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Second tier drama is so hard to beat

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EVEN by Championship standards, it’s been quite a dramatic last week. Looking back, it was Sunderland’s 1-0 win at Stoke last Saturday that set the ball rolling. If Stoke had won that day and climbed into the top half of the table, perhaps things would have been different.
However, the defeat left them fourth from bottom and proved to be the final straw for the Potters board. They decided to jettison former Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill and swiftly turned their attentions to Sunderland boss Alex Neil to replace him. N...

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