Kenwyne: We'll attack Newcastle
Sunderland striker Kenwyne Jones will attack his first Wear-Tyne derby tomorrow – and insists his side must approach every game in the same way.
The 23-year-old frontman has four goals to his name this season – scoring three of the side's last four – and would write himself into folklore if he claimed the decisive strike against the old enemy.
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Of the 16 men whose names appeared on the the Sunderland team sheet the last time the two sides met – a 4-1 win at the Stadium of Light for the Magpies on April 17, 2006 – only Danny Collins and Daryl Murphy, who started that day, and Grant Leadbitter, an unused substitute, remain on the books.
However, manager Roy Keane will have no need to stress the importance of the game as he looks for a first Barclays Premier League win in seven games.
Jones said: "A derby match is always fiery and intense. I guess it is more important for the fans that we beat Newcastle, and I know we are up for that.
"But every game for us this season is very, very, very important, so we will have to treat all of them like derbies."
Jones's excellent start in the big time has catapulted him into the limelight and made him a marked man already, although he is only too well aware how things can change in football.
He said: "I'm not bothered by it because at the end of the day, as fast as you get the attention is as fast as you can lose it.
"I am not really bothered by it."
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