Page 15 - All at Sea Fanzine Issue 68

February 2018
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throughout his stay with us on radio and TV. Sometimes after a poor performance, he used to brag about bringing the team in for extra training on the Sunday morning after the game – yet other times after poor performances this didn’t happen and one may have wondered why. Yet all became clear when that North East accent suddenly appeared on your radio dial. When it suits you, Phil.
The Other Jobs
“Sunderland are my football club and being the manager of Sunderland would be my dream job because of that.” Phil Brown, 1st November 2017.
Links to other jobs were always going to be inevitable with Brown in charge, and with a promotion in the bag there were plenty of jobs he was linked to in the nearly ve years he was with us.
The trouble was, he never really played
down any of the links. Quite the opposite, in fact. He seemed to be actively announcing himself as being linked to the job, giving quotes about it being a job he’d love, before throwing in the “but I’m doing a job here” caveat. Many saw through this charade, but with the position he’d created for himself within the media, every time a job at a former club became available he was able to push himself towards the top of the favourites list and so was always strongly linked to the vacant roles, even though the clubs never actually seemed to take much notice.
Eventually after linking-but-not-linking himself to jobs at Sunderland, Hull, Bolton and even England (LOL) the fans really began to grow weary of our manager trying to whore himself out to any former club who lost their manager. And if the fans were sick of it, imagine how the players felt! Imagine being Ryan Leonard and being told over the Summer that you’re not allowed to move to She eld United, and being asked to remain