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Might sound a small detail I know, but even in the warm up I felt everyone looked really focused last night. The 3 starting Centre-halves were high fiving each other and psyching one another up throughout the drills, an example of the togetherness within the squad I felt.
I find the High Performance podcasts on Youtube interesting listening. Gives you a better insight into the psychological aspects of how sportsmen go about their business.
They've also interviewed a few musicians here and there also. Here is a part of the Steven Gerrard one but there's lots on there.
Regardless of what Norwood could potentially offer the team, do we really want an unsettled player within the camp? If it causes any kind of disharmony, let him go I would say. A player could be the best in the world but if he doesn't want to be there, why keep him around?
I think its also the fact that despite people being against McCarthy towards the latter stages of his reign, we've probably finished level or above our expectations whereas fairly big names have tried to have success at Sunderland and it hasn't worked . If he can bring spark to Sunderland its going to do good things for his reputation.
I think the job he done with Wales somewhat glorified him as a manager. A big tournament is obviously going to get you more coverage and what not, I think its difficult to judge him at Sunderland though.
I think there is something about the club that is a bit rotten whether that's ownership, just a general sense of apathy, none of their past 5 or 6 appointments bar Allardyce seemed to have worked plus he didn't get a full season to really prepare.
I'm not saying he should be in the frame but Sunderland have been in disarray for a long time, not sure you can draw too much from it.