article_snippet: For you can as good as write off the last two matches of this desperate campaign, trips to Arsenal and Chelsea.
article_snippet: Sunderland have not won away in 2015 and there is no evidence to suggest they will start to do so at the home of top-four opponents.
article_snippet: — but things have very quickly got ugly. '
article_snippet: The only important thing in the final games is winning,' said the 67-year-old, whose Premier League debut ended in defeat when Diafra Sakho struck two minutes from time. '
article_snippet: The way we do that is not important.
article_snippet: we will play very negative if the need is there.'
article_snippet: That, you feel, is a match Sunderland must now win.
article_snippet: Defeat is not an option. '
article_snippet: I know the intensity of these games
article_snippet: But Newcastle for us now is the most important thing.