Poyet changes starting 11, team name, club history at half time Read more at http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...me-club-history-half-time#6AxfRheKhk02V5fo.99 please log in to view this image Gus Poyet made some sweeping changes during Sunderlandâs friendly with Hartlepool, Paul Watson reports... Sunderland manager Gus Poyet took full advantage of the chance to experiment during his sideâs 3-0 pre-season win over Hartlepool United. With his side struggling to break the deadlock, the Uruguayan tactician opted to make wholesale changes just after the hour mark. Poyet switched his entire starting 11, bringing on his Under-21 players instead - a process that took most of the next half an hour to complete for the hapless fourth official. As the new men came on, Poyet issued them with a new kit that he had fashioned himself during a first half predominantly spent hunched over a sewing machine. Pulling on their shirts, players discovered that the teamâs name had been changed to Sunderland Wanderers - a club with a rich history that Poyet had created on the bus to the game. When players questioned Poyet, he revealed that he was no longer answering to that name, having withdrawn many of his letters for the second half. âGs Pyt [Gus Poyet] made some big changes but I guess thatâs what pre-season is for,â John OâShea told FourFourTwo before being replaced by George Honeyman. âItâs up to the gaff[er] to try out every possible combination of the 130 men at his disposal and to see whether weâd do better playing in a hastily produced lime green shirt,â Honeyman asserted. âIâm just proud to get the chance to play for Wanderers - the same club who famously won the Italian League six times in the 1920s having got lost at sea on the way to Brighton.â Poyetâs moves succeeded and Wanderers eased to a 3-0 victory that was applauded by Sunderlandâs travelling fans, who were replaced after 80 minutes by another group of travelling fans under Poyetâs instructions.
**** knows mate, think it may be some kind of exaggerated piss take on poyet's substitutions. This man is not funny.
not very a analytical report either didn't mention whether it was a treadle or a electric sewing machine