Stick or Twist?

Following a stunning win at Stamford Bridge eight days ago Sunderland boss Steve Bruce faces arguably his biggest selection dilema in the year and a half he's been managing the club.

In top scorer and Wearside talisman, Darren Bent's abscence Sunderland ran out 3-0 winners against Chelsea handing the Premier League leaders there biggest home defeat since Russian owner Roman Abramovic has been at the club.

The strikers selected by Bruce for the game: Asamoah Gyan and Danny Welbeck were integeral in this victory; harrassing Chelsea's makeshift back four and scoring Sunderland's second and third goal respectively.

After working effectively as a partnership Bruce must decide whether to keep faith this pair or bring back Bent.

I feel Bruce should show faith in the pair; while Bent has been side-lined Sunderland's record signing, Gyan has scored four goals for the club and looked like money well spent.

While Danny Welbeck was arguably the stand-out player in a magnificent Sunderland performance at the Bridge and probably ought to be rewarded with a chance to prove he can perform like that on a regular basis.

Welbeck's form has been erratic at the club but much of that might have to do with Bruce using the striker as a left-winger which his not best role, given a run in the side up front Bruce may get the best out of the young talented Englishman.

While it is hard on Sunderland's best player over the past 15 months to have to sit on the bench it would be even more unfair in my opinion for him to walk back into the team ahead of players who haven't put a foot wrong whilst the England International has been missing.

Picking the right team for tonight's game is especially important as Everton are possibly one of the team's best placed to derail Sunderland's momentum.

The Merseyside club contain some of the best midfielder's in the Premier League outside of the supposed 'top four' and will come to Sunderland looking to take 3 points from the Stadium of Light.

With both teams looking to win the game tonight's contest could be something to savour.

Data Skills Test

For a assignment I was required to pick a piece of data from the Guardian Data Store, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store and put it into a spreadsheet on google docs.
Following this I placed the information into a chart.
I looked at the information regarding British casualties in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2010. My data covers the total number of combat field hopspital admissions between 2003-2010.
I chose this information as the Uk's involvement in Afghanistan is something which most people have an opinion on and therefore these statistics are likely to provoke a emotional reaction from some people as well as a variety of opinions.
Here is my chart bellow:

Video skills test

For an assignement I was required to submit a interview of roughly 30 seconds to a video sharing site.
Here I have interviewed Manchester United fan Mike Boon discussing Manchester United's chances of winning this season's Premier League.
Here is the video I posted on Youtube:

Map Skills Test

A task for an assignment required me to upload a map showing areas which four stories from an edition of the Lancashire Evening Post covered.
The locations for the four stories are all from the Preston area and are shown in the map bellow.
The map also contains links to the LEP website showing the online article on each story. 



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