Change in goal for Sunderland

Sunderland boss Mick McCarthy dropped under-fire keeper Kelvin Davis for the visit to Highbury, replacing him with teenager Ben Alnwick for his Barclays Premiership debut.

Sunderland boss Mick McCarthy dropped under-fire keeper Kelvin Davis for the visit to Highbury, replacing him with teenager Ben Alnwick for his Barclays Premiership debut.

Davis was booed by a section of the home crowd for his mistakes during Sunderland’s embarrassing 4-1 defeat by Portsmouth last weekend and was duly dropped to the bench.

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