the mackems are very quiet after sat's result

the mackems are very quiet after sat's result

sorry, couldnt resist!

I still hope they get promoted ...

it'll bring back derby day ...

cos lets be honest boro aint a derby ...

and fuck do i miss derby day ...

NOWT BETTER

Nah no excuses - MM cost us the game with 2 very questionable substitutions!

Think he'd been on the crack or something!!

Its all fine and well having 8000 away fans mid week, but the atmosphere at SOL yesterday was plenty of empty seats too

:bang:

early kick off, it was on sky, still 34,000 there !

totally agree with u there, wot was the crack with taking myhre off? Putting Whitley on fooked it up for us, the midfield lost its shape and then he gave the penalty away the numpty!

Still top though with 2 hard away games to play at West Ham and Ipswich hopefully we can win at least one of them.

Apparently Myhre pulled a back muscle!

Yeah whitley was the death of us....midfield as u say totally lost shape and it filtered thru the team..we were all over!!

Be interesting if Ipswitch win tomorrow

Puts them 2 points behind us and we ply em on friday - tough/important game!!!

yeah its not over yet and it wouldnt be Sunderland if they never had us on the edge of seats til the last game.

haha thats what i was sayin at the match. we could NOT have won...cos then it wouldnt be sunderland!!! nail biting stuff till the end!

I'am not to sure you can criticise the substitutions to be honest mate, winning 1-0 with 20 minutes to go if you have a defensive minded midfield player on the bench you bring him on for an attacking player to try and shore up what you have, the thinking behind the substition was that with Whitley coming on we should be tighter in the middle and Whitehead going across to the right hand side would make us tighter, obviously that did not happen but in affect it should of if you know what i mean.

Big black veteran target man getting put on late in the game to cause havoc @ SOL was meant to be Brian Deane, instead Sir Les stole the show

Did he shite

The atmosphere was piss poor!

Time of the match and wether its on tv or not dont matter

When he came on Reading were 1-0 down, they changed the way they played & started lumping the long balls up-front to Sir Les & Kitson & Caldwell & Breen couldnt cope.

SOURCE OF INFO: GARY ROWELL ON METRO FM

I thought he was very very quiet and won next to nothing

Rowell said otherwise

sorry i think its right to criticise the subs because the centre of midfield was dominating and was keeping it shape well, when he brought Whitley on Whitehead didnt know where he was, Robinson was left isolated and the balance had gone. MM should admit he made a mistake and get on with it.

but the introduction of veteran striker Les Ferdinand midway through the second half changed the face of a game the home side should have wrapped up by the interval.

Source of Info:Sunderland-Mad

Both now 38, Ferdinand and Keown are required to ration their appearances but the erstwhile pair stepped off the bench to devastating effect,

Source of Info: The Guardian

In liberating veterans Martin Keown and Les Ferdinand from the substitutes' bench, Reading's manager altered the topography of a game which had appeared well beyond the Royals' reach.

While Ferdinand's flick facilitated Dave Kitson's run and shot beyond Michael Ingham - a half-time replacement for the injured Thomas Myhre, whose pulled muscle may rule him out of next Sunday's all-important trip to Ipswich - Keown disrupted Sunderland's passing rhythm

Source of Info:
sport.telegraph.