No festive cheer as Roy finally loses it
Niall Quinn represented the past in the boardroom, with Keane the present and Martin O’Neill seems destined to be in charge at the Stadium of Light at some point in his career.
It’s one of worst kept secrets in football that the Villa manager is a Sunderland fan, something even he admitted last week, with an almost encyclopaedic memory of following us as a child. He revealed that whilst most Irish kids picked Celtic as their first team, he bucked the trend of Arsenal, Man Utd or Spurs and went for the Black Cats.