Keane still confident of automatic promotion

SUNDERLAND boss Roy Keane is still confident of securing automatic promotion to the Premiership despite seeing his side crash to a 3-1 defeat at play-off hopefuls Colchester on Saturday.

Late goals from Richard Garcia and Jamie Cureton meant the Black Cats suffered their first Championship defeat of 2007, after Dwight Yorke had cancelled out Wayne Brown’s first-half header.

However, Keane was not too downbeat after the defeat.