The Black Cats midfielder and full-back took a very cheeky comment from the club’s Twitter admin in his stride.
Sunderland ace Luke O’Nien took a while to nail down a first-team position at the club following his summer move from Wycombe Wanderers.
For much of the first half of the League One campaign, the 24-year-old featured sporadically for the Black Cats, as seen on his season stats page on Transfermarkt.
However, since being shifted at right-back by manager Jack Ross, O’Nien has become a fixture in the Sunderland starting XI amid a serious promotion tilt from the third tier.
Indeed, the summer signing has certainly made himself at home at the Stadium of Light, and over the past few weeks has encapsulated the feelgood factor on Wearside after years of turmoil.
From putting January arrival Jimmy Dunne through his paces in the boxing ring to coming in for extra training on his day off, it seems as though Black Cats fans have a new cult hero on their hands.
One minor complaint regarding O’Nien relates to his sense of fashion (or lack thereof, depending on your perspective), which the Sunderland Twitter admin openly admits to wanting banned:
But fair play to O’Nien, who took it in his stride and replied in, ahem, style:
And some Sunderland fans weighed in with their own thoughts on Twitter:
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