Cats Doubts All Erased at Old Trafford ; Manchester United 2 Sunderland 2
The Journal › October 05, 2009
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THE script read like a re-run of Sunderland's familiar Old Trafford horror story. It has been 41 years since a red and white flag was planted at the selfproclaimed Theatre of Dreams and that barren run has seen a few evenings like this, where a doughty, spirited display is ultimately undermined by a cruel twist of fate, writes MARK DOUGLAS.
Ten months ago Sunderland's brave resistance was undone by another one of Manchester United's late specials - the sheer weight of pressure on that occasion leading with grim inevitability to an injury-time winner. That gnawing sense of hurt was back on Saturday evening.See the full content of this document
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Cats Doubts All Erased at Old Trafford ; Manchester United 2 Sunderland 2
But the rawness of emotion that surged though Wearside veins after Alan Wiley brought this pulsating game to a close shouldn't obscure the profound progress that the club have made since last season's Old Trafford appointment.
Unlike the tentative approaches employed by Roy Keane and Ricky Sbragia over the last couple of season, Steve Bruce backed the quality of his Sunderland side and that belief was richly rewar...See the full content of this document
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