Steve Bruce calls for dauntless Sunderland hearts to quarrel dump Premier League

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Steve Bruce shrugged his shoulders and blew out his cheeks. It is right away fourteen games and 100 days given Sunderland last experienced feat in the Barclays Premier League and Bruces air of punch-drunk abdication was evident.

At the finish of a life-sapping part at the Stadium of Light, Bruces moribund group remained fourteenth in the table, 3 points transparent of the bottom three. They are the usually side in the multiplication not to have won a joining compare in 2010 and their annus horribilis is in risk of apropos an annus muchworseius.

Three uninterrupted home matches opposite Bolton Wanderers, Manchester City and Birmingham City suggest a possibility for respectability, but the regard on Wearside is that the clubs sameness and miss of certainty is entrenched. Im certain well be OK, Bruce said. Im the physical education instructor and the sire stops with me.

For Fulham, it brought a gratifying close to a gratifying month. I instruct Feb would last forever, pronounced Roy Hodgson, whose side has progressed to the last sixteen of the Europa League and the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. That point takes us to 38 with ten games to go, the physical education instructor said.

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The 18-pass move that resolved with Damien Duff sharpened far-reaching was the prominence of a utterly awful fixture. We resorted to lumping the round forward, but we have to be braver than that, Bruce said. He additionally talked again about the expectancy of North East crowds, but the usually expectancy is that if something can go wrong, it will. At present, it is.

Sunderland (4-4-2): C Gordon 6 A Hutton 6, M Turner 6, J Mensah 6 (sub; G McCartney, 84 min), A Ferdinand 5 F Campbell 4, L Cana 4, L Cattermole 4 (sub: B Zenden, 55 5), K Richardson 5 D Bent 7, K Jones 6 (Benjani Mwaruwari, 81). Substitutes not used: T Carson, P Bardsley, M Kilgallon, P Da Silva. Booked: Hutton, Richardson, Turner. Next: Bolton Wanderers (h).

Fulham (4-4-2): M Schwarzer 6 C Baird 6, A Hughes 7, B Hangeland 7, N Shorey 6 D Duff 5, D Etuhu 5, D Murphy 5 (sub: J Greening, 58 5), S Davies 6 Z Gera 6, R Zamora 6 (sub: D Elm, 84). Substitutes not used: P Zuberbühler, S Kelly, S Okaka, B H Riise, C Smalling. Booked: Baird, Greening, Zamora. Next: Manchester United (a).