According to a straw poll at the US football site Across the Pond – it follows English football, not the quite different American sport – between one in four and one in five readers believes Sunderland will beat Manchester City in the League Cup final.
I put that down to my influence. The percentage was only 18 when I recorded a podcast with Chris Bowerbank and his colleagues which has gone live today.
Unlike Goldy and Gareth, I am unfamiliar with podcasts and the Garageband program on my Mac which we used to capture the conversation. Chunks were lost, which may or may not be any bad thing.
Chris did his best to knit the rest together and you can hear it at the following link. Beyond the poll (22 per cent backing us last time I looked), it’s wide-ranging discussion on matters SAFC ….
http://www.acrossthepond.co/podcast.html
There is no compulsion to agree with a word I said.
And one in 5 Americans believes in alien abductions.
(http://www.omg-facts.com/Science/One-in-five-Americans-believes-in-alien/12153)
I wonder if it’s the same 20%.
(and it might explain what’s happened to Bardsley)