Quick or slow for the SoL hotseat?
FANS DIVIDED OVER WHETHER CLUB SHOULD RUSH APPOINTMENT
Sunderland fans are divided over whether the club should move quickly to replace David Moyes.
The scot resigned on Monday after a disastrous campaign in which the Black Cats finished rock bottom of the Premier League.
Opinion on the streets of Sunderland yesterday was evenly split -–but there was plenty of support for the return of Kevin Phillips.
Eighty-year-old Thomas Cockburn, from Penshaw, is a lifelong fan: “I think they want somebody in as soon as possible,” he said.
“I think they should give Kevin Phillips a go, with somebody to help him. He has got the club at heart.”
Whoever comes in will have to be realistic about the situation in which the club finds itself: “They will have to get players who are used to the Championship, like Newcastle did last season,” said Thomas.
Gavin Jennings, from Hendon, is so disillusioned with developments at the Stadium of Light that he has stopped going to senior games. He wants to see the club take care with the next appointment.
“We have had, what, 15 managers since Peter Reid left?”
“Roy Keane would be brilliant for me,” he said.
Seventeen-year-old Dom Moan, from Sunderland, said: “I think they should take their time. They need the right manager. I want someone like Nigel Pearson or Kevin Phillips.
“The lads would play for him, and the supporters would get behind us if we are managed by a club legend.”
Trevor Potts thinks the club should move ‘really quickly’ to make an appointmentm and former Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri is the man for the job.
“They need to get somebody in quickly, who knows what he is doing,” said 61-year-old Trevor.
“We need somebody who has got experience.”
Bill Coles, 74 is so disgusted with the team’s performances of late that he has taken a vow of silence – unsurprisingly, it didn’t last long.
Bill, from South Hylton, also thinks the club should move fast:“I think probably Kevin Phillips but I do worry he’s not got enough experience,” he said.
“I would like to see him and the lad who has just won a medal at Wembley – Julio Arca.”
Bill’s friend Michael Crawford, however, thinks more caution is in order.
“It has been the same way for about ten years now,” he said.
“The manager has been a short-term decision.”
“I think they want somebody in as soon as possible” THOMAS COCKBURN