It is not often in life that good things happen in combination, or that a combination of things brings good.
That's my story anyway. But while inviting the many readers who dislike or misunderstand football to retreat to earlier postings, I must record that the entire Salut! empire is tonight en fête.
Sunderland lost, as was completely expected, but so did the other teams that mattered to us at the bottom of the Premier League. Those other teams include Newcastle United, who have won nothing in living memory but act as if they pop new silverware into the trophies cabinet every season.
So the Toon are well and truly Doon - as faithfully reported at Salut! Sunderland, and probably smashing up the Bigg Market as I write. Condolences to the decent, ordinary, human Newcastle supporters I know. Both of them.
And think of it this way: no one can ever say relegation was handed to you on a plate. You won it on your own merits.
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