the liking for sunderland fans is set in stone with the old guard the non gloating city fans after going down at maine road, football fans never forget ????
but your right today charlton was the better team and sunderland was not playing just settling for what they had a lucky own goal to hang on to, and lack of fire power or idea to push on and put pressure on charlton was a gamble and a late goal was always on the cards, sunderland will be hurting like mad and should not be in this mess and maybe the clean out in the last summer was not enough and lee cattermole need to move on ?? sunderland based themselves are round him this season and everything had to come from him and that's a problem in the lower leagues, you can not build a team with one player its a hard season and playing 46 league games you have to be superman ???
looking back on man city in the play off final 20 years ago ?? and that season we really did get lucky on both sides, the season was hard going and we had to sign a couple of players on next to nothing and patch up a team to just get us to the play off final, and again lady luck played her part in that, you really do need luck when your down and out and sunderland got there luck a little bit to early and tried to defended it ?????
sunderland will be ok the fan base are always going to be there and it will come good next season