David Moyes’ old-school ways helped to drag ailing Sunderland over the edge | Louise Taylor

Apr 30, 2017

The manager’s strangely dated mindset and transfer failures are largely to blame for the club’s relegation and there will be few tears if he leaves

Within hours of becoming Sunderland’s manager last July David Moyes boarded a privately chartered plane. He and the team were bound for a French training camp but an ominous grinding noise from the engines and slightly tense looks exchanged among the cabin crew soon confirmed they would be making a detour.

Engine failure had prompted an awkward emergency landing. With the benefit of hindsight, it seemed an ominously emblematic portent of an impending season destined to conclude with the club bumping down hard into the Championship and Moyes’s carefully burnished reputation in ruins.

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