A month of Mowbray at Sunderland – no No 9s, cautious giddiness and Mickey Mouse crocs
New York TimesSaturday evening at the Stadium of Light and Tony Mowbray wore an expression that said he knew he’d been proved right but most definitely wished otherwise. “Let’s not get too low.” Mowbray says he comes alive around footballers Half an hour after Preston, those words rang true. Generally, people come along for the journey and generally they like it.” Mowbray’s interest in young players is essential at Sunderland. I don’t know why that is — it’s what I do.” Before travelling to Reading and staying south with the squad for the subsequent game at Watford, he developed on that theme: “It’s really interesting learning about them, I’m watching them in their Mickey Mouse crocs, long shorts and funny hoodies as they walk to their cars, trying to figure them out. It’s a fine balance for any coach.” The club approach looks in part like a reaction to the past few years, when Sunderland were selling teenagers from their academy to balance the books — in a recent Liverpool under-18 game, three of their players came from Sunderland.
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