Tony Mowbray insists he must live or die by his selection decisions, amid questions as to why he did not bring on Bailey Wright to help shore up his defence against Burnley last weekend. Sunderland were 2-0 at the Stadium of Light up and cruising at the break, with Burnley barely laying a glove on them.
But in the second half there was a dramatic turnaround as the Clarets came back to win 4-2, and that prompted some fans to ask why Wright was not brought on as an extra defender. "It goes through my mind at half-time, at 2-0 up, to put Bailey Wright on to shore it up," said Mowbray.
"And yet if you go on to lose 4-2 and you've changed your system and put more defenders on, I'm sure the very same people who were asking why Bailey Wright wasn't brought on would have been asking 'why the hell did he put Bailey Wright on?' That's football management, you have to accept that.
