Instead of parrotting what you read in the papers and the richard the third-hand recycled opinions/gospels of Saints Lawro, Shearer, and Savage(!); why don’t you form your own opionion? The results haven’t gone our way with the likes of ManUamerica, the Qataris, and Russian Blues, but aside from the ManUamerica game, the others were won by margins; we were unlucky to come away with a draw from the ‘Etihad’, and but for the theatrics and gamesmanship of the hitherto unpunished Ramires, we wouldn’t have had a 2-0 deficit at the scum’s ground, notwithstanding the Jekyll & Hyde performance in either half from the players.
I won’t bother responding to the nonsense wind-up of your belief about the Spuds funded by a tax-exile.

Also, nobody insulted the city of Sunderland, certainly nobody’s has suggested it is a ‘wasteland’ – although I would happily claim such a description for the Seven Sisters end where our geographic rivals squat – but surely you should be questioning how can the team pull off such results as boxing the Blue Scum of Fulham in their own back yard play a style of football that could not be more different to the fare that seems to be offered up on such a regular basis home and away?

I like O’Neill, but he does seem to have developed a tendency at his last couple of clubs to let the pressure build up until the point it starts to have an impact on the players, which in turn influences the team performances. The wider issue I think faces Sunderland is that if O’Neill starts to begin to doubt himself, his players, and the directors’ support, he’ll walk away, and you could end up with the likes of somebody like McLeish.

Thanks for your comments. Whilst it does not bother me too much what you think, it is a shame that you didn’t enjoy your visit here. Perhaps you could visit more often and enjoy reading about a team that wins more games and plays better football than your striped cart horses.

WG

The sign of a good ‘keeper is outrageous self-belief mixed with a good work ethic and agility and Sczcesny appears to that these in spades.

WG

WG, nice snapshot post. The only point I’d question is that Sir Chesney didn’t have a whole lot to do last week when Mr Tony’s footbrawlers came to our gaff.