Miller absent for Black Cats

Sunderland boss Roy Keane will once again be without Liam Miller for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League trip to Reading.

Miller serves the second game of his three-match ban after being sent off at Chelsea.

Kieran Richardson (back) and Russell Anderson (ankle) are back in training but still some way from playing, while Nyron Nosworthy (hamstring) is progressing well, although Carlos Edwards (broken leg) will be out for some time.

Provisional squad: Ward, Gordon, McShane, Halford, Harte, Higginbotham, Collins, Yorke, Etuhu, Leadbitter, Wallace, Whitehead, Kavanagh, O’Donovan, Jones, Chopra, Connolly, Murphy, Stokes, Cole.