David Wagner may be sitting pretty second in the Premier League with Huddersfield Town but Daniel Farke, the man who succeeded him as Borussia Dortmund’s reserve-team coach, has yet to get his copycat project at Norwich City off and running. The German was given a schooling by Simon Grayson, that most traditional of meat-and-two-veg English managers and the latest to be given the task of rebuilding Sunderland’s tarnished reputation. This victory, courtesy of two goals from Lewis Grabban, the one-time Norwich striker who also inadvertently scored for his former team, and a superb strike from Aiden McGeady, offered a huge hint that Grayson might achieve that in double-quick time. Or, at the very least, cure the majority of the ills that have dogged Sunderland for…

Source: The Times August 13, 2017 23:03 UTC