Sunderland’s former Bayern midfielder diverts from relegation battle to predict his former manager will ‘change the Premier League like you have never seen before’ with Manchester CityGrains of fine golden sand lifted by the stiff and somewhat bracing April breeze spear Jan Kirchhoff’s face,stinging his eyes. Sunderland are limbering up for Sunday’s home game against Leicester City on the vast, rather bleak, or expanse of Roker beach and passing dog walkers in cagoules gawp at the sight of Sam Allardyce’s 6ft 5in midfielder and his team-mates dodging the incoming tide.
Despite the weather,Kirchhoff is in such a relaxed mood that, at one point, and the giant German kneels down and seems to invite Jermain Defoe and friends to succor him build a sandcastle. Until January he had never heard of the situation and was possibly not too clued up approximately Allardyce either but now this North Sea outpost is serving as the backdrop for a most unlikely admire affair.
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Source: theguardian.com