On this day - 6 October

Division One White Hart Lane

Sunderland 0 (0)
Tottenham 3 (2) Mackay Clayton Greaves

Sunderland: Montgomery, Irwin, Ashurst, Parke, Harvey, McNab, Hellawell, Herd, Sharkey, Baxter, Gauden (sub not used: Campbell)

Attendance: 37,364

A Wednesday night in North London, and our miserable run in London, and at White Hart Lane in particular, continued.

Premier League Highbury

Sunderland 1 (0) Craddock 82
Arsenal 3 (2) Kanu 3 Kanu 9 Vieira 46

Sunderland: Sorenson (Myhre), Williams, Craddock, Babb, Kilbane, Bellion, McCann, Reyna, Thirlwell (Piper), Arca, Flo (Quinn) (subs not used: McCartney, Stewart)

Attendance: 37,902

League Position after match: 17th

Olde London traditions #17: concede an early goal at Highbury, then if possible a second one shortly afterwards.

Play reasonably well after that without ever looking like threatening, and end up with the usual: nowt.