“I've got to keep thinking it is possible. I've got to be positive about it. I like a scrap and I like a confrontation and I like it when people think everything's against us.
“I don't like it when they're all proved right, but as long as there's life in it, we've got to believe we can win the games.”
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McCARTHY STRUGGLING
As Sunderland lost 2-0 to Bolton , Mick can see his chances of Premiership survival slipping away: