Wigan travel to Arsenal tomorrow night and we need the Gunners to do us an almighty favour. They themselves need to win though, and there's plenty of reasons to feel confident that they will beat Wigan, so stop all your worrying ok?

Our attacking play has been nothing to shout about of late, but we thought we'd take a look at the numbers to see just who is performing the best out of a less than impressive bunch.

Stephane Sessegnon is the latest subject of our By The Numbers series, in which we begin to discount any personal opinions as much as possible and look purely at the stats to draw some conclusions on the player's performance.

We're back once again with another installment of By The Numbers - an occasional look at Sunderland from a statistical stand point. For this edition we look at David Vaughan and whether or not he deserves a spot in the middle of our midfield.

Back once again, it's our statistical feature By The Numbers - where we can ignore opinion and look purely at the numbers. Obviously they don't tell an entire story, but it does make for an interesting and alternative look at things.

It's been quite a while since we did this feature. Mainly as we were locked out of our stats account, but we're back now and we're looking at the numbers to try and work out who is best to partner Lee Cattermole in midfield.

It's been said that this season we've got what should be considered good results in isolation, unfortunately they've all come along at once and everyone seems a little depressed about it. Lets look at last season compared to this...

Another week, another edition of By The Numbers. This week we look to shoot down some of the myths surrounding Lee Cattermole. He can't pass? He's dirty? Phooey. Let the stats speak for themselves...

We continue our analysis of SAFC's squad as we take a look at O'Neill's options for the right wing, a position currently firmly in the possession of Seb Larsson

We take a statistical look at how Sunderland's central midfielders fared in the season just gone.