When Carrick replies to one query regarding players being sold, sometimes for a large profit, he describes it as “bittersweet ...

Saturday's loss at the City Ground was Brighton's heaviest in a league game since the opening day of the 1958-59 season ...

Régis Le Bris has strongly hinted that Sunderland will continue with Wilson Isidor up top for the foreseeable future as the Black Cats prepare for a crunch clash with Middlesbrough on Monday night.