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Blue tinted optimist⭐🦐
Really looking forward to my first game of the season. I've kept up to date-ish and have read the reports etc. Seems we've been playing not too badly but at this level, mistakes are punished and you get away with much less.
Little known fact – Southend (I believe) are the only team ever to have beaten Sunderland on their own ground (then Roker Park) on 4 consecutive occasions. This occurred between from 1991/2 – 1994/5. The run ended in Sunderlands promotion season of 1995/6 when they did the double over us. I remember the home match at a foggy Roots Hall one evening in February when Michael Bridges came on as a sub midway through the second half, ran on the pitch, kept running and scored with his first touch. A lot of fans didn’t even know because they just couldn’t see through the gloom.
Unfortunately we only managed one win over them at the Hall in that time, winning 2-0 in our first season at that level and completing the double over them. That was also the last time we scored a goal against them down here.
There has been a lot of pre-game talk as to whether or not this is a good time to be up against the Mackems, with them having lost 3 straight matches. Surely this would NOT be a game they would particularly want at this time, being such a potential banana skin. A heavy defeat might even force Quinn into resigning his managerial position. On the other hand, Southend do have a proven historical ability to get other teams seasons back on track, so this is a very difficult game to call.
No doubt all will be revealed this afternoon.
Little known fact – Southend (I believe) are the only team ever to have beaten Sunderland on their own ground (then Roker Park) on 4 consecutive occasions. This occurred between from 1991/2 – 1994/5. The run ended in Sunderlands promotion season of 1995/6 when they did the double over us. I remember the home match at a foggy Roots Hall one evening in February when Michael Bridges came on as a sub midway through the second half, ran on the pitch, kept running and scored with his first touch. A lot of fans didn’t even know because they just couldn’t see through the gloom.
Unfortunately we only managed one win over them at the Hall in that time, winning 2-0 in our first season at that level and completing the double over them. That was also the last time we scored a goal against them down here.
There has been a lot of pre-game talk as to whether or not this is a good time to be up against the Mackems, with them having lost 3 straight matches. Surely this would NOT be a game they would particularly want at this time, being such a potential banana skin. A heavy defeat might even force Quinn into resigning his managerial position. On the other hand, Southend do have a proven historical ability to get other teams seasons back on track, so this is a very difficult game to call.
No doubt all will be revealed this afternoon.
