Respect: good. A win: better

ROY KEANE is backing the spirit of ‘73 to help Sunderland turn around their Premier League campaign today.

Memories of perhaps the greatest day in the club’s history will echo around the Stadium of Light ahead of the clash with Reading as Wearside rises to pay its respects to FA Cup final hero Ian Porterfield.

Porterfield, the man whose goal at Wembley shot down Don Revie’s Leeds superstars 34 years ago and wrote him into the city’s folklore, died at a Surrey hospice on Tuesday evening.

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