We need to start picking up points

AFTER spending most of last week exchanging offensive text messages with acquaintances from Tyneside, it’s with relief and a tinge of deflation that we move on from last weekend’s tense derby game.

Whilst it’s great to see that Roy Keane’s class of 2007 aren’t the sort to bottle the big occasions like these, it’s disappointing that we dominated the match but didn’t come away with a win and fingers must be pointed.

I remember after the first game of the season, Birmingham had conceded a couple of soft goals at Stamford Bridge and it was pointed out that “Sunderland have shelled out £9m to avoid those sorts of mistakes.”