ALS NEWS Possible Jermain Defoe chants? While you think of some, here’s today’s craic starting with Gus Poyet praising John O’Shea: “I would like him to have a rest and I was thinking about the Cup (as the time to do it). The problem was every time we were going to make a decision on something, someone else came out. But he’s intelligent and he’s fit. In the summer, I think he came back fitter than when I was here in the beginning. Him and (Emanuele) Giaccherini were scarily fit in pre-season. That’s good because it makes you extend your career. I understand why he played so many years at Man United now. I’ve got no doubt that if he was playing with better players than him, it would be very easy. If you put him in any team in the world and he was surrounded by better players, then he would be unbelievable. Now we’re asking him to do a lot. We’re asking him to be the leader, to mark, to play 90 minutes every game. He’s been consistent all the way through.” Jack Rodwell has been doing the school run with Santiago Vergini and admits it’s events like these that make his profession great: “It’s been great to come out to the school for something different. We’ve done a few bits of exercise with the kids and most of them are Sunderland fans. Sometimes you finish training and don’t feel in the mood, but then you come out to places like this and the looks on the kids’ faces is brilliant. We’re role models for them and it’s important to remember that.” Elsewhere, the Under 18’s beat Ipswich 3-1 in the FA Youth Cup and will play the scum at home in the next round, so get yourself along if you can. Talking about home FA Cup ties, with all the excitement around Defoe yesterday evening, you may have missed Fulham beating Wolves on pens so we’ll play them on Wearside in the fourth round. Again if you can afford it then try and make it. I’d love to see another cup run.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:47:18 +0000
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