Talking Points: Welcome Back, Last Season’s Sunderland
Let’s get into it… Welcome back, last season’s Sunderland.
Key points
- While watching Nottingham Forest do a number on Manchester City on Saturday night, I couldn’t help but notice how similar their performance was to many of our games last season.
- Of course, one win against Chelsea does not a summer make, but two wins against them helped give us our best season in generations so let’s just keep doing that please.
- When I referenced my constantly shifting opinions before, the role of Granit Xhaka in our struggles is probably the one that has shifted back and forth the most.
Brian, blessed are we By pure coincidence, the last Talking Points piece I wrote for the site was after the Man City game and it started with a lengthy section heaping praise on Brian Brobbey.
I did want to write something, however, so felt maybe a Talking Points article after another loss would be the perfect vehicle to get back into the saddle.
Additional details
- Xhaka still has a huge role to play this season, both on and off the pitch, however he very much doesn’t need to be the first name on the team sheet anymore.
- A few thoughts on Régis Thought I’d finish by taking a little step back from the match itself and talk about the position of the manager.
- Yes, he could be more clinical in front of goal (couldn’t we all?!) and it would be nice if he could last 90 minutes more often.
- I’ve sat down several times to try to write something that captured how I’ve felt during this crap period, however, my opinion has swung more than a Nicky Summerbee cross so it’s been impossible to capture anything at all.
- An acquaintance of mine, one of the leading lights of the Leeds U13s football coaching scene, remarked recently that football is an inherently straightforward affair: “Win your 50/50s and run your bollocks off”.
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