Yorkie’s meltdown a worrying trend
Fast forward seven days to last weekend’s game against Liverpool and it seems little has been learned. No new signings, although we’re still being told that plenty are on their way. Danny Higginbotham is confirmed, and Ian Harte and Southampton’s Kenwyne Jones are apparently set to arrive imminently, pushing our summer spending towards £35m, but will still leave us with a side lacking household names and, more importantly, proven Premiership quality.
Keane’s comments that there was a “fine line between loyalty and stupidity and there’s no doubt I have been stupid” seemed encouraging. The promise that “it won’t happen again. Dwight Yorke went off but there were other candidates, we just wanted a bit more pace in the middle,” had Sunderland fans collectively nodding their heads. At last a gaffer who was watching the same games as us and the end of Yorkie’s reign in the North East.
