Given ‘the best keeper’

SUNDERLAND boss Mick McCarthy has warned his strikers they will have to beat the best goalkeeper in the Barclays Premiership if they are to collect all three points against Newcastle.

Having seen Shay Given repeatedly perform heroics for the Republic of Ireland, McCarthy knows just how stubborn an opponent he will be.

Given played 17 games for Sunderland on loan from Blackburn in 1996 before joining Newcastle and has enhanced his reputation for club and country since.