TheBrownBottle

That turn and burst into the area was simply a top class player in action - and he was constantly looking at his options, none of this head-down shite. The lad just looks first rate to me - we’ve got a wonderful footballer on our hands, lads and lasses

Likewise, I thought Burn was average more than poor - neither were more than 6/10

Trippier 8 Burn 5? Woof, that’s harsh on Burn and not anywhere near where I’d have Trippier

Now we’ve just got to hope our utterly banal and useless local press don’t ramp up the pressure by constantly asking Howe and the team if they know how long it’s been since we won out. They fucking know, you bellends - they don’t need reminding every single press conference.

Geed up

You’re allowed back into the Peregrine in Chapel Hoose Adam

Hahahhaha

If Joelinton’s was that is too

Comedy stuff. Fenton strikes

Class by Isak. Sheer fucking class

YEERESS! FUCKIN YES

Table means little in the cups, but Southampton haven’t played out of their skin here

Just my take, and Howe knows best, but Joelinton is … Joelinton in attacking positions. Looks a million times better in the centre of midfield - and Bruno looks WC when he’s there with him. Can’t abide him on the LW

And another from Botman

Old school Joelinton returns!

Would take 0-0 in the first leg any time mind. Plenty of time to better that though

Freudian typo there

Any chance we can ask Longstaff not to shoot? Like, hold the ball and look for a better option?

Another who hasn’t looked at his best post-WC - though he did have a form dip before that tbf. Doesn’t make him bad, of course, but it’s been a while since he had one of those superhuman performances.

At the risk of bringing down a lot of ire here, Joelinton’s hand moves towards the ball. You can see it from a couple of camera angles. It’s a pisser, but there is no way they’re going to give it. Generally speaking our passing has been woeful at times, and our finishing is wasteful. We’ve still been the better side by a mile, which indicates just how shite Southampton has been. 0-0 quarter of the way through though; can’t be too unhappy

If it is truly heartfelt, then those who want to show their support for victims of Saudi aggression should be writing to their MPs for more Yemeni asylum seekers to be allowed into the country, and for Sunderland to be at the front of the queue as a destination. I’m sure they’ll find swathes of support in that beacon of progressive values. For what it’s worth, some of what is happening in Yemen is genuinely horrifying - that these ghouls would try to weaponise it out of a sense of petty jealousy of another football club is so risible and contemptible that it is genuinely embarrassing to be from the same fucking region as them.

Manquillo won't, nor will Dubravka or Karius. Eight is the magic number tbf

Most would have paid their plane fares home

I've seen a few mention it - and not in a jokey way, either. We're a couple of years away from those types of signings

Pretty much everyone I know didn't think Bellamy would be any good either - his form for a relegated Coventry team had been shite the year before, after being a highly rated young'un at Norwich. That panned out ok in the end ...