When The Sun newspaper managed to leak, player-for-player, the exact Sunderland line-up for their midweek game against Liverpool well before kick-off, Black Cats manager Gus Poyet suspected that the tabloid may have used nefarious means to get hold of their information and duly banned them from attending his news conferences for the rest of the season.

Irked at Sunderland's shut-out, The Sun retaliated by deciding to drop the word "Sun" from the club's name, merely referring to them as "Derland" until such time as the ban is lifted