POYET DESERVES A MEDAL, FOR SUNDERLAND TURNAROUND

He deserves his medal. What Gus Poyet, once a DAMN good Chelsea player, has done with Sunderland is quite incredible. TWO away wins against teams that should normally have them for breakfast without leftovers and some other good results has meant SOMEHOW, they have left a relegation zone that has been their loving, sweet home for about...a thousand years.

The very fact that Connor Wickham, one of his players won player-of-the-month shows the kind of changes Poyet has made. Reaching the Carling Cup Final was very good achievement, but it's how he has made his team dig deep and get those results that has been incredible.

I FULLY thought they were over and done with. I did not see any hope for a team that were down at the basement of the league table. But Poyet has done what is one of the hardest things to do in football, and that is change a bunch of losers into a group of winners. You can bring about all the tactics and strategies you like, but at the end of the day it really comes down to changing the mentality of the players. It's altering that psychology that is such a difficult task.

It would be A CRIME if Norwich somehow beat Sunderland to the punch and survive. If Norwich lose their next game, which at the rate they are going...they should, then Sunderland have performed the great escape and Poyet SHOULD have a golden statue made of him up on that Tyneside and the board must dig deep into their pockets to give him some funds to make Sunderland the mid-table team or more...that they ought to be.


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