All sweetness at the Stadium of Light

IT’S been a long time since cup fever hit Wearside, but where the first team is failing, it looks like the kids are alright.

Although the senior side’s performances in the cups were inept, our youths are paying back the millions we began investing in our academy in 2003.

Whilst it might have slipped under the radar in the rest of Britain and indeed Ireland, SAFC’s U18s knocked out Liverpool in the FA Youth Cup in a 5-3 thriller last week.