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![The football manager, who went onto take charge at the Stadium of Light later in his career, was a Sunderland fan growing up. He recently stated: "I was growing up as a kid, don’t know where it came from probably because Charlie Hurley played for them, I was a big Sunderland fanatic. So I went to Sunderland as a manager based on this romantic notion of where Sunderland were based, the crowds that they got at the old stadium, which was Roker Park. They’d not moved to the Stadium of Light when I was up there [as a fan]. This idea that ‘do you want Sunderland to be all the things when you were supporting them’ that they never were."](https://www.sunderlandecho.com/webimg/b25lY21zOmE4YzVkOWVhLWQ2ODAtNGQ5Ni05YjU1LTc2ZTk3NjhhMzg3NTo5ODIyMzI5OC1mMDQzLTQzYWMtODdkMS0xNjdlZWEwZDNjMjM=.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&quality=70&width=471)
