Tony Mowbray makes it sound simple the way he’s led Sunderland to just three games from the Premier League.
But it’s been far from that. Obstacle after obstacle, blow after blow, has been overcome. He’s guiding a team of kids and a defence crippled by injuries, including now having no fit centre-halves for the two legs against Luton.
He lost star striker Ross Stewart to injury twice and Ellis Simms was recalled by Everton, leaving no centre forward to lead the line or target-man to hit in the box, for months. Skipper Corry Evans suffered a long-term knee injury in January.
