Time to move on from past

Having had to miss the Charlton match, the Sunday game against Scunthorpe was my first of the season and what a fantastic afternoon it was.

To see effort, tackles, an organised system with players working as a team, was a rare treat.

When the goals went in it was like an enormous weight had been lifted around the Stadium of Light.

The sun shone, the crowd were happy, we have a manager who knows what he is doing and will not stand any nonsense.

The new owners are positive and open to the fans

No more Ellis Short, Martin Bain, John O’Shea, Billy Jones, no more useless goalkeepers.

No more overseas or loan players who did not care less.

No more managers like Moyes, Grayson and Coleman and all failures before them, as they became just faded nightmares – or memories – depending on your point of view. Okay Cattermole was still there but he is now playing to the tune of the manager if he stays.

And mercifully no more Jack Rodwell. Which brings me to a main point of my letter.

Speaking personally and who knows maybe for others, could the Sunderland Echo football journalists please spare readers with stories on the future career of this individual and what he has to say about football?

That Rodwell has signed for Blackburn is of no interest to me.

Nothing about him is of the remotest interest.

He and others were part of a disgraceful period of our history that I want to forget, not be reminded.

Rodwell especially is, in my opinion, genuinely despised for his time as a “professional” footballer for our great club.

A request to the Sunderland Echo-Rodwell is most firmly the past.

Feelings, however, are still raw on how he conducted himself, taking an enormous sum of money for nothing in return. It is quite pointless writing about him.

Michael Dixon