A COUPLE of minutes into Michael Beale’s press conference on Thursday afternoon, and the lights went out because of a power cut at the Academy of Light. Sometimes, these things really do write themselves.
‘From light to darkness’. ‘Beale fighting to prevent the lights going out on his own Sunderland career’.
‘Why the Black Cats desperately need a spark’. When it comes to Sunderland at the moment, anything that can go wrong is unravelling at a rate of knots.
Rightly or wrongly, Beale finds himself at the heart of it all, the lightning rod for everything that is deemed to be inadequate at the club. And both on and off the pitch, there has been plenty to go at in the last couple of months.
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