Michael Oates

Michael Oates

@afootballeducation.bsky.social

👨🏻‍🦳|| Write & Blog || Author of ‘A Football Education’ and ‘Football’s Ancient Icons’📚|| #SAFC 🔴⚪️🚢🐈‍⬛ Blog ✍🏻👉🏻 http://afootballeducation.blogspot.co.uk

243 Followers 276 Following 59 Posts Joined Nov 2024
9 months ago
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'Til The End Tuesday 13th May 2025. The Stadium of Light, Sunderland. An emotional, rollercoaster of a night is nearing its conclusion. I glance at the c...

Latest piece is up on the blog👇🏻

Tuesday. Play offs. Ballard. Scenes🤷🏻‍♂️😄

#safc

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9 months ago
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'Til The End Tuesday 13th May 2025. The Stadium of Light, Sunderland. An emotional, rollercoaster of a night is nearing its conclusion. I glance at the c...

Latest piece is up on the blog👇🏻

Tuesday. Play offs. Ballard. Scenes🤷🏻‍♂️😄

#safc

afootballeducation.blogspot.com/2025/05/til-...

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1 year ago

Bad weekend for Sky so far aint it. We won last night, most of the pundits having played for Sheff Wed and now Leeds not winning either.

I can here the expletives from Curtis Davies and Andy Hinchcliffe from here😂

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

Preston 0-0 Burnley eh?

Sky will be absolutely devastated by that result, although they can still drone on about Burnley’s defensive record.

If Leeds don’t beat us on Monday, what an awful weekend it will have been for Chambers, Mackie, Parkin, Davies and co.😂

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

Louza committed three fouls, two were bookings. The Isidor booking was awful, to miss the pull on Isidor was also awful, and to not book Cirkin a second time was probably the wrong decision also. The worst bit was only adding on five minutes at the end, should have been at least eight or nine.

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1 year ago

We weren’t at it at all today, not at our best by any stretch.

However, I find myself saying this at least four or five times a season…

For the love of God, can someone, anyone, whoever it may be, just stop putting Premier League referees in charge of EFL matches. Please, just stop.

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

If it’s true Fulham have made a bid of £20m for Trai Hume then we have to accept.

I love Hume but that’s an awful lot of money and surely there’d be a full back out there that we can adequately replace him with?

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

Oh aye. We aren’t flavour of the month atm, or any month for that matter😂

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1 year ago

Sky absolutely hate us at the minute mind.

“The top three are pulling away from the rest”🤔

We are three points off the automatic places🤷🏻‍♂️😂

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

Burnley vs Leeds tonight, a big one that’s for sure.

I’ll be watching with interest. For what it’s worth, I think Leeds will win.

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

I think we can add Sam Parkin to the ever growing list of Sky pundits that dislike us😂

Seeing things a lot differently to me tonight!

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

Just about over Friday night (I think!)😂

Let’s put it right tonight. I think we will. Three points and back on track.

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago

I’m liking all this live EFL games on ITV stuff, I’m all for it.

I think it’s quite refreshing to see. Long may it continue.

#safc #lufc #swfc

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1 year ago

When you watch Ipswich play, you can see why Jack Clarke doesn’t play. He just doesn’t fit. Broadhead and Hutchinson are narrow in this system, Clarke needs to be wide, very wide, and it’ll not happen in this system. If they stay up they’ll sell him.

#safc #itfc

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1 year ago

Same!

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1 year ago

I think it is haha those days were peak autograph hunting times for me. I’m 99% sure😄

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1 year ago

I’m fairly confident the N is Nicky Summerbee. Reidy’s is on there as well. A brilliant little item!

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1 year ago

I’d say possibly the season after Laura, because I’m sure the top signature on the first photo is Stefan Schwarz. You have Quinn, Phillips, Rae and Gray on there too. Some good ones!

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1 year ago

Yeah probably, we had a go at them at Craven Cottage which resulted in a great game. The others? All awful games.

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1 year ago

Probably all of them Chris!😂

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1 year ago

Doesn’t make great reading at all Neil

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1 year ago
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It’s a poor recent FA Cup record, isn’t it?🤔

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1 year ago
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Enzo Le Fée is ready to go ✍️

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1 year ago
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Are you ready to go? 🎬

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1 year ago
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What a signing 🔥

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago
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John Middleton Campbell - Sunderland's Original Club Legend⚽ John Middleton Campbell Born 19 th  February 1870 Died 8 th  June 1906, Aged 36 Centre Forward Renton FC - Sunderland AFC – Newcastle United...

This is a piece I wrote last year on one of Sunderland AFC’s first football icons; an early pioneer of the association game in England.

One I’m proud to have written. Give it a read and a share, it’s greatly appreciated☺️

The link is below👇🏻

🔴⚪️ #safc

afootballeducation.blogspot.com/2023/09/john...

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1 year ago
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1 year ago

Made hard work of that today, but winning ugly is how you get promoted.

Clean sheet as well, which is always welcome. Jobe absolutely outstanding again today.

Superb finish from Isidor too😄

🔴⚪️ #safc

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1 year ago
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John Middleton Campbell - Sunderland's Original Club Legend⚽ John Middleton Campbell Born 19 th  February 1870 Died 8 th  June 1906, Aged 36 Centre Forward Renton FC - Sunderland AFC – Newcastle United...

This is a piece I wrote last year on one of Sunderland AFC’s first football icons; an early pioneer of the association game in England.

One I’m proud to have written. Give it a read and a share, it’s greatly appreciated☺️

The link is below👇🏻

🔴⚪️ #safc

afootballeducation.blogspot.com/2023/09/john...

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1 year ago

Another day for braving the elements isn’t it? But I wouldn’t miss it for the world.

It’s what it’s all about😄

We should win today, Pompey have only picked up seven points on the road; and why do I feel like there’ll be a surprise pick in today’s starting XI?🤔

🔴⚪️ #safc

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