When Carroll went on that run of form they linked him to Chelsea,Arsenal,Spurs and more I'm sure. Couldnt wait to see him go to a "big club". Same with Rodwell and countless more that I can't just think of.
Michael Gray walking around Sunderland for MOTD2. It's the first time I've ever seen the place, it genuinely looks like an Eastern European town circa 1980.
"in charge of all footballing matters"
don't worry I'm sure he spent the week at Ajax and Barcas academies absorbing their philosophies on football like a sponge before coming back to Newcastle like a mother bird coming back to her nest and regurgitating what he learned to the expectant coaches.
That or he sat in his sitting room in a inflatable kids paddling pool drinking wine from a box watching Brookside and Vinnie Jones' football bloopers on his VCR.