It is possible to describe the past 96 hours as days original and remakes, given the number of films which have enabled me to forget the constant blowing of nose and coughing although I have managed to sleep, albeit at an assortment of times.
I went out early on Tuesday morning January 4th to the return of biting coldness for a brief shopping expedition to the nearest supermarket and to use up the £5 voucher bonus from the Christmas New Year give away and a £5 voucher from the petrol station. It main purpose was to restock on toilet rolls and toothpaste. There was an excellent offer of tins of grapefruit in juice at 29p and the tubs of prepared rice for 74p instead of £1 or more. I purchased some salad and grapes. Special offer diet coke and an extra or two, a tin of anchovies and two half price individual Christmas puddings. Apart from milk I am well stocked for two weeks if necessary. I plan to use up the freezer and fridge contents for defrost and clean if the snow keeps away.
On returning home the Green wagon was in the lane so I had to park and wait. I only need to clear my blue (green) wheelie bin every four weeks but neighbours bins were bulging with celebration cans and bottles as well as Christmas cardboard. The ordinary waste wagon had also cleared the bins leading mine in front of the garage door so I had to get out in the cold to move before being able to park. I remember back to the days of the round metal waste bins in which it was possible to burn waste as well as putting in the embers from the coal fires. Its seems a lifetime ago and it was, although the memories are vivid.
One of the films was the 1953 Titanic, made in black and white it created a great sense of horror than the more recent popular award winning version, despite its preoccupation with the trivial life of one family, the Sturges with Barbara Stanwick playing wife Julie who has decided to rebel against her purposeless life, following her husband around Europe to the social events of the seasons while he plots a good marriage for his adoring 17 year old daughter and worshipping son. She has sneaked off while he is occupied elsewhere using the excuse of the Titanic maiden voyage to take the children home and then keep them there hoping to change them into more likeable and socially aware young people.
The husband, played by Clifton Webb, finds out but arrives at the Cherbourg stage to find there are no tickets left. This is dishonest film trick as the vessel sailed half full of wine growers travelling third class fortunately, otherwise the number of deaths would have been significantly greater. He persuades a Spanish family of wine growers travelling third class to give up the male parent’s ticket after offering to add the purchase of 100 aces for their trouble. As if the family on their way to California would have agreed to separated and in this way, but this aspect is essential for the particular ending.
Their ten year old son is delighted to see his father and immediately plans how they will spend part of the day together entering the Shuffleboard competition, when there was no such game on the ship. Similarly Clifton is away luggage finds himself sporting day wear and an evening suit from the Ship’s Tailor and shop, another feature not on the Titanic.
The 17 year old Annette is appalled to learn she has missed the opportunity to attend a major social event at which Clifton has planned to arrange her marriage to one of Europe’s wealthiest families. She rejects the attention from a talented, and attractive young man, part of the USA Tennis team on their way home, and played by a very young Robert Wagner. He is encouraged by the mother and after a dance the two fall in love just as the iceberg opens the ship below the waterline rather like a tin opener on the former of corned beef tins. The relationship between husband and wife reaches its climax fighting over the future of the two children when mother recognising she is rejected by her daughter in favour of her father, ensures she will keep the boy by revealing he is the child of a brief encounter one summer. However Clifton reacts by saying he wants to have nothing more to do with her or the boy and spends the time playing bridge with an assortment of other First class socialites including a character based on Molly Brown played by Thelma Ritter.
The ending has its sentimental aspects similar to the more recent version, as first the daughter realises she has behaved badly towards her mother and that she has fallen for Wagner and then the reality that he and her father are unlikely to survive when having to remain on the ship because their are insufficient lifeboats. After saying goodbye and not expecting to see him again, Wagner heroically climbs down the winding gear of another boat which has become entangled and falls hitting his head into the water by the sudden release of the boat into the water. He is picked up and unbeknown to his new love, will be rescued along with her.
The discovery about his son results in Webb taking an interest in the Spanish family and getting the mother to sign what appears to be a Will or deed of settlement of some kind prepared which she is asked to hold for him. He therefore makes sure she gets onto a lifeboat and witnessing this act although unaware of its significance and they way he had ensured that she and their children are safe knowing he is likely to perish, makes Barbara see her husband in a new light and they are reconciled at the moment of permanent separation. Then out of sight of mother and sister, the boy gives up his seat in the boat to an old women to go in search of his father. Father is horrified on seeing the boy and finding that there are no lifeboats left tells the boy how much he is proud of his son and they die together. Apart from the Molly Brown character who we see surviving in another boat the only other story of merit is that of a priest, unfrocked because of his alcoholism is finding it difficult facing the family who gave up much to enable him to achieve his calling. He(Richard Baseheart) dies going to spiritual aid of trapped men below decks. “For God’s sake don’t go in there” says a crew member. to which he replies For God’s sake I am going in there.
There is a host of historical inaccuracies in the film with some already mentioned. The boilers explode in the film when in reality they did not and the interior of the ship was very different. The wealthy travellers of the Captain’s table, first class would have had staff with them and occupied substantial suites whereas the Sturgis family occupy two fairly basic cabins and there are no staff other than Ships crew. Wikipedia has an extensive list of other errors, although in the opening credits there is reference to the authentic city of the basic facts of what happened. Yet having said all this why do I still feel that the film showed the horror more effectively than the recent version. There are two reason, both subjective. The first is a film in black and white struck me as communicating the cold more effectively. The second is seeing the film at an ice cold time of the year. I was struck by the awareness of the death of so many men, the small number of women and the one child, a girl of a family who went in search of their baby son who had already been taken onto a lifeboat by its nurse, the horror of their actual death by drowning suffocation and what would have been the impact of the immediate surviving and other family members.
My topsy turvey body clock is taking days to settle down. Last nigght, Wednesday I went to bed and sleep early evening for two and half hours but could only stay up for the first hour of the cricket then going to bed and sleeping for a couple more hours at that. I came down and caught up with the live cricket before realising I was drifting off and generally in an uncomfortable state so I returned to bed with the radio and spent the rest of night from around 3am until 7.30am continued to drift in and out of sleep catching odd moment in the live radio commentary. However it is 4 30 pm today and so far the head remains clear although enthusiasm for work has been limited. I have ventured out to pay in two small cheques at the bank and for some colour cartridge ink as well as post an important letter. It is bitter cold again and starting to sleet but his did not continue.
I did see The Wild Bunch again over the holiday, a Sam Peckinpath film which stands out among the top Western genre and which features William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien and Warren Oats among others. The film remains controversial for the amount of bloody killing and portrayal of men willing to do anything to survive.
The bloodshed and action continues from start to finish with brief interludes. A small gang led by William Holden, former military men, have become outlaws and raid a railroad office because there is said to be silver there. In fact it is steel washers. They are ambushed by Robert Ryan, released from prison, to track down his former associates and together with others deputised by the railroad company there is a shoot out where several men are killed as well as townsfolk bystanders.
Holden takes his remaining men across the border into Mexico and to the town of one his group, a Mexican. The town is the HQ for an army general who is the kind of bandit warlord known to control much of Afghanistan. Holden does a deal with the general to steal USA weapons across the border known to be travelling by train. This mission is also bloody but successful. They continue to be pursued by Robert Ryan and his posse.
The mission would have ended successfully if the Mexican member had not found that his former girlfriend was not one of the General’s women. It is quickly evident that the local women are willing to offer sex for money and the men enjoy sexual adventures before embarking on each gun fight.
The Mexican tackles the girl and the General about their relationship and this is laughed off. However not long after the Mexican is taken prisoner and tortured near to death while Holden and the other gang members first decide there is nothing they can do except take the money and run. However they relent and ask for the release of their colleague. This is agreed but with his throat cut. This results in the bloodiest of battles in which dozen of not hundreds die. Only Holden survives the carnage.
The reason why the Mexican is taken prisoner is that he had had used a small part of the weapons’ cache to arm his townsfolk who are tired of being at the mercy of the General. The local revolutionaries kill the surviving members of Ryan’s posse who are returning without him, but with the bodies of all the other gang members to claim the reward. So just about everyone dies including many villagers, including the women, the General’s men, the posse and the gang. The film ends with Ryan and Holden riding off together.
There are no good men or women in this film, something which offended at the time of its release and still does certain sections of society on both dies of the North Atlantic. Even when one of their number of captured and tortured they are willing to turn away because of the odds. The irony is that it is only after they have been paid for stealing and turning over the weapons do they have a crisis of conscience about leaving their Mexican member behind. Life is cheap including their own and there is no sense of guilt or need to atone for all the slaughtering. That the two leaders survive also offended many. This contrasts with the other William Holden film experienced again, The Bridges of Toko Ri.
In contrast to the Wild Bunch, the point of this film is summoned up by the captain of a Carrier when he observes where do we find such men in awe of their heroism and technical abilities.
This 1954 film follows the James Michener story which in turns has a basis of fact in terms of missions from the Carriers the Essex and the Valley Forge upon which Michener was a war Korean Correspondent and from where aircraft undertook key missions to destroy the closely guarded bridges over the gorge at Toko Ri and also covers rescue mission by helicopter for downed pilots in the sea and on the mainland.
William Holden plays one of the Bomber pilots who is angry at being called up after serving in World War II, returning home , setting up a successful legal business. Marrying a beautiful wife (Grace Kelly) with two adorable children. The wife is daughter of a senator and managers to get permission to visit her husband in Japan where the vessel go for shore leave, However on the first night of their reunion Holden is called away to help the pilot of the ship’s rescue helicopter who became fighting drunk and destructive after finding that his Japanese girl friend had fallen for an Essex man. And finds himself unsurprisingly in the naval jail.
He has become a great friend of all the airman because of his own bravery and that of the winchman and who recently rescued Holden who had to ditch in the sea between Korea and the ship. The ship’s captain takes special interest because Holden is of a similar age and married status as his son who was killed in action. He meets with William and his wife in Japan and continues with a meal with the family while William is away rescuing Rooney. Kelly is unable to face the reality of the situation of her husband and the Captain fears for her mental health in the future as the next mission William will face is the Bridges. His daughter in law reacted in the arms of anyone and everyone and alcohol, and his wife who had to bear the loss of their two sons retreated into mental illness. Before setting of Grace forces herself and William to tell of his next assignment and risks.
There is a further confrontation between Rooney and the man from the Essex who sees saying goodbye to his former girl friend as Holden says goodbye to Grace as both ships head out to sea for the Toko Ri mission. The captain arranged for Rooney and his winch man to be transferred to South Korean mainland to undertakes rescue missions for pilots who have to ditch planes while overland. A feature of Rooney is the wearing of blue tall hat and scarf which enables pilots to rescue the successful rescue pilot is on his way to them.
William is asked to undertake a photo recognisance mission which brings home the risk as he escort the photo taking plane through the run over the gorge and four road and rail bridges with anti aircraft fire come from sides at regular intervals. He begins to panic at thought of not returning especially having had time with his wife and children. His plane is damaged and he loses fuel, not from the eventually successful double run over the bridges but from the second assignment of adjacent fuel and weapons dumps. He nearly makes it to the sea but is forces to crash land in enemy held territory but managed to get into a narrow drainage channel close to the aircraft. Fighter planes from the carriers keep the enemy away until Rooney arrives, but the helicopter is also hit and force to land. Rooney makes it into the channel to join Holden but the winchman is killed. The Planes can only stay for a while before their fuel runs out and they have to leave the two who put up a fight until they are killed by the superior forces against them. There was a similar incident while Michener was on one of the ships as war correspondent and he believed the downed pilots had been killed. In fact they survived, were captured and subsequently repatriated. The success of the film is the death of three men we come to care about and the knowledge of a woman and their children left to mourn, sugared in this instance by a romantic time together immediately beforehand,
After losing over Christmas and beginning to head towards the regulation zone Newcastle has had two great wins, the latest another 5.0 home win in the absence of injured Carroll, The star performance was jointly held by new recruit Leon best who has languished in the lower league for over five years. He scored the traditional hat trick of three goals on his first team debut. The other star was captain former bad boy Joey Barton whose repeated bad behaviour off and on the pitched led many, including myself to believe his career should have been ended. He ha sis now replaying those who kept faith with him. As with Sunderland there are many individuals who have impressed this season and begin to show what can be done if they work together as a team.
Sunderland who one place below a European spot next season had another impressive away win at Aston Villa with both sides reduced two ten men because of red card offences. With other top teams failing notably Chelsea and Liverpool Sunderland now have a good chance of making Europe if they can maintain their recent overall good form. Newcastle will also not have to face relegation. The test for both teams is next Sunday at noon when they meet at Stadium of Light with Sunderland still wounded from their 5.0 collapse. A score draw 2.2. 3.3 would be a fair result in present circumstances.
I went out early on Tuesday morning January 4th to the return of biting coldness for a brief shopping expedition to the nearest supermarket and to use up the £5 voucher bonus from the Christmas New Year give away and a £5 voucher from the petrol station. It main purpose was to restock on toilet rolls and toothpaste. There was an excellent offer of tins of grapefruit in juice at 29p and the tubs of prepared rice for 74p instead of £1 or more. I purchased some salad and grapes. Special offer diet coke and an extra or two, a tin of anchovies and two half price individual Christmas puddings. Apart from milk I am well stocked for two weeks if necessary. I plan to use up the freezer and fridge contents for defrost and clean if the snow keeps away.
On returning home the Green wagon was in the lane so I had to park and wait. I only need to clear my blue (green) wheelie bin every four weeks but neighbours bins were bulging with celebration cans and bottles as well as Christmas cardboard. The ordinary waste wagon had also cleared the bins leading mine in front of the garage door so I had to get out in the cold to move before being able to park. I remember back to the days of the round metal waste bins in which it was possible to burn waste as well as putting in the embers from the coal fires. Its seems a lifetime ago and it was, although the memories are vivid.
One of the films was the 1953 Titanic, made in black and white it created a great sense of horror than the more recent popular award winning version, despite its preoccupation with the trivial life of one family, the Sturges with Barbara Stanwick playing wife Julie who has decided to rebel against her purposeless life, following her husband around Europe to the social events of the seasons while he plots a good marriage for his adoring 17 year old daughter and worshipping son. She has sneaked off while he is occupied elsewhere using the excuse of the Titanic maiden voyage to take the children home and then keep them there hoping to change them into more likeable and socially aware young people.
The husband, played by Clifton Webb, finds out but arrives at the Cherbourg stage to find there are no tickets left. This is dishonest film trick as the vessel sailed half full of wine growers travelling third class fortunately, otherwise the number of deaths would have been significantly greater. He persuades a Spanish family of wine growers travelling third class to give up the male parent’s ticket after offering to add the purchase of 100 aces for their trouble. As if the family on their way to California would have agreed to separated and in this way, but this aspect is essential for the particular ending.
Their ten year old son is delighted to see his father and immediately plans how they will spend part of the day together entering the Shuffleboard competition, when there was no such game on the ship. Similarly Clifton is away luggage finds himself sporting day wear and an evening suit from the Ship’s Tailor and shop, another feature not on the Titanic.
The 17 year old Annette is appalled to learn she has missed the opportunity to attend a major social event at which Clifton has planned to arrange her marriage to one of Europe’s wealthiest families. She rejects the attention from a talented, and attractive young man, part of the USA Tennis team on their way home, and played by a very young Robert Wagner. He is encouraged by the mother and after a dance the two fall in love just as the iceberg opens the ship below the waterline rather like a tin opener on the former of corned beef tins. The relationship between husband and wife reaches its climax fighting over the future of the two children when mother recognising she is rejected by her daughter in favour of her father, ensures she will keep the boy by revealing he is the child of a brief encounter one summer. However Clifton reacts by saying he wants to have nothing more to do with her or the boy and spends the time playing bridge with an assortment of other First class socialites including a character based on Molly Brown played by Thelma Ritter.
The ending has its sentimental aspects similar to the more recent version, as first the daughter realises she has behaved badly towards her mother and that she has fallen for Wagner and then the reality that he and her father are unlikely to survive when having to remain on the ship because their are insufficient lifeboats. After saying goodbye and not expecting to see him again, Wagner heroically climbs down the winding gear of another boat which has become entangled and falls hitting his head into the water by the sudden release of the boat into the water. He is picked up and unbeknown to his new love, will be rescued along with her.
The discovery about his son results in Webb taking an interest in the Spanish family and getting the mother to sign what appears to be a Will or deed of settlement of some kind prepared which she is asked to hold for him. He therefore makes sure she gets onto a lifeboat and witnessing this act although unaware of its significance and they way he had ensured that she and their children are safe knowing he is likely to perish, makes Barbara see her husband in a new light and they are reconciled at the moment of permanent separation. Then out of sight of mother and sister, the boy gives up his seat in the boat to an old women to go in search of his father. Father is horrified on seeing the boy and finding that there are no lifeboats left tells the boy how much he is proud of his son and they die together. Apart from the Molly Brown character who we see surviving in another boat the only other story of merit is that of a priest, unfrocked because of his alcoholism is finding it difficult facing the family who gave up much to enable him to achieve his calling. He(Richard Baseheart) dies going to spiritual aid of trapped men below decks. “For God’s sake don’t go in there” says a crew member. to which he replies For God’s sake I am going in there.
There is a host of historical inaccuracies in the film with some already mentioned. The boilers explode in the film when in reality they did not and the interior of the ship was very different. The wealthy travellers of the Captain’s table, first class would have had staff with them and occupied substantial suites whereas the Sturgis family occupy two fairly basic cabins and there are no staff other than Ships crew. Wikipedia has an extensive list of other errors, although in the opening credits there is reference to the authentic city of the basic facts of what happened. Yet having said all this why do I still feel that the film showed the horror more effectively than the recent version. There are two reason, both subjective. The first is a film in black and white struck me as communicating the cold more effectively. The second is seeing the film at an ice cold time of the year. I was struck by the awareness of the death of so many men, the small number of women and the one child, a girl of a family who went in search of their baby son who had already been taken onto a lifeboat by its nurse, the horror of their actual death by drowning suffocation and what would have been the impact of the immediate surviving and other family members.
My topsy turvey body clock is taking days to settle down. Last nigght, Wednesday I went to bed and sleep early evening for two and half hours but could only stay up for the first hour of the cricket then going to bed and sleeping for a couple more hours at that. I came down and caught up with the live cricket before realising I was drifting off and generally in an uncomfortable state so I returned to bed with the radio and spent the rest of night from around 3am until 7.30am continued to drift in and out of sleep catching odd moment in the live radio commentary. However it is 4 30 pm today and so far the head remains clear although enthusiasm for work has been limited. I have ventured out to pay in two small cheques at the bank and for some colour cartridge ink as well as post an important letter. It is bitter cold again and starting to sleet but his did not continue.
I did see The Wild Bunch again over the holiday, a Sam Peckinpath film which stands out among the top Western genre and which features William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien and Warren Oats among others. The film remains controversial for the amount of bloody killing and portrayal of men willing to do anything to survive.
The bloodshed and action continues from start to finish with brief interludes. A small gang led by William Holden, former military men, have become outlaws and raid a railroad office because there is said to be silver there. In fact it is steel washers. They are ambushed by Robert Ryan, released from prison, to track down his former associates and together with others deputised by the railroad company there is a shoot out where several men are killed as well as townsfolk bystanders.
Holden takes his remaining men across the border into Mexico and to the town of one his group, a Mexican. The town is the HQ for an army general who is the kind of bandit warlord known to control much of Afghanistan. Holden does a deal with the general to steal USA weapons across the border known to be travelling by train. This mission is also bloody but successful. They continue to be pursued by Robert Ryan and his posse.
The mission would have ended successfully if the Mexican member had not found that his former girlfriend was not one of the General’s women. It is quickly evident that the local women are willing to offer sex for money and the men enjoy sexual adventures before embarking on each gun fight.
The Mexican tackles the girl and the General about their relationship and this is laughed off. However not long after the Mexican is taken prisoner and tortured near to death while Holden and the other gang members first decide there is nothing they can do except take the money and run. However they relent and ask for the release of their colleague. This is agreed but with his throat cut. This results in the bloodiest of battles in which dozen of not hundreds die. Only Holden survives the carnage.
The reason why the Mexican is taken prisoner is that he had had used a small part of the weapons’ cache to arm his townsfolk who are tired of being at the mercy of the General. The local revolutionaries kill the surviving members of Ryan’s posse who are returning without him, but with the bodies of all the other gang members to claim the reward. So just about everyone dies including many villagers, including the women, the General’s men, the posse and the gang. The film ends with Ryan and Holden riding off together.
There are no good men or women in this film, something which offended at the time of its release and still does certain sections of society on both dies of the North Atlantic. Even when one of their number of captured and tortured they are willing to turn away because of the odds. The irony is that it is only after they have been paid for stealing and turning over the weapons do they have a crisis of conscience about leaving their Mexican member behind. Life is cheap including their own and there is no sense of guilt or need to atone for all the slaughtering. That the two leaders survive also offended many. This contrasts with the other William Holden film experienced again, The Bridges of Toko Ri.
In contrast to the Wild Bunch, the point of this film is summoned up by the captain of a Carrier when he observes where do we find such men in awe of their heroism and technical abilities.
This 1954 film follows the James Michener story which in turns has a basis of fact in terms of missions from the Carriers the Essex and the Valley Forge upon which Michener was a war Korean Correspondent and from where aircraft undertook key missions to destroy the closely guarded bridges over the gorge at Toko Ri and also covers rescue mission by helicopter for downed pilots in the sea and on the mainland.
William Holden plays one of the Bomber pilots who is angry at being called up after serving in World War II, returning home , setting up a successful legal business. Marrying a beautiful wife (Grace Kelly) with two adorable children. The wife is daughter of a senator and managers to get permission to visit her husband in Japan where the vessel go for shore leave, However on the first night of their reunion Holden is called away to help the pilot of the ship’s rescue helicopter who became fighting drunk and destructive after finding that his Japanese girl friend had fallen for an Essex man. And finds himself unsurprisingly in the naval jail.
He has become a great friend of all the airman because of his own bravery and that of the winchman and who recently rescued Holden who had to ditch in the sea between Korea and the ship. The ship’s captain takes special interest because Holden is of a similar age and married status as his son who was killed in action. He meets with William and his wife in Japan and continues with a meal with the family while William is away rescuing Rooney. Kelly is unable to face the reality of the situation of her husband and the Captain fears for her mental health in the future as the next mission William will face is the Bridges. His daughter in law reacted in the arms of anyone and everyone and alcohol, and his wife who had to bear the loss of their two sons retreated into mental illness. Before setting of Grace forces herself and William to tell of his next assignment and risks.
There is a further confrontation between Rooney and the man from the Essex who sees saying goodbye to his former girl friend as Holden says goodbye to Grace as both ships head out to sea for the Toko Ri mission. The captain arranged for Rooney and his winch man to be transferred to South Korean mainland to undertakes rescue missions for pilots who have to ditch planes while overland. A feature of Rooney is the wearing of blue tall hat and scarf which enables pilots to rescue the successful rescue pilot is on his way to them.
William is asked to undertake a photo recognisance mission which brings home the risk as he escort the photo taking plane through the run over the gorge and four road and rail bridges with anti aircraft fire come from sides at regular intervals. He begins to panic at thought of not returning especially having had time with his wife and children. His plane is damaged and he loses fuel, not from the eventually successful double run over the bridges but from the second assignment of adjacent fuel and weapons dumps. He nearly makes it to the sea but is forces to crash land in enemy held territory but managed to get into a narrow drainage channel close to the aircraft. Fighter planes from the carriers keep the enemy away until Rooney arrives, but the helicopter is also hit and force to land. Rooney makes it into the channel to join Holden but the winchman is killed. The Planes can only stay for a while before their fuel runs out and they have to leave the two who put up a fight until they are killed by the superior forces against them. There was a similar incident while Michener was on one of the ships as war correspondent and he believed the downed pilots had been killed. In fact they survived, were captured and subsequently repatriated. The success of the film is the death of three men we come to care about and the knowledge of a woman and their children left to mourn, sugared in this instance by a romantic time together immediately beforehand,
After losing over Christmas and beginning to head towards the regulation zone Newcastle has had two great wins, the latest another 5.0 home win in the absence of injured Carroll, The star performance was jointly held by new recruit Leon best who has languished in the lower league for over five years. He scored the traditional hat trick of three goals on his first team debut. The other star was captain former bad boy Joey Barton whose repeated bad behaviour off and on the pitched led many, including myself to believe his career should have been ended. He ha sis now replaying those who kept faith with him. As with Sunderland there are many individuals who have impressed this season and begin to show what can be done if they work together as a team.
Sunderland who one place below a European spot next season had another impressive away win at Aston Villa with both sides reduced two ten men because of red card offences. With other top teams failing notably Chelsea and Liverpool Sunderland now have a good chance of making Europe if they can maintain their recent overall good form. Newcastle will also not have to face relegation. The test for both teams is next Sunday at noon when they meet at Stadium of Light with Sunderland still wounded from their 5.0 collapse. A score draw 2.2. 3.3 would be a fair result in present circumstances.
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