Steve McClaren
Steve McClaren
Stephen "Steve" McClarenis an English professional football manager and former player who most recently was the head coach of Newcastle United. McClaren served as manager of England from August 2006 to November 2007. He was sacked when England failed to qualify for the 2008 European Championship...
wants
There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,
accepted football happy known mark move players shocked wants
I was very surprised, very shocked and very disappointed. Really, it was accepted reluctantly on our behalf. But as always, you only want players who are happy here, who want to play for your football club, and Mark has made it known he wants to move on, so we have reluctantly accepted that.
assess bad
It is concussion so we will have to assess it and see how bad it is.
doubt james rest season
James is a big doubt for the rest of the season and he's going to see a specialist.
games sure
We'll come through this spell. It's where you end up, not where you are after 18 games but we've got to make sure it doesn't become a really big issue.
beat ground hard
We didn't play very well -- I'd be the first to admit. But we were hard to beat and we ground out the result.
quite remember score
It's been a while, we don't quite remember how to celebrate. It was important to score first.
along dressing enjoy moments players room
I've just told the players in the dressing room to enjoy it because moments like this don't come along too often in your career.
football good needed signing taxation
That, for us, was as good as signing on the dotted line. There was a taxation issue, not a football issue, that needed sorting out.
change creativity fill ideal johnson provide
We have (Adam) Johnson who has potential, Manny (Pogatetz) who can fill in there and Franck can change over and provide some creativity going forward. It's not ideal but it's what we've got at the moment.
biggest game run season stepping victory
This was the biggest game of the season for us and it was the most important victory of our campaign. Hopefully, this is a stepping stone. I would like to think we can go on a run after this result.
club lifeblood lose people
You can't lose people like that, they are the lifeblood of the club and we're very pleased.
beating experience future moment players took
This is a big lesson, a big experience for them. This will make them better players in the future but at the moment it hurts. We took a beating today.
couple credit football great longer players politics rewarded spirit stuck time week
A week is a long time in politics and even longer in football at times. We have had an eventful couple of months. But credit the players for this win. Through all the criticism, all the performances and the results, we have always stuck together. There has always been a great spirit and it rewarded us today.