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Joined March 2009
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Set Piece suicide from Sunderland again. What on earth are they doing leaving four players unmarked in the box for a shot at goal on a rebound? And where is the out?Absurd defending & tactics Goal Zagreb obviously. #SAFC
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The sooner Nordi and BDB are back the better. There must be better options than Xhaka. Not interested. Not leading. Danso & Alderete aren’t the answer. 09 better than the pair of them. Having Diarra available would be useful. And need some luck.
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Tony Ayton retweeted
That was awful,there’s no sugarcoating it. Slow,lethargic and defensively an absolute shambles. There is absolutely nothing to feel any bit of happiness about in that game. Just miles off what it should be,there wasn’t any real sort of fight,playing with a real whimper #SAFC
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Last season we pinged the ball about with speed and momentum. This season nothing, so slow. Last season we were defensively strong, this season I could score against us. Those two views alone make us a wholly different team but with mostly the same players. So disappointing.
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Tony Ayton retweeted
This was potentially the biggest, most exciting and transformative #SAFC season of many of our lifetimes. Instead, it feels increasingly like an opportunity squandered and a truly generational chance wasted. Shove the “advanced metrics” up your arse — we’re in trouble.
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Better in the second half but still nowhere near good enough. That first half was embarrassing, absolutely no desire to win the game or even to get a goal. Just slow, meandering football and waiting for the opposition to do something. No positive response from game to game.
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Rotos de dolor, con un nudo en la garganta y sin poder creer que esto sea verdad, desde el CD Tenerife comunicamos el trágico fallecimiento, este martes, día 3 de noviembre de 2026, a las 8:00 horas, de Jesús de Miguel Alameda. No hay palabras de consuelo; no hay absolutamente nada que mitigue este sentimiento repleto de tristeza. Estamos junto a su desolada familia, junto a sus seres queridos, junto a todo el tinerfeñismo que hoy llora por este cruel desenlace. La familia de Jesús de Miguel agradece todas y cada una de las muestras de apoyo recibidas, e igualmente solicita, de corazón, máximo respeto a su privacidad, en estos terribles momentos. 🖤 DEP
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We have the 8th most big chances in the league. We’ve missed 74% of them. Astonishing #SAFC
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Jobe Bellingham vs Bayern (A)
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Instead of such negativity please help us share love and positivity by sharing my beautiful boys picture ♥️ #CancerHasNoColours bradleyloweryfoundation.com
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It’s the standard of goals we’re conceding… It’s just so, so poor. Individual errors, lack of effort to make up for a mistake, sloppy in possession, silly red cards. We’ve gone from one of the best drilled and most organised defences in the league, that was the bedrock of a side that took points off 18 of 19 opponents last year, to one of the worst.
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Six goals from individual errors this season in the Premier League… #SAFC
Replying to @JamesCopley_
How many goals this season is our own team going to assist the opposition it’s every week feels like
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Not for the first time this season, Granit Xhaka has been a passenger off the ball this afternoon. He’s far from the only one at fault, but his performance has been well below the standard you’d expect from Sunderland’s captain. #SAFC
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Luke O'Nien made 16 clearances against Leeds, the second-most by any player in a Premier League game this season. 11 of those were with his head, with no player recording more in a single match. 🧹
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Le Bris and Sunderland might be 20th as it stands but they reduce games to fine margins and excel in all game-states as they press man-to-man high, defend zonally low, can build against a zonal press or play direct against a man-to-man press, and attack well in a 3-1-6 with decent quality + profile balance across the thirds. Combine that with the support of the fans at the Stadium of Light and I don’t expect them to be relegated this season. I actually back them to go far in Europe and to stay up comfortably. They have a talented and big squad, even if the summer window just gone was a little underwhelming.
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Tony Ayton retweeted
😂 Two Sunderland fans in the Lech Poznań end. Absolute madmen. Anyone know who they are? #SAFC
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Tony Ayton retweeted
Lost phone found in Poznan. Obviously a Sunderland fan. We’ve got it, please let us know.
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Tony Ayton retweeted
"It depends about what we really want, and this starts in training because we don't do enough, and after you can see it on the pitch."
"Maybe we became arrogant." "We struggle everywhere." Nordi Mukiele shares his honest views after Sunderland's defeat to Bournemouth 🗣️
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WHAT A GOAL. WE HAVE THE LEAD IN STOPPAGE TIME!
NOAH SADIKIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!! 🤯
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