Wales manager is happy to take on poisoned chalice.
CHRIS Coleman was keen to return to club management – and not even the ‘poisoned chalice’ of the Sunderland job has put him off.
The 47-year-old is set to be unveiled as the north-east club’s new manager in the next 24 hours.
He succeeds former Preston boss Simon Grayson, under whom the Black Cats had made the worst start ever to a Championship season by a relegated Premier League club.
Coleman – a defender for Swansea, Crystal Palace, Blackburn Rovers and Fulham in his playing days – has a mammoth job on his hands to turn Sunderland’s fortunes around.
They went into yesterday’s home game against Millwall bottom of the table and with just one league win to their name.
Coleman kept Fulham in the Premier League for three seasons in his first managerial role.
But his greatest success in management is undeniably leading Wales to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 – their first major tournament since the 1958 World Cup.
This story is from the November 19, 2017 edition of The Football League Paper.
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