SAFC Supporters Summer Meeting Estonia 2009 03. Dec 08 / 10:35 Comments (2) We are glad to announce that SAFCSCEF Summer Meeting 2009 will take place in Estonia, Põlva town on 4th July.

Teemu is a Mackem! 03. Sep 08 / 08:25 Comments (247) Teemu Tainio ( nickname Teme ) is the first Finnish player to represent Sunderland. When Denis Smith was manager we had a Finnish international forward called Kimmo Tarkkio playing in a trialmatch for Sunderland. Manager Smith was not at all happy with Tarkkios defending. In some comments, Tarkkio is named as one of worst if not the worst triallist player ever to wear a Sunderland shirt ! That is a bit harsh on my opinion as there have been loads of triallists over the years. Back to Teemu; 29 years old in November. Teemu began his career in Northern Finland in his home town club; Tornion Pallo- 47 . At the very early age of sixteen ( 16 ) he joined one of the best sides in Finnish first division ; Valkeakosken Haka. Such was his talent that after only a season in Valkeakoski ,he moved on. He had many options but chose Auxerre in France. Under legendary coach Guy Roux , Teemu played 150 times for Auxerre. In that period Auxerre played in the Champions League ( 2002 ) , won the French Cup ( 2003 ) and reached the UEFA Cup -quarterfinals ( 2005 ). Auxerre sold Teemu to Tottenham in 2005 . In three seasons he played total of 83 league and cup matches for Spurs. Teemu is one of the first names ( when fit ! ) the Finnish national team manager; currently Stuart Baxter; puts to the team sheet. Central midfield is Teemus preferred position ; sometimes he is used on the right side of midfield. His passing variety is good and his tackles are well-timed and hurting ! All in all Teemu will be a great addition to the Sunderland squad. We ( all the Sunderland-fans in Finland !) think Teemu is a must for Sunderland XI. (by Ismo Koskell)

12 Days of Christmas 12. Jan 07 / 13:24 Comments (0) Christmas started on December 22nd for Tafka and aiFo. Here you can read about their 12-days long trip to England including 4 games of Sunderland Championship campaign. Clicky!

No Five-In-A-Row... 14. Jun 06 / 17:53 Comments (0) Estonian-Finnish SAFC Supporters team failed to complete their fifth successful win over NUFC fans of Estonia. After interesting and passionate match it ended with 0-2 loss against stronger as ever magpies side. Mackems were under pressure since the match was kicked off, but as building their tactics to counter attack nothing dangerous happened, until mags got their goal from well placed shot in the end of first half. Second half was much more attacking from Mackems side, but sadly were skunks again the lucky side for scoring in the end of the game. It was the very first time for mags to get win over Esto-Finnish Mackems. Next match will be played next year in Finland. The revenge will come! (and hopefully match report and more pictures as well :))

We Always Win 2-1!!! How long? ;) 24. Jul 05 / 21:37 Comments (0) Estonian-Finnish SAFC branch got another great victory in a game what was more like "shoot the Mackems goal as long as you can (and all the time)!"-game. Well supported Mackems team met a heaviest opponent ever. Magpies had a highly motivated team full of talented players, but sadly (ok, it depends on side ;)) Estonian mags had no cover from Finland (AGAIN!) and they needed to play with one substitute only. As one magpie said after the match, losing a game wasn't half as sad as the RESULT! You can get match report here.

Easy Come, Easy Go – Top Flight! 06. Jun 05 / 17:10 Comments (0) Sakari writes about our March trip, what took 7 members of our branch to Sunderland, to see SAFC win Coventry City and go to top of the league. Read it here! .

An Englishman in Estonia 28. Nov 04 / 14:23 Comments (0) Several months after fan match aiFo finally found some time to put up story about our Sunderland friends crazy trip to Estonia helping us beat the skunks. This version of Monk's story contains only 3 first days of his trip. There is also available a bit more at MackemBoozer, but the fact is that Monk haven't finished his story yet. Nobody (except Flicky:)) knows what happened in last part of their trip, how did they return to Wearside, why Monk haven't finished his story, will they ever return to Estonia...? Ok, here you can find a little story about lads who accidentally have became a well-known poster stars of Legion of Light ;) Clicky!

Our Branch Flag at SOL! 28. Sep 04 / 16:09 Comments (1) Dear friends. As some of you already know our branch flag is up next to others at the North Stand of the Stadium of Light since the beginning the new season. Thanks to SAFC Publications manager Rob Mason we have finnaly a picture of it. Larger version of picture available here. '

We beat them again! 06. Jul 04 / 19:53 Comments (3) June 12th, 2004. Põlva Town Stadium SAFC Supporters Est/Fin 1 (Sakari 49') NUFC Supporters Est 0 Match report is available here. Also you can find some pictures of the event from picture gallery. As we are quite busy at the moment there are only thumbnail-sized pictures available, but it's better than nothing so far. You can find 25 pictures of fanmatch from our gallery. Cheers! C U all next year in Finland!

aiFo in Sunderland 16. Apr 04 / 11:33 Comments (0) Finally aiFo has finished his work with report what is basing on his Sunderland trip in March 2004. So far it was something like "Trip of His Life". As you see it's really huge one and needs a lot of time to dive it through. Hopefully you have enough time. Read the report