SAFC Highlights

Sunderland have been criticised by many in the media for sacking Tony Mowbray, but there are good reasons for it.

Birmingham visited the Stadium of Light with both teams in need of a win. Wayne Rooney was coming off the back of five games without one and Sunderland were looking to get their promotion hopes back on track with one.

With Sunderland desperate to get back to winning ways a fragile Norwich visited the Stadium of Light.

Sunderland visited the King Power Stadium under threat of recording three losses in a row.

It was a desperately disappointing return to action for Sunderland at Stoke, and a tactical mistake seemed most responsible for it.

A tight first half Sunderland looked to be edging, collapsed after a surprise sending off, so just what went wrong and how much was the Red card to blame?

A Watford side keen to show they were better than their League position showed were left humbled by a performance of quality from Sunderland. So how did Sunderland do it?

Sunderland arrived at Hillsborough determined to make amends for an unexpected loss to Cardiff City, so how did they do it?