From: Dave.Alderson@newcastle.ac.uk (D. Alderson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: SAFC
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:28:14 GMT
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Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU

Sunderland 3-3 Cambridge Utd.

A disappointing result for the Lads on Saturday. After leading Cambridge three
times, they finally had to settle for a draw.
Sunderland took the lead after 14 minutes when Brian Mooney fired in from the
edge of the box after O'Shea had headed out Gordon Armstrong's corner. It was
Mooney's first goal for the Lads since his transfer from Preston 2 years ago.
The lead was short lived however, when Clayton equalised for Cambridge two
minutes later. After piling on the pressure for the remainder of the first 
half, David Rush deservedly put the lads ahead seven minutes before half-time,
finishing a move he started by heading in after an accurate cross from that man
Mooney.
Sunderland started the second half as they had finished the first, on the 
attack, but couldn't find the killer goal. Then after 65 minutes, after the
defence had failed to clear a long throw, Cambridge again equalised with a 
goal from Claridge. Brian Atkinson was brought on  for Michael Gray after 71
minutes, and with almost his first touch of the ball put the Lads ahead again
with an excellent volley after a cross from, guess who, Mooney. This time the
lead lasted about eight minutes before Raynor somehow found a gap to lash in a 
shot into the top corner in the 84th minute. Cambridge had a couple of chances
to actually win the game after this, and might have done so but for a couple of
good saves from Tony Norman. All in all a good entertaining game, but the Lads
again threw away two points with some poor defending. On the plus side Brian
Mooney was tremendous, and is finally starting to show some form, after being
out with a broken ankle for a long time. Hope he can keep this up.
Cambridge manager Ian Atkins, who played for the Lads for three years and played
some seventy-odd games, was making his first appearance at Roker since being
sold by Len Ashurst. "It's a sentimental return coming back to Roker Park," 
he said, "I loved the club, loved the people and loved the area." After the 
game he tipped the Lads for promotion, NEXT year. "It won't be this year, but
next year. If the club sticks with Malcolm Crosby and Bobby Ferguson, I'm sure
they'll be pushing for promotion." He added, "We should have won it because we
had three good chances in the last five minutes, but that would have been an
injustice to Sunderland because they gave us a footballing lesson at times."
Sunderland boss Malcolm Crosby was unhappy about the defensive lapses which
let Cambridge back in the game, he said, "I'm annoyed because I felt we had 
done enough to win but we didn't clear their set plays well enough. A lot of 
our problems stemmed from ourselves. We have got to be more disciplined about
conceding free-kicks and corners. But we are playing well enough to improve 
our league position. We have got enough confidence to move up."

Line up: Norman, Kay, Gray (Atkinson 71), Ord, Butcher, Ball, Cunnington, 
Goodman, Mooney, Rush, Armstrong. sub. Davenport.
Atten. 16,778

Quotes from The Journal.


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