One Week On… And I’m Still Buzzing!

I’m not really sure when the buzz will end, but I still haven’t gotten bored with watching all the content surrounding the game. The highlights, the goals, the fan footage, the crying mags… It’s all still absolutely brilliant. I suppose that’s a really good thing, given we’ve not got a lot else to talk about until we build up to the game with Spurs.

It’s always brilliant when you beat your nearest and dearest, but we never get this length of time to stew on it – usually, there’ll be another game to talk about within a few days, and our focus switches. But not this time – we can gloat, we can rub it in, and we can pore over every single ounce of video, audio, and mag tears for just that little while longer. I was thinking about this before, and I had a little chuckle to myself, but can you imagine losing that game, then having to wait three weeks to put it right, all the while the fans of your biggest rivals are rubbing it in at every opportunity?

I’d feel absolutely sick. In no way do I have ANY sympathy for Newcastle supporters here, because they certainly earned their medicine having told us that this game would be six easy points for the team from Tyneside, but they must be demented by it. I’m not sure I’d cope.

That length of time that both clubs have had to wait for the next game will be crucial, I imagine, to where our respective seasons go from here, and despite the fact we won’t play each other again between now and May (which, let’s be honest, is a crying shame as we could really do with the extra points) the fortunes of Sunderland and Newcastle are unavoidably linked. We’re both basically in the same position in the table, and both have ambitions to finish in the top eight. This, like the Brighton loss we suffered a few weeks ago, was a six-pointer and a game that neither team could really afford to lose, as it meant giving up ground to a side nearby in the table.