The teams have met on 156 previous occasions, with Sunderland gaining a massive 53 wins in that time compared to Newcastle’s paltry 53.

The record is 53-50-53? That is incredibly even.

“I take full responsibility for my red card”

It’s so obvious you don’t need to say it. Of course it’s your fault, who else’s fault would it be?

By and large performances have been ok, just some really poor individual errors against Wolves where we were pretty comfortable for the first half. Everton sticks out as a genuinely poor performance. It just looks like we’re lacking confidence. A win next week at home to Burnley and these stories go away. He’ll be fine in my opinion, it would be short sighted to get rid of him anyhow.