The managers he has appointed in O'Neill, Bruce, Poyet, Di Canio, Advocaat, Allardce and Moyes were all met with widespread approval by their fans and on the face of it, other than perhaps Di Canio looked like pretty sound choices for a club like Sunderland.
Aye, that's fair enough. They all failed to deliver though. Maybe it's just their club culture that is completely rotten.