Football Daily | Sunderland, Granit Xhaka and identifying Sisyphean futility

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Correctly installed as lava-hot favourites to be relegated back to the Championship, seconds after the final whistle was blown at the end of their last-gasp playoff final win over Sheffield United, Sunderland promptly lost their standout player, Jobe Bellingham, to a far more successful club who might conceivably win a trophy more prestigious than Fizzy Cup in the next 70 years. Instead of raging about cosy cartels, the unfairness of PSR and the fact their billionaire owner isn’t allowed to spend money on players that the football club he owns hasn’t earned, mackems have since looked on with increasing intrigue as their club’s hierarchy have unveiled a series of new signings that, while unlikely to prompt talk of a serious title tilt, may at least ensure that Sunderland do not feature in any conversational comparisons with Derby County and their record low Premier League points tally of 11 in the coming months.Perhaps the reason for Sheffield Wednesday’s 10-man, 16-0 defeat to Halliwell FC in 1887 (yesterday’s Football Daily) was that not all members of the 1896 FA Cup-winning squad were trusting of the Victorian time machine technology that the club were clearly using at that time?” – Garreth Cummins (and others).Although the number is the same as Football Daily’s pedants, my only knowledge of ‘Bonnie Blue’ is that I thought it was an affectionate name for Cowdenbeath’s home kit. And that’s the story I’m sticking with” – Simon Mazier (and 1,056 others).Re: Forest’s ownership. Guy Stephenson is partially correct (yesterday’s Football Daily letters); it is the same Evangelos Marinakis who put his shares into a blind trust earlier in the year, but it’s also the Evangelos Marinakis that reversed the situation in June when it became apparent it wasn’t required” – Jim Hearson.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...

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