Sunderland's boardroom Neros continue to fiddle while Rome burns.
Their 'calm and patient' approach to appointing a new head coach has seen the club's automatic promotion hopes reduced to ashes in the space of ten days.
They have turned a drama - the disgraceful 6-0 defeat at Bolton - into a full-blown crisis, with the knee-jerk sacking of Lee Johnson on the eve of transfer deadline day sending the club into a tailspin that has seen further shameful losses against basement side Doncaster Rovers and now at struggling Cheltenham Town.