Bumbling Black Cats must get claws out

A WEEK ago today I woke up to three text messages and I immediately assumed all three were April Fool’s jokes.

The first involved a pal falling asleep on a wine glass and slicing his throat open leading to five hours of surgery, the second informed me Alan Shearer was Newcastle United’s new manager and the third that Djibril Cisse had been arrested outside a lap-dancing bar on Tyneside overnight.

The latter sums up most of what’s wrong at Sunderland at the moment. Regardless of whether Flashy Pants was drinking, lap dancing or even just walking past, it’s bad enough that he ventures to Newcastle, let alone at 3am. It smacks of being unprofessional.