The position surrounding the manager’s position grows curiouser and curiouser and when we approached the subject in a recent conversation with a highly placed source we took a verbal slap!

Having been told last week that the question would be asked for the first time should we fail to beat Sunderland, the script seemed to have changed.

We were told categorically and in unfamilar frost tones: “I’m not going there. It’s a highly divisive matter and this is not the time to be discussing it.”

Hmmm, sometimes silence speaks volumes