A familiar problem came back to haunt us yesterday: the lack of a goalscorer. In an otherwise excellent return to the Premier League, the fact that our top scorers with just five are Brian Brobbey and Enzo Le Fee (a midfielder who says he doesn’t score goals) - tells its own story. Brobbey had an awful game here, although to be fair to him the service to him in a stop-start first half was non-existent, with the erratic and short-lived Jocelin Ta Bi in particular failing to get a decent ball...

Following the frenzied hype that has accompanied Sunderland’s excellent start to the season, Saturday’s disappointment should be seen as a healthy dose of reality. In recent weeks, we have seen the same ‘expert’ pundits who were certain we would finish bottom queuing up to say we are the best thing since sliced bread. As with everything these days, you are either the best or the worst. The same people who have been predicting Europe, after a couple of performances like Saturday will be saying...

Tommy Watson! That a brilliant young local lad, who had been booed by his own friends for his premature exit, supplied the crowning...