Sheaf Saint

But the rest of his game has been excellent.

Holy crap - that's the third time we've hit the woodwork so far!

Totally dominant performance so far, but we need to score one or two more in the 2nd half to make certain of the points. One thing I have learned from our games against them since we got back to the PL is that you should never underestimate Stoke's ability to bully their way back into a game and score scrappy goals.

YESSSS!!!!!! Cracking finish from Mane!

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Stoke are such an ugly team to watch.

Just looking at the Sky match report... http://www1.skysports.com/football/live/match/313464/ratings According to these ratings, Mannone only scored one rating lower than Forster at the other end. That's right - a keeper who conceded 8 goals, was directly responsible for one of them and really should have saved at least 3 others, gets only one rating lower than his opposite number who kept a clean sheet. How does that work then?

Mane

BBC has the possession at 50/50!!!!!!!

I almost feel sorry for the Blunderland players. They look like they just cannot wait for the final whistle to blow. I reckon there could be more goals yet to come. Edit: hahahaha! No sooner had I clicked post, Mane pops up with number 8!!!!

Does anybody have a half-decent stream for this? All the ones I have tried today are absolute pants.

**** you Gus Poyet!!!! Who the **** is laughing now, eh?

WTF!!!???!!!

Ooooh. So close to a hat-trick for Grazi!

Erm, there was a rather famous game against Man Utd in 1996.

We want 6!

Another comedy own goal from Sunderland. Maybe they felt sorry for us after our failure to beat them last season.

Well, that first half has exceeded any expectations I may have had about this game. Sunderland look OK going forward but some dreadful defending has handed the points to us on a plate. Best OG I have ever seen. That's going to get replayed forever on sports blooper programs. Possibly should have been a pen for them, but then we should have had one just before the OG as well, so they can't really complain. Although if the ref had given it he would also have had no choice but to send off Forster, who just made himself a big obstacle rather than making any deliberate attempt to foul the player. Difficult to give my full, objective analysis of the performance so far because my stream has been very suspect and I think I have probably spent more time watching the buffering icon than I have watching actual football.

Jesus - Long clotheslined by Lee Cattermole, and he has the cheek to complain about getting a yellow for it!!!

I lost my stream temporarily. How was Pelle's goal?

Replay shows it should have been a pen for the foul on Long, but the OG makes up for it I guess.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Brilliant curling finish from Vergini!

Dirty, cynical foul from Wickham deserved a yellow card for that.

No, it's not. Harry Redknapp won it for March 2005, and we then went on to get just one point from a possible fifteen in April, which cemented our relegation.

I'm still mighty confused how Rooney's FK went in. It had no height on it and had the wall actually bothered to jump they would easily have stopped it. Dunno what the keeper was doing either. A comedy goal from Estonia's POV.