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CATS GO IN SEARCH OF THE ‘TUCHEL EFFECT’

Former Bristol City manager Lee Johnson

Graham Westley

WITH 16 wins in 29 League games (55 per cent), Lee Johnson didn’t seem a likely candidate for the chop. He’d won an apparently healthy 1.86 points per game. His Sunderland team were in third place in League One and in contention for automatic promotion.
One place ahead of them though lay Wigan with 17 wins from just 25 games (68 per cent) and a goal difference that was plus-9 better. They had 2.2 points per game.
Wigan’s win record was 13 per cent better, their points record was 0.34 better. I suspect that this may be where Lee’s issue sat.
Clearly, Sunderland’s board th...

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