Ange Postecoglou the 'plastic' manager is perfect fit for a club at odds with its fans | Jonathan Wilson

There’s always been a tension between connection to place and the commercial reality – but it has never felt more acuteCharlie Hurley, the greatest player Sunderland ever had, died on Monday. He was tough, powerful and composed, captain of Alan Brown’s promotion side of 1963-64, which may have been the best of all postwar Sunderland teams. Certainly it was the side my dad talked about the most, far more than the FA Cup-winning team of nine years later. Montgomery, Irwin, Ashurs