O’Neill up and running after ‘dream’ start

MARTIN O’NEILL confessed he’d ran through dozens of scenarios in his mind as to how his first game as Sunderland manager would pan out.

They all ended in victory for his new club too. None of them were fanciful enough to involve coming from behind to win with two goals in the final six minutes though.

“Even in my wildest dreams, I never thought it would turn out like this,” the Irishman confessed, after maintaining his record of not having lost his first game in charge of any of his six senior sides, a run spanning two decades.