It took 81 minutes for something to finally happen at the Stadium of Light in an otherwise boring match between Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland, but boy did it happen.With a synergic (please forgive the horrendous startup talk—that word was so great before co-opted [damn, I just said co-op, didn't I?]) series of events, the Spurs strung together a lovely number of passes that lit up the roster, as Ryan Mason made a beautifully-paced overlapping run to catch the better end of a sequence that he helped set up.Such a glorious goal ended awkwardly as Mason fell to the pitch in weird agony while on his way to celebrate.
I bet the man wished that all of those people who dogpiled him were a team of medics instead of uneasily celebrant teammates.