ON the eve of the first game in a double header that makes this week the most “exciting” of Regis Le Bris’ footballing life, Sunderland’s head coach warned of the dangers of focusing too much on the opposition.

To do that, he said, would risk “scaring” his players.

No chance. This brilliant group of Sunderland players don’t do fear. If they did, they wouldn’t have won at Chelsea and they wouldn’t have gone toe-to-toe with Arsenal.

That’s why it came as no surprise when Chemsdine Talbi put them ahead at the midway stage of the second half at Anfield on Wednesday night.

And it says everything about Sunderland that it was a surprise they didn’t see the game out and pick up all three points against Liverpool.

That looked the likely scenario after Talbi’s opener, for the Black Cats had b

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