Even more gloom after pilgrimage to Pompey

RECENTLY your average Sunderland fan has spent the weekend like this – moan after a Saturday defeat and then hope and pray everyone else loses so we don’t slip any further.

This time around it was our turn to put in a soulless performance on Monday night after everybody else had done so.

Thankfully my weekend was made an awful lot better as I set off from the office on Friday night. Just as I was about to switch my laptop off, an email arrived confirming that A Love Supreme had won UK Fanzine of the Year for the eighth time and second year in-a-row, as well as Best Premier League website.