FC @SunderlandAFC · 15m15 minutes ago #SAFC team: Pantilimon, Jones, van Aanholt, O'Shea (c), Coates, Cattermole, Larsson, Johnson, Graham, Defoe, Wickham. #ARSSUN Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC · 15m15 minutes ago #SAFC subs: Rodwell, Fletcher, Reveillere, Giaccherini, Vergini, Buckley, Mannone. #ARSSUN Arsenal FC @Arsenal · 15m15 minutes ago .@Arsenal team to play Sunderland: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Ramsey, Cazorla, Wilshere, Ozil, Alexis, Giroud Arsenal FC @Arsenal · 15m15 minutes ago .@Arsenal subs: Szczesny, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Flamini, Rosicky, Walcott #AFCvSFC
I like it. Bridcutt is injured so not an option. Just means Seb plays a bit deeper and Johson takes up the "Gomez" role. Always thought he could do a job as a playmaker in the centre, will be interesting to see how he gets on...
No melodrama. This isn't Sunderland. This is the quietest, most unassuming, most sensitbly run Sunderland I've seen for far too many years. Get out there, live for it, die for it, and just bring that point home. Just bring it on home boys. Do it. Or don't come back in August. Tonight's your night.
If his 433 so far had been delivering an abundance of attacking football than fair play, but it hasn't, because the quality isn't there. Dreading it all of a sudden. Wenger hasn't ****ed about with his team selection.
This is going one way or the other for me. A 0-0 where the SAFC team bus is parked on the 18 yard line. Or an absolute humping 4 or 5 where we go for it and get torn a new one. Depends which Arsenal turn up. Hull tried to play them at their own game and got torn apart. Swansea didn't and look how they got on. I hope it's the most horrifically boring 0-0 in the history of football. Edit: just seen the team. Ohh ****.
Just seen on BBC that Brucie was getting the drinks in at Man Utd's end of year party. So much for worrying about any conflict of interest issues.
Just a little. I'm still sure that Utd will be professional on the day. Have to say though that if I was the manager of a team fighting to stay up, I don't think it would appropriate for me to socialise with the very team I'm playing to stay up a few days later, just so my integrity remained intact. That's just me though. Or, I could just be a little hyper-sensitive and crapping myself with just 25 minutes to go!
Gus... Ballsy... Attacking... Heroic... Idiotic. Fingers crossed he shows why he's in charge and not us tonight.
Why's that not a yellow for Ramsey, cynical. Sheep shagging ****, that's a yellow for Catts in a blink. ****er.