Neil

Moyes must be wanking himself silly at Kean's tactics.

There's surely no way Sunderland are so shit they can't muster a goal here?

In case of no genuine quality: Hit it really hard.

No. At least stuff has happened in this match.

If Sunderland lose this. Against an already shite defence, and Blackburn have made 3 enforced changes within the first 50 minutes. A Blackburn team already without 2 of their best players in Rochina and Hoilett.

Should probably have kept to "ultra-safe" DNB bets, as the Udinese game has had about zero action in the 1st half.

Lionel and company will be purring at that half of football.

Sunderland are in a very odd position. Nearly always when you talk about teams getting lucky with decisions, it's a reason put forward to explain why they're doing well. Yet this Sunderland team, despite having a catalogue of decisions go their way, are still doing crap! I can't be arsed to do a list but it wouldn't take long to think of a fair amount of things have that inexplicably gone their way this season. Take that first half. 1-0 down and despite Blackburn's defence looking inept, they could easily be further behind but for a clear penalty not being given and Westwood getting away with that disallowed goal very fortunately.

Sunderland, despite being crap, are consistently lucky. Countless decisions have somehow gone their way over the season and already this half, that's a clear penalty and a seemingly legitimate goal they've got away with.

Give them time man.

Not sure what's worse. Blackburn's defending or Sunderland's finishing.

Dortmund to score 2 or more. Udinese

Matter of time before Messi feeds it to Sanchez for 1-1.

Craig Charles with an awful miss.

lerl

Injured, I assume.

Why wasn't more made of that? Bramble tackles Yakubu, doesn't get the ball. Err, that's a clear penalty.

I think that's why Colback tackled Bardsley earlier.

The civil partnership with Jose has been put on hold, I'm informed.

Oh no. They're playing the "wet, cold day in Stoke" card.

Who cares about the details? Just sling in something about the buy-back clause so the article is complete.

Avoided disaster on Real last night. Only put on a couple of very low stakes scorer bets, which turned out to be a relief. David: thoughts on Dortmund and Bayern today?

No Hoilett. That'll tip it in Sunderland's favour IMO.