Why is everyone smartin, over Martin?
GARETH ROBERTS takes a closer look at the sacking of O’Neill
EVERYONE was quick to adopt shocked faces and jump aboard the outraged bandwagon following Martin O’Neill’s sacking by Sunderland.
Match of the Day, broadcast just hours after the decision was announced, was all stern faces, thin lips and shaking heads – it felt like the coverage of a state funeral.
“It’s bizarre,” Alan Shearer told viewers. “They are on a terrible run of form but it is the timing of it I find hard.”
The f...