon after a power cut. It’s highly unlikely there has ever been such an appropriate name for a football stadium, as the Stadium of Light plunged into darkness six minutes into the second half of the Black Cats’ Premier League […]
SR News’ Sophie Dishman speaks to Kieron Brady on Alcohol Awareness Week which runs from November 14 to November 20. “I’ll be an alcoholic to the day I die,” says Kieron Brady as he sits in a blank white room at the University of Sunderland, a place where he once volunteered […]
Players in the November 11 World Cup qualifier will wear black poppy armbands in defiance of FIFA’s insistence that no exceptions will be made by the world governing body. An excerpt from FIFA’s Laws of the Game state that: “The basic compulsory equipment must not have any political, religious or personal slogans, […]
David Moyes’ future at Sunderland could be in jeopardy today after another defeat for Sunderland. The Black Cats currently sit at the bottom of the Premier League with just two points from their opening nine matches. Sunderland fell to another defeat this past weekend after West Ham defender Winston Reid […]
(Photo credit: Independent) Some of the North East’s finest Olympians and Paralympians took part in a bus parade in Manchester today to celebrate their record-breaking performances in Rio. Olympic star Aly Dixon has hailed the celebration parade for giving athletes the chance to thank the British public for their support in […]
One of Sunderland AFC’s most devoted fans is celebrating his 90th birthday. George Forster, chairman of the Sunderland Supporters Association, is 90-years-old on October 7. Having hardly missed a game since 1962, Forster has been chairman of the Association for the past 15 years and has enough memories to fill a book […]
A football fan from America who fell in love with Sunderland AFC while playing FIFA says he is ‘living the dream’ after moving over 3000 miles to study at the city’s university. Philip Ward, 21, from Buffalo, New York, chose Sunderland as his team at random while playing the popular video game […]
A total of seven people were arrested in the policing operation around the Sunderland v Middlesbrough football match on Sunday, August 21. All of those arrested were men. There were four arrests for conspiracy to cause violent disorder, two for disorderly conduct, and one for breach of the peace. Superintendent […]
Sunderland born Josh Kelly dominated his opponent in his debut Olympic match last night. The 22- year-old beat Egypt’s Walid Mohamed by a unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) to reach the last 16 of the welterweight division. Three of his GB team mates, Lawrence Okolie, Anthony Fowler and Galal Yafai all lost […]