Ratings and Reactions: Sunderland - Villa

[Jareth]

Thank goodness the second half was so calm. Am I dreaming? Is this real? This is fantasy football. F*CKIN GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PieFacE]

Everyone gets a 10 today. Fantastic team performance. The intensity we showed in the first half was breathtaking. Sunderland were chasing shadows. 

 

I'm so **** happy right now. This feeling is so rare. I bet Chelsea fans didn't feel this good when they won the Carling Cup.

 

Sherwood has done a remarkable job so far. Keep it up  

[villatillidie1980]

Suuuper super Tim, suuuper super Tim, suuuper super Tim, super Timmy Sherwood!!

[The_Rev]

Difficult game to read too much into, Sunderland capitulated after the opening goal.  It's fantastic to see us go for the throat again, we've dropped too many points to teams who were there for the taking in recent years so punishing one of them is more than welcome. 

 

I'm not sure what to make of the Carles Gil situation though.  Could it really be that Sherwood doesn't rate him? 

[ThunderPower_14]

I'm not even over the moon happy, i'm just stunned. It's absolutely surreal to watch us absolutely flog a team in a big game on their pitch.

 

What was Lambert doing with this team?

[packoman]

Sunderland actually started the game pretty good, and looked more likely to score. Then we just killed them.

[supernova26]

Who's the italian look bloke on our touchline with the glasses? 

[Jareth]

3 points off swansea now is... expected.

[packoman]

Who's the italian look bloke on our touchline with the glasses? 

Think that's the goalkeeping coach, cant think of his name though.

 

Edit: Tony Parks

Edited March 14, 2015 by packoman

[Paddywhack]

I've just eaten a slice of corned beef to celebrate.

[Brumerican]

[Avfc96]

Who's the italian look bloke on our touchline with the glasses? 

Tony Parks?? He's the new goalkeeping coach.

[Jareth]

I feel sorry for sunderland, booed off, booed back on. There was something familiar about all the pre match press and player quotes, it was us, when we were sleepwalking into relegation - this is their wake up, Poyet has to leave, good luck to them but I hope they finish below us.

[NurembergVillan]

Who's the italian look bloke on our touchline with the glasses? 

 

Tony Parkes.

[supernova26]

 

Who's the italian look bloke on our touchline with the glasses? 

Think that's the goalkeeping coach, cant think of his name though.

 

Edit: Tony Parks

 

 

Seems to be doing more than giving goalkeeping tips to me. I like him.

[walesavfc]

they call us fickle,   40k watched first half, second half 20k at least they didnt miss any goals though

 

 

had to laught at this tweet

 

talkSPORTDrive ‏@talkSPORTDrive 49m49 minutes ago
A Sunderland fan just told our man Graham Courtney at h-t: "I'm staying til the final whistle so I miss the traffic."
 

[Mantis]

Amazing how before today we hadn't even won a league game by 2 goals let alone 4!

[Ikantcpell]

We have some brilliant players if they want to play football, so glad lamert is out and Super Tim is in, UTV!

[Razor]

Fantastic attacking performance in the first half and an excellent controlled possession game in the second in cruise control. Bacuna man of the match for his asssists but it was hard to choose him over The Zog. Only negative is yet again Gil doesn't get a look in which is concerning. One of our best performances for years and i think we can be excited about the future under Tiger Tim.

[OutByEaster?]

I feel a little bit sorry for Sunderland (now that we've beaten them 4-0, not before obviously) it's a proper football club and I've always found them a decent bunch. It'd be a shame for them to go down and I hope they're able to turn it around.

 

We looked really good in that first half, the urgency to win the ball and get it forward and then the movement and intensity when we did - we'll trouble teams if we play like that, even good ones. I feel a lot safer tonight - excellent performance.