On the plus side, players are no longer ordered only by squad number and the substitutes are listed.
Not for the first time this season, the value provided by squad depth in key positions was in evidence.
There were five goals in six games in the Copa del Rey, a competition whose early rounds are often populated by squad players.
Unhappy that the club's board bowed to a revolt by squad members following a defeat at West Bromwich Albion, Di Canio maintains he should have received greater backing from Ellis Short, Sunderland's owner, and Margaret Byrne, the chief executive.
The Desperados kept the arena awake with the song "Take Me Back to Tulsa" until a giant video screen lit up with a live shot of the Presidential motorcade — a trio of armored limousines, led by motorcycle cops and flanked by squad cars — pulling into the parking lot outside.
The Desperados kept the arena awake with the song "Take Me Back to Tulsa" until a giant video screen lit up with a live shot of the Presidential motorcade a trio of armored limousines, led by motorcycle cops and flanked by squad cars pulling into the parking lot outside.
