Tony Mowbray wants another crack at managing in the Premier League - and believes Sunderland is the ideal stage on which to realise that ambition. Mowbray won the Championship with West Bromwich Albion in 2008 and managed the Baggies in the top flight in the 2008-09 season, although that campaign ultimately ended in relegation.
Since then he has managed in Scotland with Celtic and in the Championship and League One with Middlesbrough, Coventry City, and Blackburn, before taking over on Wearside in August but the 59-year-old still has the hunger to be a Premier League manager once more. "I'm of an age where I would like to manage in the Premier League and test the water again - I've done it before and I'd like to do it again," said Mowbray.
"I read the other day that [ex-Black Cats boss] Martin O'Neill said Sunderland will be in the Champions League one day - well, why not? I know down the road at Middlesbrough Steve Gibson feels that, because I've managed for him.
