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Sunderland youngster wins award for FA Cup heroics

Anthony Patterson's fine performance in the FA Cup against Fulham has not gone unnoticed.

Michael Graham

Sunderland youngster wins award for FA Cup heroics
Sunderland youngster wins award for FA Cup heroics /

Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson has been awarded the Mitre Sports Save of the Round award for his heroics against Fulham. 

The 22-year-old was in fine form throughout, arguably putting in his best ever performance for his boyhood club. 

He was especially superb in injury time, though, when he produced a brilliant double-save to deny Bobby De Cordova-Reid and Willian. 

Rightly, that has won the youngster some national acclaim. 

Tony Mowbray singled him out for praise for his performance in the cup tie, saying: “The goalkeeper... listen, he's a top goalkeeper.

“I've been in football more than 40 years and this kid is a very talented boy who has an amazing temperament.

“Nothing fazes him, he's very calm about everything, he's not bouncing all over the place and losing the plot.

“He's a very calm goalie who makes great saves.”

Patterson, though, was not interested in taking acclaim then, so he probably isn't bothered about the award either in truth! 

"Obviously that's my job," he said when asked about the save. "I have to stay switched on for the full 90 minutes and never know when I'm going to get called upon. It's important that I do that and help the team out.

"[Double saves] are something that I work on everyday pretty much and I'm always trying to help out the team as much as I can and thankfully I was able to on Saturday."

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MICHAEL GRAHAM

Michael Graham is a professional sports writer with more than ten years of industry experience. After pursuing football writing by helping establish the Roker Report Sunderland AFC fansite, Michael moved to Planet Sport to cover football.  Michael has since worked on many of the sports sites within the Planet Sport network, including Football365, TEAMtalk and Planet Football before leaving to join 90min. As well as football, Michael is an accomplished tennis writer and has been regularly featured on Tennishead, TennisBuzz and Tennis365. It is football that is his first love, though, with Sunderland AFC his particular passion.  Contact: michael@buzzpublishing.co.uk

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