OTD (09/11/1992): Crosby Is Caretaker At Sunderland… Again!
This led to comments by Aidan Semmens in the Echo, stating: “Malcolm Crosby began his career as Sunderland manager as caretaker.
Key points
- In one of football’s quirks, as the local journalists pondered who might replace Crosby, at the top of the list was the manager of Sunderland’s next opponents.
- Two days earlier, Crosby’s Sunderland had been demolished 5-2 at Chris Turner’s Peterborough United, with the home side being 4-1 up on the hour mark.
- Sunderland 1-2 Leicester, League match at Roker Park, Sunday 15th November 1992.
However, two days later, it was reported by Geoff Storey in the Sunderland Echo that Crosby would indeed be in the dugout for the next fixture at Roker Park against Leicester City.
With the form the way it was, the table was looking bleak and, after a capitulation at London Road, it was looking like the end for Crosby as Sunderland manager.
Additional details
- Shaun Cunnington from Grimsby Town, John Colquhoun from Hearts and, at weekends, Crosby’s assistant Bobby Ferguson called up his mate Terry Butcher to help us out, as his knee wouldn’t allow him to train.
- There had been no word from chairman Bob Murray or the directors on the manager’s position, so much so that publicly Crosby believed his job was not under immediate threat: Everybody keeps going on about it, saying the board will sack me.
- But Sunderland couldn’t afford to be seen poaching other clubs’ managers and they wanted to avoid the situation of twelve….
- First up, his captain Paul Bracewell was fobbed off by the Sunderland board, so joined Keegan’s revolution up the road.
- They supported us in great numbers again and we’ve let them down with a bad performance.
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