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Preston North End v Sunderland

Deepdale Monday 8 May 2023 3pm kick off

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LAST TIME OUT



FORM GUIDE

PNE 4 SUNDERLAND 14

Our form is dropping off a cliff whether Mr Fantastic's powers of motivation are waning or the players have down tools and are looking forward to slobbing on beaches for the next couple of months we will soon find out
Sunderland have a lot resting on the game they have won the last couple of games however what happens to them is out of their hands.

THE JOY OF EX

No current ex Nobbers in the Black Cats squad

(GOD)

Brian Mooney, (born 2 February 1966 in Dublin) is an Irish former footballer who made his name as a skilful winger in English football. Mooney was spotted in 1983 by Liverpool playing for Irish schoolboy club Home Farm F.C. where he had won a FAI Youth Cup. He went to school at St. Joseph's C.B.S. in Fairview.

Melville George Holden (25 August 1954 – 31 January 1981) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a forward. Active in both England and the Netherlands, Holden made nearly 150 career League appearances, scoring nearly 50 goals



Died way too young

A ONE SEASON WONDER FOR US HAD SOME CLASS

Aiden John McGeady (born 4 April 1986) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Scottish Premiership club Hibernian. Born in Scotland, he represented the Republic of Ireland national team from 2004 until 2017.

CULTURE



Adele Emily Sandé, MBE (/ˈsændeɪ/ SAN-day; born 10 March 1987), known professionally as Emeli Sandé,[2] is a Scottish[3] singer and songwriter. Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and raised in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by an English mother and a Zambian father,[4][5][6] Sandé rose to prominence after being a featured artist on the 2009 track "Diamond Rings" by rapper Chipmunk. It was the first top 10 single on the UK Singles Chart for both of them. In 2010, she was featured on "Never Be Your Woman" by the rapper Wiley, which was another top ten hit. In 2012, she received the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice Award.

Sandé released her first solo single "Heaven" in August 2011. She has two number-one singles across the UK and Ireland with "Read All About It" with Professor Green and "Beneath Your Beautiful", a collaboration with Labrinth. Her album Our Version of Events spent ten non-consecutive weeks at number one and became the best-selling album of 2012 in the UK, with over 1 million sales.[7][8] In 2012, she performed in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London Olympics.[9][10] In 2013, at the Brit Awards 2013 ceremony, she won two awards: Best British Female Solo Artist, and British Album of the Year.[11]

In 2016, she released her second studio album Long Live the Angels, which debuted at number 2 on the UK album chart. In 2017, she won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist, becoming her fourth win in total.

Her appearance at Glastonbury broke the record number of calls to Samaritans during her performance

TBA

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In The Dressing Room

Robbie Brady could return to training this weekend ahead of Monday’s match, after missing the past two fixtures through injury.

Ben Whiteman, who missed the defeat to Sheffield United with a groin issue, is unlikely to make the final match of the season.

There are no fresh injury concerns for Ryan Lowe to worry about, with only the longer-term absentees sidelined while Bambo Diaby is still missing through suspension.

A Look At Our Visitors


Sunderland will arrive at Deepdale on Monday still in with a chance of achieving a Play-Off spot.

Tony Mowbray’s side will need other results to go in their favour – with Coventry City and Millwall within their reach – but Sunderland will need to win either way if they are to have any chance.

The Black Cats have hit form at the right time of the season, having gone eight games unbeaten, and they’ll be backed by a sold-out away end at Deepdale.

Going Head To Head


Games played: 121
PNE wins: 34
Draws: 34
Sunderland wins: 53
Last victory: Sunderland 0-2 PNE, 17th March 2018

One To Watch

Amad Diallo – a youngster who has been regarded very highly at parent club Manchester United since his arrival from Atalanta since 2021 – has enjoyed a brilliant first season in the Championship.

The Ivory Coast international didn’t have the loan spell he would have hoped for with Rangers last term, but he has really shown his quality at the Stadium of Light this season.

A crucial part of their team, Amad has mainly operated from the right during the course of the campaign and has scored 12 goals along the way.

Match Official

Bobby Madley, the man who took charge of North End’s opening game of the season, will referee Monday's Championship finale.

Madley showed a red card to Ched Evans on that curtain-raising fixture against Wigan Athletic at the end of July, and that’s one of six he’s produced this season.

In total this campaign, Madley has refereed 22 games, showing 93 yellow cards and those six reds.

MACS VIEW

So we reach the end of a season that was a bit of a mixture, lot's of away wins, home defeats five on the trot, apparently we overachieve every season, tell that to Luton and Millwall who probably have similar sized budgets
Still not taken to Mr Fantastic who is happy to take the kudos when we win but blames everyone else when we lose like last Saturday, be surprised if Parrott plays can't have a go at Mr Fantastic can we now!!!
Visitor's Sunderland need to win think they will achieve that whether it will be enough is out of their hands
Sold 5600 should be a great atmosphere pity the visiting support probably won't see the Blackpool Road Cherry Blossom trees in full glory given it's blowing a gale at the moment

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Now on Sky

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Preston North End 0 Sunderland 3 Diallo, Pritchard,Clarke

PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Bauer, Lindsay; Potts, Ryan Ledson, McCann, Fernández; Parrott (Onomah, 55); Cannon, Delap (Woodburn, 69). Subs not used: Cornell, Slater, Leigh, Mawene, Kamara.

Sunderland line-up: Patterson; Gooch (Anderson, 66), Hume, O’Nein, Cirkin (Pritchard, 45); Neil, Ekwah (Lihadji, 86); Roberts, Diallo (Ba, 86), Clarke; Gelhardt (Michut, 73). Subs not used: Bass, Taylor.

Attendance: 21,177 (5,714 Sunderland fans).

Referee: Mr R Madley.

As end of season games go this was entertaining until Sunderland took the lead apart from a Bauer header which was well saved by Patterson the second half was all one way.

FIRST HALF

We were excellent for 15 minutes could have had a couple of goals but final ball just did not drop in the right areas to capitalise on it and when we did get a clear site of goal with Delap through on a one on one he beat the keeper but put the ball wide of the left hand post.
Both sides were missing players, no Johnston, Whiteman or Browne for us so midield was light, also Hughes who was named in the side withdrew before the kick off. We had a selection of kids on the bench.
Once our initial flurry had died out Sunderland began to get on top, Roberts and Gelhardt had both been denied by Woodman the save from Roberts was outstanding..
They claimed a penalty however blatant dive and had a generous amount of help from Mr Madley who gave us one free kick to 18 for Sunderland.
As the half drew to close atmosphere had gone down as result at that time were not going the way of the Black Cats

Second half
Pritchard on as substitute changed the game, struggled to contain him, then three goals in eleven minutes won them the game, to be fair all the goals were decent, first Diallo first time shot from a rebound, Woodman no chance. The second Pritchard again fro outside the box picked his spot past an unsighted Woodman, then Clark
ran at the defence after Ledson's usual inability to stay on his feet when trying to tackle, the shot found the bottom right corner game over.
Also had gone close twice as well Neil and Ekwah the latter agin denied by a great Woodman save.
The only interest then as the rain absolutely hammered down was scores from other games and with Millwall's collapse the Black cats get the play offs decent bet to go close.

Finally the away support was tremendous and well behaved, sung the National Anthem in full voice

Preston manager Ryan Lowe:

"We've given it a good go but it's not been today or Sheffield United that's cost us the play-offs, it's from games earlier on in the season.

"I said about mentality, I don't mean they're not giving everything, I mean being savvy and taking the opportunities. We went out all guns blazing and we wanted to have a right good go.

"We fell short by six points but in the grand scheme of things, it's not bad. For us and clubs like us, we need to keep building and I think we're going in the right direction, we just need that little bit extra."

Sunderland boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Radio Newcastle:

"We started a bit sloppy with too many turnovers of the ball, but we grew into it. It was like a basketball game in the first half and we needed to control it better, and yet it's difficult when you don't have a natural centre-half to organise people around them.

"We were a bit naive and let them have too many chances. But we became more confident on the back of the first goal.

"I'm delighted for the supporters; it's an incredible scenario to see the people of Sunderland enjoying their football so much and coming in their huge numbers. It will be awesome on Saturday [against Luton] at the Stadium of Light.

"I always believe that we have really talented attacking footballers and if we get the ball to them they will score - and they did.

"Blackburn helped us and we got the job done. If you finish sixth after 46 games, that's where you deserve to finish."

A massive thanks go to Alvaro deserves a lot of success, as does Tom Cannon, thanks to Parrott and Delap will probably have to leave Spurs and City respectively to go furthe.
Looks like DJ will leave the club had the end of season out of contract injury been here eight years and possibly gone a bit stale will be missed
Possibly Ched will have to retire, as for the manager still not convinced have witnessed some atrocities this season including wins, whether he will get the backing no one knows, clubs at the crossroads, could be a long season next year

Finally thanks to those who have read thes usually inane ramblings

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