Reid brings some relief but questions remain for Quinn

AMIDST the self-congratulatory back-slapping, Andy Reid posed an awkward question that might just have made his Sunderland team-mates stop and think as they sped from the Stadium of Light to their Christmas party in Leeds.

While most of his contemporaries were happy to lap up the adulation of a rare victory, only a second in nine games to ease relegation fears, Reid chose not to discuss the Ricky Sbragia Effect, but to ask why those very same players had so badly under-performed towards the end of the Roy Keane era.

“The win is a big relief and a lot of it is down to the initial reaction you get from players towards the new manager, but for me that’s a bit disappointing,” Reid mused.