article_snippet: Advocaat, though, might have celebrated victory on Advocaat Premier League bow had former Hammer Jermain Defoe not spurned a first-half sitter.
article_snippet: The home fans were jeering Advocaat before that miss.
article_snippet: The home fans cheers were laced with irony by the time he was substituted on 88 minutes after a dire display.
article_snippet: And Advocaat said: ‘The luck was not on our side.
article_snippet: Advocaat wore a pained expression at the passing of what was the sort of chance Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe would have dispatched in his pomp.
article_snippet: And his would have looked even more horrified had