Your favourite manager of Sunderland...

Since you began to support the club. (1980 for me).

Peter Reid.

Try and post a pick if you can. A picture tells a thousand words.

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Bob Stokoe. If that team had stayed together who knows what they could have achieved.

 

Runner up for the 3 years we were amazing and the best football I've seen any Sunderland team play Peter Reid (although I didn't like the man). Proves you don't have to like the man to appreciate the football. He brought us SKP as well.

For saving the club from extinction. Denis Smith by a country mile. Took us from 3rd to 1st division and given some financial support, I reckon could have really made us a force. When I met him some years ago, he was also one of the absolute top blokes as well to crack on with. We could have gone out of business were it not for wor Denis. He brought us Marco as well.

This since 1975.

 

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Reidy for ne also.

 

Someone playing Countdown in the top left corner of that picture?

Anyway, for me it's Steve Bruce

 

Alan Durban was good, had he been backed who knows what he may have achieved.

 

Good choice of picture.

 

Oh my, the play off final!

 

Thought Durban would do big things.

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Reid, Smith, Stokoe or McColl. Sacking McColl was one massive blunder - he was building a lovely team around Jimmy Baxter. Nice to watch, firmly top division, and climbing it.

 

Bob Stokoe , for 4 reasons 1) saved us from relegation ( in the KAK when he arrived ) , 2) got us back in to black shorts , 3) turned Dave Watson in to Englands best centre half of the time ( nobody south of Tees recognised this of course ) when we had bought him as centre forward , cant remember the 4th something about 5/5/73

 

Roy Keane, he raised the club's profile and we'd be nowhere near where we are today without him.

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I'd agree with all four reasons you give - although it was assistant manager, Billy Elliot, who saw a centre-half in Watson. I remember when he got his first cap (October/November, '73?) it was announced that he'd only be there till Derby's Roy McFarlane got fit again. But once Watson got in, you couldn't get him out! I think his first six internationals were clean sheets. Best stopper I'd seen since Big George Young up at Rangers. Black shorts - yes, the white ones should never have happened.

5/5/73? - What could you possibly mean? Ha.

 

Peter Reid for me too. He will forever be a legend after the fly on the wall series 'Premier Passions' showed exactly how he managed the team. It's a good job that there was no 'swear box' in the dressing room! He'd be skint!

I have to say that I still have a lot of respect for Mick McCarthy. If ever there was an award for the most "hard done by" manager of our club, he would win hands down. I wonder if he would still be our manager now, had he received the financial backing that Steve Bruce has enjoyed over the last three seasons?

 

This - for the same reasons

Bart

 

Peter Reid for our two 7th placings, that 4-0 win over Chelski by half time was immense. SKP wonder strike. Quinn and Kev double act. Magic "I'm off to Rangers mate" Johnston, Nicky Summerbee et al. Some great football overall. Pure Entertainment on the Telly as well, you cant help but love the man. (even though he's a scouser !!)

 

Steve Bruce - he is the current manager and the current manager will always be my favourite

 

You could get a bed in Cherry Knowl marra!

 

That's care in the community for you Dorset.

I blame the government, they have a lot to answer for.