Source: TheGuardian
Chris Coleman risks Ellis Short’s wrath with brutal Sunderland assessment
• Manager fans flames before Tuesday’s trip to Bolton• Coleman condemns players for ‘not standing up to the fight’Chris Coleman has risked the wrath of Ellis Short after making some brutally honest, and arguably incendiary, comments before his Sunderland side’s vital Championship trip to Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday night.With Short – Sunderland’s billionaire financier owner – now based in Florida, Coleman and Martin Bain, the chief executive, have been left to face growing flak from fans dismayed at the prospect of the team enduring a second successive relegation. Related: Football League: Sunderland suffer at the hands of Brentford Related: Sunderland, Hull and Middlesbrough struggle to adapt to life after relegation | Louise Taylor Continue reading......read full article
