Sunday, March 12, 2006
Kevin Ball's first game
Ball Deflated
A sorry second half saw Sunderland sadly sink to another home defeat as Paul Jewell's Wigan Athletic took the spoils at The Stadium of Light yesterday. The 1 - 0 defeat leaves the Lads firmly stuck to the bottom of the Premiership table with a paltry 10 points from 29 games, looking almost certain to beat there own record of 19 points for a Premiership season, the lowest ever recorded.
Kevin Ball, caretaker manager, tried to take some positives from the game, particularly our ability to create chances, however, other than a disallowed effort from Kevin Kyle, we failed to hit the back of the net. A costly defensive mistake but Nyron Nosworthy gifted Wigan the only goal of the game.
Afterwards Paul Jewell was generous enough to say that Wigan had lost to the better team, he was interviewed as over a thousand home supporters gathered in protest at The Murray Gates beside the main stadium entrance to vociferously call for the head of the chairman. The protest had been talked about and planned all week on fans' message boards as a way of showing our disgust at the failure to invest in the team to make a worthwhile effort at staying in the Premiership.
In an innovative move the club has introduced a free podcast service where we can download free mp3 files to load into a media player, mp3 player, or iPod, featuring interviews with the manager and players during the week leading up to the game.
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