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Joe Rowell

Joe Rowell

Sports Journalist · 43 articles

Another twist in the Ricky Alvarez saga
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Another twist in the Ricky Alvarez saga

One of Sunderland’s recent loanee’s future is still in doubt, over which club he should actually be playing at. Rumour had it that if Sunderland stayed up last season, they were required to pay Inter Milan a fee believed to be in the region of £8-million as part of the loan agreement. The issues arose […]

Player Ratings: Sunderland vs Chelsea
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Player Ratings: Sunderland vs Chelsea

Sunderland hosted last season’s Premier League Champions Chelsea in this weekend’s penultimate home game. A win for Sunderland would potentially leave their fate in their own hands. A terrific game saw Chelsea go ahead through a Diego Costa goal inside the first half.It didn’t take long for Sunderland to respond when Khazri hammered a right-footed […]

Relegation Premier League Predictions
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Relegation Premier League Predictions

Last weekend’s results saw Newcastle get their way out of the relegation zone with a home victory against Crystal Palace. A poor Sunderland performance saw them salvage a draw against Stoke, but not enough to see them remain outside of the drop zone. Norwich succumbed to a loss away at Arsenal, leaving them second-bottom. This […]

Sunderland’s Predicted XI vs Chelsea
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Sunderland’s Predicted XI vs Chelsea

Sunderland play host to Chelsea in the Black Cats penultimate home game of the season. Sunderland have lost just one game in their last eight, albeit only winning 1 as well with a 3-0 victory over Norwich. The most recent result was a 1-1 draw away at Stoke, where Sunderland somehow salvaged a draw with […]

Stoke City 1-1 Sunderland – Player Ratings
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Stoke City 1-1 Sunderland – Player Ratings

Sunderland travelled to Stoke yesterday, hoping for a good result in order to stay outside of the relegation zone. Stoke went 1-0 up inside the second half with a goal from Marco Arnautovic, but they were pegged back by an injury-time Defoe penalty. A point seems a relatively good result down to the poor Sunderland […]

Weekends Relegation Predictions
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Weekends Relegation Predictions

As we get to the business end of the season, with Aston Villa already relegated, it seems the final two relegation slots will be between 3 teams. Sunderland currently sit outside of the bottom three, but only on goal difference. Norwich occupy 18th position, with Newcastle second bottom in 19th. Sunderland and Norwich are both […]

Best & Worst: Stoke City vs Sunderland
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Best & Worst: Stoke City vs Sunderland

Sunderland travel to Staffordshire this weekend, where they face an out-of-form Stoke City. The Black Cats are going into the game on the back of 3 clean sheets out of the last 4 games, compared to a Stoke side who have conceded 4 goals in each of their last 3 games. Sunderland will be hoping […]

International Break thoughts for Allardyce
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International Break thoughts for Allardyce

Hope and optimism were spread amongst Sunderland fans before the start of the season, with the manager at the time, Dick Advocaat, promising several quality signings. Advocaat did spend roughly £23-million on just Lens and Borini, but the quality still eludes Sunderland.mo While sitting bottom of the table, Allardyce walked stating that the Sunderland side […]

Bridcutt’s loan move in doubt
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Bridcutt’s loan move in doubt

Liam Bridcutt’s loan move to Leeds United is looking doubtful, despite an agreement days ago. The Sunderland outcast was looking set for a 2-month spell at Elland Road, where he would join his former Brighton teammate and other Sunderland outcast Will Buckley. Bridcutt was signed by Poyet, as a back-up for Cattermole. But since the […]

Big Sam wants new Watmore deal
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Big Sam wants new Watmore deal

Sam Allardyce wants Sunderland hottest prospect Duncan Watmore to pen a new deal. Watmore’s current contract runs out at the end of the season, but Allardyce wants that changed. Despite declaring last week that all contracts will be decided when Sunderland’s Premier League status for next season is decided, it seems Allardyce has made Watmore […]

Sunderland vs Everton: Match Report
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Sunderland vs Everton: Match Report

Following Sunderland’s derby victory last weekend which earned Sunderland their first victory of the season, The Black Cats travelled to Merseyside to face Everton. After a minutes silence pre-match, Sunderland started the game very brightly. A new formation saw Sunderland set up with 3 centre-backs, consisting of Billy Jones, Wes Brown and Sebastian Coates. The […]

Who to look out for vs Everton
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Who to look out for vs Everton

This weekend sees The Black Cats travel to Merseyside, as they come up against Everton in Sunday’s televised 1:30 pm kick off. Sunderland come into the game following their 3-0 over fierce rivals Newcastle, in which they extended their run to 6 wins in a row against Newcastle. Everton last result in the league was […]

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