Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL
... AND SWANS NEED TO BACK HIM NOW

WHEN the manager of the year award is handed out, Russell Martin is unlikely to find himself standing at the dais.
But has anybody in the Championship done a more impressive job than the Swansea City boss?
Ludicrous it may sound to laud a man who has overseen the club’s transformation from play-off finalists under Steve Cooper to midfield also-rans in the space of 12 months.
Swansea, though, walked out of Wembley and onto the breadline. Gone were the parachute payments that had, under Cooper, masked a chronic l...