Sunderland v Newcastle United: live New Mackems boss Gus Poyet showed his hand and Fabio Borini, one of three quick-fire substitutes, drilled in a spectacular winning goal against the run of play with six minutes left for play. A late moment of terror when John O'Shea tried his best to head a Newcastle equaliser into his own net was survived by the skin of goalkeeper Keiren Westwood's finger tips. Win secured, Sunderland off the bottom of the table, Newcastle will wonder what more they could have done. Watch out all you police horses out there. Full time - Sunderland 2 Newcastle 1 Poyet fist pumps his way around the technical area, the roof lifts off the Stadium of Light, it's a first win of the season in the league at the ninth attempt. Sunderland climb off the bottom, four points adrift of safety but one point above Crystal Palace. Newcastle stay tenth. 90 + 3 min The seventeenth tame long range shot of the day from Cabaye is the last action of the game. 90 + 2 min Another Sunderland corner. And another one. The little vein on the side of Alan Pardew's head is acting up. 90 + 1 min Sunderland corner, like a gift from the Gods. Fair to say they're not over-committing men forward for this one. 90 min We're going to have another four minutes. Poyet shrugs wearily - an Ian Holloway-style resignation citing exhaustion waiting to happen? 88 min Sunderland probably shouldn't be left unsupervised for too long. A nothing ball into the home team's penalty area is almost turned into a cataclysmic disaster by John O'Shea who lobs his own goalkeeper with an inexplicable back header that Westwood does well to reach, claim and bring to earth an inch the right side of the goal line. 86 min Newcastle, by far the better team in the second half but now behind, send on Sammy Ameobi for Gouffran in a desperate attempt to salvage something from the wreckage. If I was Alan Pardew's cat I'd be making myself scarce tonight. 85 min Potentially quite a day for Gus Poyet if his team can hang on here. Bizarrely Borini has scored just twice since signing for Liverpool last summer, and they have both come against Newcastle. Needless to say, that's his first for Sunderland. SUNDERLAND 2 Newcastle 1 (Borini 84 min) Who said that? Fabulous goal from substitute Borini, collecting a lay off from Altidore and drilling into the far corner past Krul who gets a touch but is beaten by the power and accuracy of the shot. 82 min This is in danger of petering out into a draw that suits everybody and nobody. 78 min Finally the Sunderland of the first quarter hour are back. Pressing Newcastle high up the field the win the ball back in a dangerous area and Altidore intelligently wins/cheats a free kick on the edge of the penalty box to set up a dangerous free kick... Fletcher pummels it straight into the wall. 77 min Shola Ameobi is an inch away from adding to his prodigious scoring record against Sunderland. A low shot from the edge of the area beats Westwood all ends up but isn't quite bar-wide. 75 min Sunderland, with Bardsley now completely lame, are on the rack rather here with Santon cutting infield from left back and drilling wide with his right foot. Finally Ondrej Celutska is introduced with Bardsley heading for the showers. 72 min It seems Cabaye has had a wager on scoring from a long way out today. His latest effort from fully 30 yards away, wide left, is safely gathered by Westwood. Phil Bardsley has cramp - he's played more Blackjack than football this season so far of course. 69 min Enthused, Poyet now sends on Ki Sung-Yeung for Lee Cattermole. Newcastle meanwhile are bringing on Shola Ameobi - seven goals in nine appearances against Sunderland - for Loic Remy who has been totally anonymous today. 68 min The switch nearly has an immediate effect. Altidore heads the ball down, Borini collects wide in the penalty area and his low shot squirms beneath keeper Tim Krul but not, quite, over the goal line. 67 min Here comes that Sunderland change. Adam Johnson, not surprisingly after a day to forget, goes off and Fabio Borini comes on to replace him. 63 min Just as a reminder, the eclectic bunch of foreign legion misfits available to Poyet from the bench this afternoon line up as follows: Ki, Gardner, Celustka, Giaccherini, Roberge, Borini, Mannone. 62 min It's starting to look ominous for the home team now. Ben Arfa skips and tricks his way across the field looking for a shooting chance and when he can't find one he sets up Cabaye instead who curls the ball a foot wide of the post. 60 min Sunderland respond with a corner, sent high and wide to the far side of the area for Colback who tees up Larsson for a first time shot over the bar. Big moment for Sunderland this - their fragile confidence has no doubt been dented by a lost lead and it's the Newcastle fans making all the noise, and the visiting players all the running. Poyet deep in conversation with assistant Mauricio Taricco on the touchline. 58 min Adam Johnson won't enjoy seeing the replay of that one too much. He was fast asleep, allowing Debuchy to run in unchecked behind him and score easily. The winger did exactly the same thing back in the 21st minute and was reprieved by his goalkeeper but no second chance this time. Sunderland 1 Newcastle 1 (Debuchy 57) Well, it seemed as though Newcastle were playing into Sunderland's hands with a low-tempo start to the second half but out of nothing Debuchy steals in at the back post to slam in his first ever goal for the club from a couple of yards out. 52 min Referee Lee Probert not covering himself in glory there. Altidore is scythed to the ground on the edge of the box by Dummett, the ball runs free to Fletcher so an advantage is played and his shot is deflected behind by Williamson. It's either a Sunderland free kick or a Sunderland corner - goal kick is the decision. 51 min Goalscorer Fletcher, who made an early return from injury for this game, left the field at half time holding his shoulder and seems a little laboured in the early moments of the second period. 49 min Any hope that the half time switch from Newcastle would lead to them making a fast start to the second half, as Sunderland did to the first, has been killed off by a dire four minutes. One where it might not have been a bad idea to be a bit late back to your seat. 46 min Back underway, Newcastle kick off moving from left to right with their supporters at their backs. A first Sunderland clean sheet of the campaign will snap a club record run of four straight home defeats at the start of the season. 14.30 Alan Pardew hasn't finished meddling with his team yet - striker Papiss Cisse replaces Moussa Sissoko at half time. Positive, attacking move to try and haul his team back into the game. Half Time - Sunderland 1 Newcastle 0 Lightning start from Sunderland who flew out of the traps, scored an early goal through Steven Fletcher and battered Newcastle for the opening quarter of an hour. A break in play allowed Alan Pardew to shuffle his pack and Newcastle have been the better side ever since, without ever managing to force a save from Westwood in the Sunderland goal. The Mackems have the worst defensive record in the league - 2.5 goals conceded a game on average - and Loic Remy has five goals in six games for the Magpies so far. He's been ominously quiet to far but this game is far from over. 45 + 1 min We'll have two added minutes at the end of the half, and Debuchy has rather foolishly committed a foul tight to the touchline giving Adam Johnson a chance to send over one last free kick. It's dreadful and cleared easily. That'll about do us I think. Birthday announcements and half time raffle draw numbers to follow... 42 min Excellent goalkeeping from Westwood, springing from his line to claim a Cabaye cross after Probert again awarded a generous free kick to the visiting side in a wide area. 40 min Conditions are worsening. It's what the locals might call 'breezy' and the rest of us would refer to as 'the seventh circle of Dante's Hell'. Wind whips in bringing lashings of rain and bits of disused oil platforms. The game has descended into a niggly, reasonably dull affair. 36 min Fairly generous decision to award Tiote a free kick 30 yards from goal for an alleged foul by Fletcher. Tiote seemed to start his dive long before the Sunderland man arrived - sometime on Thursday afternoon in fact. Ben Arfa bends the ball well off target from the set piece. 35 min Much more Gus Poyet-style football from Sunderland here, calming the game and slowing the tempo right down with a prolonged period of possession that Tony Pulis would almost certainly point out hasn't really got them anywhere. 30 min Newcastle's now familiar 'queue at the post office' set up for corners is causing Sunderland problems. Williamson, up from the back, sends a dangerous header towards goal that the home team scramble away. 27 min No such luck for Yohan Cabaye though - he cracks into Colback and is rightly booked. 26 min Cheick Tiote, sent off after 23 minutes of this game last season, responds to a shirt pull from Larsson by turning round and shoving the Swede to the ground with two hands up around his necl. Lee Probert is in benevelent mood, and no card is issued. 25 min Santon's dangerous cross flies through the Sunderland box untouched but Newcastle have established themselves in the game now and it's a much more even contest. 21 min A cross to the far post invites Sissoko, totally unmarked as he runs past Johnson into the penalty area, to challenge Westwood for a high ball but Sunderland escape. Newcastle, a different team altogether after that switch, immediately attack again and Cabaye drags a shot wide. Sunderland's turn to look a little nervous. 20 min Newcastle play a corner right out to the edge of the box for Debuchy to try his best Paul Scholes impression, but they haven't thought the routine through and when the shot rebounds to safety Sunderland threaten a counter attack that is derailed by an offside decision. 18 min Alan Pardew is frantically calling players to the touchline to effect a change of system, with Loic Remy seemingly moving into a more central attacking role. He's got problems at the back though, where Dummett - 22 years old, die hard Newcastle fan and with just two starts for the club prior to today to his name - looks like the proverbial rabbit in headlights. 15 min Continuing a theme, Cabaye has a go from fully 35 yards, with a free kick this time, and goalkeeper Westwood saves slightly nervously down in the bottom corner. Straight down to the other end Altidore feeds Fletcher who cracks a first time shot that Krul parries, Dummett dwells on and Altidore fails to convert. 14 min Johnson crosses deep from the left flank and Fletcher is able to get his head to the ball again, but he's jumped too early and can only direct the ball wide of the mark. 13 min Not for the first time this season I'm sitting in this chair watching a Newcastle side being out-fought and out-worked by a side apparently a good deal more motivated and committed to the cause. The visitors have hardly had a kick, and are being hassled out of what little possession they are managing by a high-tempo, high-pressing Sunderland set up. 11 min Ben Arfa, from similarly optimistic range, sends a shot sailing into the crowd to the audible delight of the home crowd. 10 min Cabaye, who scored a fabulous long range strike in defeat at Everton recently, lets go of one from distance but clears the cross bar. 6 min Straight from the restart Newcastle's Yohan Cabaye snaps into the back of Fletcher who is furious and booked for his reaction. Sunderland 1 Newcastle 0 (Fletcher 4) The first corner of the afternoon goes to Sunderland and Newcastle are asleep as the home team work a short routine that allows Adam Johnson to flight a delicious ball up to the back post where Stephen Fletcher is at the head of a long queue of Sunderland players waiting to power home a close range header. Lift off. 3 min Seb Larsson accelerates down the right flank and whips a dangerous cross into the heart of the penalty box from the byline but Newcastle are able to head away. 2 min As you would expect so far: nobody allowed to settle on the ball, tackles snapping in from both sides. It looks like Jose Altidore is going to have the first crack at unsettling young Dummett - the big American has very deliberately pulled onto Newcastle's inexperienced centre half. 13.30 Underway at the Stadium of Light - referee Lee Probert is the man charged with keep hold of this 'desperation derby'. Start the clock on the Lee Cattermole yellow card sweepstake. 13.25 Here come the teams. Niall Quinn in the Sky studio says it's time for the Sunderland players to "man up" and do their bit for the club's hierarchy. Gus Poyet has made four changes to the side for his first home game in charge with Andrea Dossena making his debut at left back. After several defensive aberrations so far this season Alan Pardew has gone for an all-English centre half pairing of Mike Williamson and Newcastle-born Paul Dummett. 13.10 Of course there's an unusual subplot to today's biannual tear up between these two bitter rivals.... When trouble flared between the two sets of supporters following the game at St James' Park last season Newcastle fan Barry Rogerson - 45, Bedlington, Northumberland - took it upon himself to punch 'Bud' the police horse in the face. The clip went viral on You Tube and Rogerson was jailed for a year earlier this week. Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth (sorry) it seems the merchandise sellers of Sunderland have wasted no time in cashing in on one of football's more bizarre, unsavoury incidents... 13.00 Two desperately unhappy camps then, hardly the ideal preparation for a North East derby where the desperation of both sides should make for an even more frantic, frenetic encounter than usual. Sunderland won 3-0 at St James' Park when last they met - Di Canio ruining a perfectly decent designer suit with a knee-slide celebration down the touchline became one of the iconic images of the 2012/13 season but it was a false dawn for the Italian and the club which is now surely staring relegation in the face. Defeat for either team today will leave them wondering where on earth they go next, which makes a high scoring draw a fair bet. 12.50 Things aren't a great deal happier at the other end of the Metro line at St James' Park. While Sunderland couldn't stop signing players in the summer, Newcastle struggled to get anybody through the door. There was a peculiar lethargy about the way the Magpies went about their business in the close season with only long term target Loic Remy, on loan from Queens Park Rangers with a hefty fee paid to the Londoners into the bargain, in through the entrance door. The club reasoned that having made six signings at considerable expense in January another overhaul wasn't required but performances and results haven't backed that up, and it's the newer arrivals - particularly hapless defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa - who have struggled most. Again, fingers are being pointed at the situation above the manager's head. Chief scout Graham Carr was lauded for his efforts when Newcastle finished fifth in 2011/12 but Joe Kinnear has been parachuted into a director of football position with a remit nobody, including Kinnear and manager Alan Pardew, seems to quite understand. 12.40 New Sunderland manager Gus Poyet could certainly be forgiven for wondering what on earth he's let himself in for. Any hopes that the Black Cats were merely losing games because the players weren't playing for his predecessor Paolo Di Canio in some sort of protest at his extreme, totalitarian managerial style were blown out of the water with a 4-0 thrashing at Swansea in Poyet's first game in charge last time out. That leaves the Mackems nursing a record of one draw and seven defeats from their first eight games of the season. Questions over the performance of director of football Roberto De Fanti, who oversaw a bizarre summer of 14 new arrivals and the sale of key men Stephane Sessegnon and Simon Mignolet, abound but won't help Sunderland in the short term. Points are needed quickly, and the team has shown little capability of doing that so far. Poyet's first move was to take the whole squad out for dinner during the week to try and ease tensions and build camaraderie. To be a fly on the wall of that restaurant... 12.30 Here are the teams for this afternoon's North East derby... Sunderland: Westwood; Bardsley, Dossena, O'Shea (c), Cuellar; Cattermole, Colback, Larsson, Johnson; Altidore, Fletcher. Subs: Ki, Gardner, Celustka, Giaccherini, Roberge, Borini, Mannone. Newcastle: Krul; Debuchy, Williamson, Dummett, Santon; Sissoko, Tiote (c), Cabaye; Gouffran, Ben Arfa, Remy. Subs: Elliot, Haïdara, Anita, Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi, Cissé. Sunday, October 27 2013 Sunderland v Newcastle United Stadium of Light Kick-off: 13.30 GMT TV: Live Sky Sp 1, Highlights BBC One Match of the Day 2 Sunderland (Possible, 4-4-1-1): Westwood; Bardsley, O'Shea, Brown, Colback; Johnson, Ki, Cattermole, Giaccherini; Altidore; Fletcher. Test: Brown (calf/shin). Referee: Lee Probert (Matches 5 R1 Y2) Team News Sunderland defender Wes Brown could make a first competitive appearance for the club in almost 21 months against Newcastle on Sunday. Match Notes It is stupid to think no other game matters because, even if you won both derby matches in a season, you might go on to lose a cup final or be relegated.