Sir Mikel OBE

Lamela should have been booked on that high challenge on Drogba.

KING DROGBA!

Zouma may be coming on for cahill

Sunderland score

Cahill struggling.

Holy shit they are attacking us...

That 37 year old grandpa has more goals than remy this season.

He's the best bench warming left back in Europe Squad dept.

It could be a good thing if Willian and Schurrle were oozing quality at the moment, but yeah it is sad at this point.

That means we won't score in the first half. Cant imagine Jose putting two up there if we have any lead whatsoever.

Costa

This is the strange one to me. He comes off the bench, scores a goal, and has not been seen since.

Good to see he has made the bench again. One step closer to the pitch.

Remy officially third choice.

Because the racist VISA culture of America means most people coming to the states have to be more educated than the average American, and even then these groups are allowed to create enclaves which African Americans have had destroyed through centuries of systemic oppression. Its easy to say such and such group is doing better when only the best of that group is allowed in. I have to tell Pakistanis in America this all the time when they are quick to criticize the ones in Europe.

It hurts, but they would be fools to let him go when they own him(de facto NYC). I wouldn't be shocked if they loaned him to themselves for one more season after this. He still has it in him to be a bench player at this level as he has shown.

Yep you could even see the look on his face when he smacked luis on the back coming off. Obviously Luis has a much shorter leash for him than Ivanovic.

Didn't the same happen with Luis before he was hooked during the Maribor match?

The big thing is if he starts midweek. He pretty much has to.

BassBuds FC should hang on to win this.

No.

Pellegrino would be a fool to let Lampard leave. You don't let someone who can give you goals from the bench go for nothing.

The most upsetting thing is I don't think Sunderland played out of their skin. They got bodies back for sure, but they didn't do anything too spectacular. Our players played really slow, and didn't even really force them to play good. If City roll them over it will be because they won't play as slow as we did against them.

6 points this early is next to nothing though. I expected more fight from Southampton though, especially when Mangala was sent off.

2 goals while down to 10 men. No way in hell would we play like that up a man and down to 10.