Chris Dunlavy

BEAMING beneath a spatter of sponsors on his first day as manager of Sunderland, Chris Coleman listened patiently as the press pack questioned his sanity.
“It’s a daunting task, I admit,” insisted the Welshman. “But I’ve come into this job with my eyes open.” Maybe he did. Yet, two months on, you have to wonder whether those eyes were covered by rose-tinted spectacles. The simmering, furious figure who stalked into the Riverside media centre last weekend was a far cry from the buoyant optimist of mid-November.
Gone, too, ...