What Tony Mowbray said about Queen Elizabeth, Sunderland’s fixture postponement plus Reading and Watford

Striker Ross Stewart has been ruled out for at least six weeks with a thigh injury, while defender Dennis Cirkin is also expected to miss the fixture at the Madejski Stadium.

The setbacks mean Mowbray will have to alter his side following last week’s 1-0 defeat at Middlesbrough, before the weekend’s home match against Millwall was postponed.

Sunderland are then set to face Watford at Vicarage Road three days after the game at Reading.

Here’s what was said at the Academy of Light as Mowbray spoke to the media: