More of this please!

We have knocked down another gremlin. For many reasons, mostly including them being a much better team, we had not until yesterday beaten Everton for about thirteen years. This is ridiculous, and that is how the team decided to treat the fact. We had enough about us,  in a way unimaginable a month ago, to deservedly beat a team that is one of the best in the league.

Maybe this is just the "new manager bounce " syndrome we see so often. Or it could be a result of  the Italian manager Paulo Di Canio's attention to detail and his incorporating the legendary thoroughness of Italian football, which of course he grew up with.

Maybe both, but it should be interesting to see what happens if he can keep this team up and have a full season in the premier league. It would be delicious to see him succeed, if only to challenge the orthodoxy that the only people fit for jobs such as the one that became vacant at Sunderland are the people who have had experience of doing them before. Pick one from the merry go round they always urge, you need experience.

Well maybe you do, and maybe you sometimes need something different. Different is what we now have got.

This will NOT be boring!

Paulo Di Canio celebrates Sunderland's goal yesterday.