Colin Randall writes: as I was saying at ESPN – http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/sunderland/id/2811?cc=5739 – the day started and ended well. The only problem was the bit in between, as bad as Newcastle had been good. Hull’s dominance of possession was so overwhelming at times that it was frankly embarrassing. Being down to 10 offers part of the reason but if, as Eric Bowers has put it elsewhere on these pages, Gary Bennett thought Hull would have won even with 11 vs 11, I fear he may have been right. Let Pete Sixsmith, my excellent host for part of the weekend, take up the sorry story …