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Typical Sunderland


 

There have been numerous occasions this season when the phrase “typical Sunderland” has been uttered, usually with the odd expletive inserted at random, and with complete justification thanks to the number of times we’ve done something inexplicably daft. Take Norwich equalising in the last minute as our defence stood stock-still, Clarke-Salter getting sent off on his return from a red-card suspension as Coleman was trying to substitute him, or loanee Brendan Galloway being so inept that we sent him back early. Doing daft things in football almost always comes in conjunction with being a bit on the rubbish side, which is something that we’ve been pretty consistent at. Over recent seasons, the number of situations involving our club that have made the phrase “typical Sunderland” part of general football parlance have occurred with monotonous regularity. Other clubs have done daft t