KingTed

Why? The FA Cup offers our best and easiest route to European football. Anyway I was there 76 plus when we played in Europe in the 1980's..and winning the Cup was miles better

Of course people are upset. It was a great opportunity to win some silverware and MP made a huge mistake. He is still a potentially great manager but today proved he has a lot to learn. The 800+ at Sunderland today gave the team full support until the end and yes we did then "express our disappointment". Fans know when the team is not committed and it showed today. Win the next 3 games and all will be forgiven

Made it back. First thing to say is Sunderland have great fans. Chatting in the pub before hand they, like Poyet, had written the game off because "we are in one final and need to stay up. Saints have a great chance to win the FA Cup so you are going to play your best players". How wrong they were! As was said on 606 and by all the fans leaving the ground we did not play our best team and that was madness. Yes it was a good team but not our best. Once JayRod and MS came on Sunderland were in full retreat. Was it worth protecting these players...time will tell but I doubt it. Anyway no one orders an open top bus for a parade when you come 8th in the EPL.