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Craig Gordon

Cats goalkeeper warns against complacency

CRAIG Gordon has warned Sunderland can not take Saturday’s game against West Ham United for granted even if the Londoners, like Aston Villa, seem to be meandering towards the end of the season. Read

Michael Chopra

Chopra winner silences critics

MICHAEL Chopra proved his point to Roy Keane at the weekend, but the Gosforth-born striker was more interested in easing Sunderland’s relegation fears and silencing the detractors who question his £5m price tag. Read

Keane praises warriors in drop fight

ROY Keane hailed the warrior spirit of his players as Sunderland banished their away-day jinx in a crucial win at Villa Park. Read

Carlos Edwards

Edwards can help end goal drought

CARLOS Edwards has promised to help ease the pressure on Kenwyne Jones just as the third member of Sunderland’s Trinidad and Tobago trio, Dwight Yorke, has increased it. Read

If this is the end, it has to finish on a high – Yorke

For Dwight Yorke, today’s return to the Villa Park could mark the beginning of the end, but he believes this is just the start for Sunderland. Stuart Rayner reports Read

Keane sets the benchmark

IT might have moved them one step closer to the relegation zone, but Roy Keane wants last week’s 1-0 defeat to serve as the performance standard for the remainder of the season. Read

Edwards can help end goal drought

CARLOS Edwards has promised to help ease the pressure on Kenwyne Jones just as the third member of Sunderland’s Trinidad and Tobago trio, Dwight Yorke, has increased it. Read

Roy Keane

No one is safe from the axe, warns Cats boss Keane

ROY Keane is adamant he will always keep his players guessing – as he warned he will never allow anyone to feel safe and secure at Sunderland. Read

Phil’s second city turn-off

PHIL Bardsley has played down the significance of his return to Aston Villa this weekend after claiming he never felt entirely happy at the club. Read

Sunderland manager Roy Keane

Transfer-listed stars impress Keane with attitude

DESPITE having seven players on the transfer list, manager Roy Keane does not expect anyone to leave Sunderland before today’s Football League loan deadline. Read

Coaches can do the talking

ROY Keane does not believe in idle chit-chat with his players, but he is happy for them to natter to a sports psychologist if they feel it helps them. Read

Roy Keane

Roy loving the battle for places

ROY Keane tried to crank up the intensity of Sunderland’s training sessions by dropping some of his more high-profile players at the weekend, but one of the beneficiaries believes the sheer sight of so many senior players on the practice pitches has already done it for him. Read

Diego Forlan

Cats target fancies a return to England

DIEGO Forlan has dropped a massive hint to his former Manchester United team-mate Roy Keane by admitting he would love a return to the Premier League. Read

Roy Keane

Keane refutes bust-up rumours

ROY Keane has angrily rejected suggestions he left two of his most expensive signings out of the side to face Chelsea for ill-discipline, arguing he had simply taken advantage of a near full-strength squad. Read

Jones wins the plaudits from Chelsea

KENWYNE Jones has been described as the Premier League’s most potent threat by the man charged with combating him at the weekend. Read

Roy Keane

Keane so close to realising his vision

AFTER having their patience sorely tested for the last seven months, Roy Keane hopes Sunderland’s fans will finally get to see the team he envisaged last summer. Read

Bardsley wants repeat of Barnsley blues

WHEN Sunderland fans were looking at the new Premier League fixture list this summer, eagerly trying to work out where the points which would spare them a third consecutive relegation might come from, their eyes would have skipped quickly over March 15. Read

Roy’s sick of bad decisions

ROY Keane believes refereeing decisions have cost Sunderland six Premier League points this season and that their rough treatment from officialdom has even extended to the Black Cats’ youth team. Read

Carlos Edwards

Struggle to the top drives on Edwards

IT has taken Carlos Edwards more than a decade to get to the Premier League and he is determined to ensure an injury-ravaged season will not be his first and last in the top flight, writes LUKE EDWARDS. Read

Carlos Edwards

Edwards in bid for a cats return

CARLOS Edwards put himself in contention for a timely return to the Sunderland team to face Chelsea on Saturday with a 60-minute run-out for the reserves who beat Manchester United 1-0 last night. Read

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