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Awards

• Listed in The Times' "Football Handbook" supplements, in The Times once a month (on a Saturday), and also distributed at football matches - 2000/1 and 2001/2 season
• Listed as one of the (Daily) Mirror's Top Ten Sunderland AFC websites - January 21st 2002
• First Sunderland website to announce Niall Quinn's benefit match... back on New Year's Eve 2001
• News distributed via the NewsNow newsfeed (since May 2002)
• Published release dates for the new Sunderland kits in the last two seasons (01/02 and 02/03)
• First Sunderland website to announce the signing of Sean Thornton in April 2002 (signing was completed in July 2002)
• First Sunderland website to announce the signing of Matthew Piper in August 2002 (signed the day after our story was published)
• First Sunderland website to announce the dual signings of Tore Andre Flo and Marcus Stewart in August 2002 (both signed the day after we published the stories)
• First Sunderland website to announce the swap-deal involving Michael Proctor and Darren Byfield in February 2004 (the story was confirmed hours later, and the transfer took place the following day)
• We broke the real news behind Thomas Butler's disappearance from Sunderland AFC - which the club confirmed in July 2004
• And we also told you first why Butler was suing the club (July 28, 2004) - two months before anyone else

Site History

OneSunderland.com been online since July 4th 2001, (and since May 2006 as 1Sunderland.com) but the team behind OneSunderland/1Sunderland have been covering SAFC for a lot longer than that!

We first started out in March 1998, with a small site called "MackemNet". Everything existed on one page, with everything like news and match reports existing on the same page. When you consider the large background image we used then (okay, we were novices then!), it took a long time to load!

Things have improved since then. Around a year later, we redesigned ourselves as "MackemOnLine". This lasted for a season (with a better design, this time it did look half decent), before we changed to SAFCnet.

SAFCnet was a joint production between MackemOnLine and long-running SAFC site SAFCworld. With a sleek design (with a picture of Micky Gray featuring heavily on the main menu, for around a year anyway), and regularly updated news, the popularity of the site grew to new levels... until we appeared in the Sunderland Echo in January 2000. After our front-page appearance (on the same day when the Lads were cheated out of the FA Cup against Tranmere), the weekly hits to SAFCnet more than doubled.

After two years, it was time to move on. The hosts for SAFCnet were unable to offer us the flexibility we wanted, without paying an extortionate price. So OneSunderland took over from SAFCnet, and we will continue along the same vein as we have done.

At OneSunderland, we aim to keep providing the latest hard hitting news and gossip from Sunderland AFC - whether it's in the Premiership, the Football League, or beyond.