{"id":283272,"date":"2022-11-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=283272"},"modified":"2022-11-20T06:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T06:44:19","slug":"i-felt-sheer-incredulity-at-how-a-club-sunderland-s-size-could-languish-so-long-in-the-third-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/i-felt-sheer-incredulity-at-how-a-club-sunderland-s-size-could-languish-so-long-in-the-third-tier","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I felt sheer incredulity at how a club Sunderland&#8217;s size could languish so long in the third tier&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get the Birmingham City view ahead of the Championship clash at St Andrews. Sunderland face Birmingham on Friday in the last game for both clubs before the World Cup break. It&#8217;s been a while since we locked horns with the Blues, so we sought some expert opinion to bring us up to speed with what&#8217;s been happening down at St Andrews. That brought us to Brian Dick , who covers the club extensively for Birmingham Live , and we couldn&#8217;t have hoped to find a bigger &#8211; or nicer &#8211; authority on the club. He also brought news of two former Sunderland players doing well, which is always nice. Anyway, the questions&#8230; Birmingham finished 20th last season but go into Friday&#8217;s game in the top ten. What has changed and how much is down to John Eustace? BD: The structure of the team, the organisation, the fitness, the mindset and the quality in midfield are the main factors behind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get the Birmingham City view ahead of the Championship clash at St Andrews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}