Pretty much the same reason the Echo packed in, I think it said before the Norwich game, Sunderland have not kicked off at home at 3pm Saturday for ages...This and the rise of Smartphones, Internet and a rolling results service on SSN.

It has also shot up in price, it was 50p in 2008 and has gone up 100% since then to £1 today, the final nail really was the decision to move to a Sunday Morning Sports Paper, and I am not too sure, I think it was being printed out of the Region and had to be transported up here...

Fair play to the Echo for keeping it going for so long, but I bet it barely covered it's costs...Would not surprise me at all if Paywalls became the norm for papers