Please don't tell me January is to be as depressing as December. We're just 5 points clear of the bottom club in the league, we were knocked out of the Carling Cup at the first hurdle by the mighty Northampton Town and now we're out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle. All we have to look forward to is retaining our Premier League status. Save for a flukey Smolarek goal, this was cut and dried for Sunderland and, despite fielding a virtual full-strength team, we still gave in too easily. Could have been a good year too, seeing as though Liverpool play Everton and Man United play Spurs in the next round. Too depressed to add anything else - next 2 league fixtures are, as I've said on many occasions recently, Arsenal and Man United. What a treat...