Portsmouth
All Portsmouth wants for X-mas is a briefcase full of money and no questions asked. It is just like all the Coen brothers movies (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, the Big Lebowski) where a person desperate for money discovers a bag full of stacked one hundred dollar bills in a place nobody would expect. Portsmouth would salivate at this opportunity being that they can’t deliver paychecks on time to their roster and staff.
My only advice to the last place squad is that if you do discover a briefcase full of stacked bills do not watch a Coen brothers movie while you wait it out. Usually the guy that discovers the money doesn’t live to tell about it. So on second thought maybe Portsmouth should just ask for some neck ties and a coffee mug instead?
But the debt ridden team will likely be going through some roadside shrubbery come this January.
Sunderland
All Sunderland wants for X-mas is a possible starting keeper. Regular starter Craig Gordon broke his arm in a full speed collision with Jermaine Defoe and the valuable keeper will be out for as long as February with that injury. Marton Fulup has done pretty well as a fill-in (3-3 with 2 clean sheets), but if Sunderland wants to remain on the top half then they will need somebody to step in help out between the posts.
As for their extremely wishful X-mas gift….
Sunderland would like to do away with all road games. The squad is a pathetic 1-1-6 on the road this year, so if they could just stay in the Stadium of Light for the remainder of the year that would be great.
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