Haway The Podcast – Sunderland AFC

Sunderland head north to Edinburgh today to take on Hearts of Midlothian, a game to commemorate the career of Craig Gordon — and there’s lots to talk about, so the Lads got together for a chinwag ahead of this afternoon’s festivities! Will Craig Gordon be fit enough to play in today’s game?! Are we excited about potentially getting to see Reinildo for the first time? Chris Rigg and Anthony Patters...

Lots has changed since we last spoke to Scott Wilson before the Playoff Semi Final with Coventry, so we thought we'd catch up with the man who covers Sunderland for the Northern Echo and to grab his thoughts on how the club's summer preparations are going ahead of the new season! How does Sunderland's summer compare to others that Scott has covered for promoted clubs? Are high-profile transfer dea...

Oh no - for the very first time, the Lads get together to do a top ten that features the worst of something - and this time, it’s a nice follow up to our last Top Ten Podcast as we chat about Sunderland’s worst foreign imports! To qualify, players must have featured in at least ten games, which helped us whittle down the list slightly. However, there were still dozens of players who could have bee...

News has emerged that our club and Granit Xhaka have agreed terms on a deal, and that he “only wants” Sunderland. Whilst bringing in a genuine superstar would be an unbelievable coup for the club, where would this leave Dan Neil, who is in the final year of his contract? Gav, Chris, Andrew and Bomber chat about the potential signing of the Bayer Leverkusen midfielder, the make-up of Sunderland’s P...

Sunderland lost against Portuguese champions Sporting Lisbon to close out our mini-tour of the Algarve, but there were plenty of positives to take from our performance and, as such, the Lads got together at full time to react to what they saw. The midfield trio of Diarra, Sadiki and Le Fee had us purring - just how good do they look?! Our patterns of play are promising when you consider how little...

The smell of woodbines are back in the air, so breathe it in and join Chris, Andrew and Kelvin as they take a walk down memory lane to chat about some interesting happenings that happened on this week in the history of Sunderland AFC! Responding to letters regarding last week's craic about Cloughie! Discussing a pre-season friendly v Nissan FC in 1984... Memories of Mel Holden Is Eddie Burbanks th...

More new Sunderland transfer news emerged on Sunday morning, so of course Gav sent out the bat signal and managed to get a couple of Lads to sit and chat about it with him - so joining us on today's show are Andrew Smithson, RR regular and Sunderland historian, and the Sunderland Echo's James Copley! On today's agenda: Sunderland's €20m move for Sassuolo's Armand Laurienté is off - and we can only...

Martin is back from his holidays and launched straight into action as he and Andrew get together on the full time whistle to discuss Sunderland's 1-1 draw with Sevilla in the Algarve! On the agenda today... • Two very different line ups in the first half and second – what hints does that give us about the approach to the season • Two different tactical approaches, too... • The ref. Haway man. We k...

The Lads are back in action tonight and are taking on top La Liga opposition in Sevilla, whilst our relentless assault upon the transfer market is showing no signs of slowing down - join Gav and Andrew as they look ahead to Sunderland's friendly in Portugal and chat about all the latest mackem transfer news! The Portugal pre-season camp has been a great success, but we kick off tonight with our fi...

Andy Sixsmith - a Premier League reporter who covers both of the north east clubs in the top flight - joins us to chat about Sunderland's Premier League return! On today's agenda: We talk about Andy's recent visit to the Academy of Light to meet the players and staff How long could he have talked to Luke O'Nien? Had Wilson Isidor ever heard of our friends up the road? How good is the atmosphere ar...

Roll up, roll up... Sunderland's busy summer shows no sign of relenting, and we are here to chat about all the latest transfer news! Former Arsenal captain Granit Xhaka has been linked with a move to Wearside - what would he add to our team? Bologna central defender Jhon Lucumi is apparently on Sunderland's radar, highlighting that signing a centre half is a priority Monaco and PSV are linked with...

Ahead of his testimonial game between Hearts and Sunderland at Tynecastle on Saturday 26th July, we sat down for a chat with former Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon! How are the preparations going for his testimonial? Will he be fit for the game? How did it all start at Hearts? Craig tells us all about his time with the Lads... And then how he fought back from two years out to play at the top le...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another episode of Haway The Podcast! There's loads going on in the world of Sunderland AFC at the moment, so join Gav and Andrew as they have their say on the latest SAFC news, including: Transfers - we've been linked to another bunch of new names over the weekend, including an exciting young Moroccan attacking midfielder from Leicester City, and a couple of Premier...

We are back for another dose of Sunderland AFC history - join Chris, Kelvin, and Andrew (no Martin as he's still on his hols!) as they nerd out over some key moments in the history of our football club that just so happened to have occurred on a day from this particular week, including: The Lads talk about a proper Sunderland legend - Joe Joe Joe Bolton! Former Sunderland striker Brian Clough is o...

Who is the best foreign signing made by Sunderland since the Stadium of Light opened? Chris is joined by Gav, Andrew and Jonny as the Lads select their top tens and chat about some proper Sunderland heroes from over the years! Some excellent former Sunderland players didn't make the list, but we pay tribute to them anyways... Who was on our final shortlist - and is there anyone you disagree with u...

Sunderland are off and running in pre-season, wearing their lovely new blue away strip as we won at South Shields! Join Gav and Jonny as they chat all about the game and the main talking points, including: An impressive first showing from Habib Diarra! Good goals from Isidor, Mundle, Aleksic and Abdullahi Enzo in the six position... phoo The other top performers, like Paddy Roberts All of this and...

It's Saturday, the sunshine is cracking the flags, and Sunderland play football again for the first time in the 2025/26 season this afternoon! With that in mind, the lads got together for a chinwag and to discuss all the latest Sunderland AFC news, including: The Lads are playing today - and there's injury news... Florent Ghisolfi has been chatting to L'Equipe about his new role at Sunderland Upda...

FOOTBALL IS BACK, BABY! Yes, Sunderland kick off their pre-season campaign this weekend with our now regular annual jaunt on the metro to take on National League side Gateshead (now played at Hebburn Town FC's ground), and their neighbours from South Tyneside, National League North side South Shields. To get us back underway, we grabbed local non-league footy reporter and expert Mark Carruthers fo...

Sunderland's mental summer continues at the same pace as it has done for the last few weeks, and the news is coming thick and fast! Gav is joined by Brighton fan and podcaster Ryan Adsett from Talk Seagulls as we get the lowdown on Simon Adingra, whilst Craig and Bomber jump on to chat about all the news that broke on Tuesday, including: Brighton winger Simon Adingra jets in for talks and a medica...

Sunderland continue to make moves in the transfer market, and we're here to chat about it! Join Gav, Jonny and Ant as they chew the fat over all the latest goings on at the Stadium of Light, including: Reinildo Mandava signs for Sunderland on a free transfer - how important will his experience be? Sunderland's efforts to sign a goalkeepr take a knock as reports claim that Djordje Petrovic is set t...

Sunderland have had some brilliant full backs over the years, but who makes our top ten list since the Stadium of Light opened? Join Chris as he grills Gav, Jonny and Bomber on their choices - and believe me, some of these picks are absolutely wild and will have you tearing your hair out! We run through the names of the unfortunate souls who didn’t make our list... is there anyone you think should...

Join us for this week's episode of 'On This Week', looking back at some of the key moments from the club's history from July 6th - 13th! We go back to 1993 and discuss Mick Harford's departure from Roker We discuss Sean Thornton Kelvin tells us how good John Colquhoun actually was! We talk of Don Revie, Lee Chapman... ...and much much more! All of this and more - subscribe to Haway The Podcast so...

Sunderland look set to announce the signing of Club Brugge winger Chemsdine Talbi, but is he any good? We don't know, so we asked our marra Elijah Michiels - a video scout who expertises in Belgian football - to give us some insight into what Sunderland can expect from the 20-year-old Moroccan wide-man. Well, first things first - is he any good?! What does Elijah make of the deal, and the fee Sund...

Sunderland's players returned for pre-season this weekend, and the squad is looking a little bloated! So, Gav, Jonny and Bomber got together to run through the list of players they think could potentially leave, trying to work out what shape the squad will be in come the end of the summer. The big hitters like Patterson, Hjelde, Alese, Browne and Triantis are discussed Is there any way back for Pe...

Sunderland's summer spending spree continued this week with the €20m signing (not yet confirmed, but all but done!) of Noah Sadiki, a midfielder who plays for current Belgian Jupiler League Champions Union SG. To find out more about him and if he's any good we enlisted the help of Elijah Michiels - a video scout and analyst who specialises in Belgian football, and who previously worked as a video...