Rob Hutchison, our man of single word player assessments took a trip to the north bank of the Thames last …
This is one of those occasional guest posts from outsiders, in this case resulting from a collaboration with Superserp.com. It started out as a “will Giaccherini make the squad?” piece but that idea was scuppered by the announcement from Italy that made clear he had not made it. But was Cesare Prandelli right to overlook him – and, for that matter, was Poyet right to make so little use of him? …
John McCormick writes: M Salut went to the game but I didn’t see him in the crowd. I did see Peter Sixsmith, however, standing next to Sobs. Pete doesn’t like London games and I wondered if he’d be there, given next week.
The atmosphere around the Stadium of Light last night was not that of a club in crisis writes Malcolm Dawson. …