The Sunderland Chronicle
Match4 Nov 2026
The cup run ends for Sunderland
1‑2 against Leeds United, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Sunderland
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sunderland are no longer polite ones.
Market9 Nov 2026
Noah Sadiki wants more than Sunderland are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Chemsdine Talbi is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Sunderland know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Costly mistake from Robin Roefs
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Robin Roefs knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Adam Webster
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Webster, and the manager let it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Brian Brobbey rescues a point for Sunderland
It needed Brian Brobbey to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Tottenham, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A first senior shirt for Lewis Campbell
Every debut is a small story about the future: Lewis Campbell, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Chris Rigg
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
In brief
- Market The Chris Rigg story refuses to die
- The terraces The press have found their man in Abdoullah Ba