Former Sunderland midfielder Don Hutchison says Gus Poyet looks like a "dead man walking".
Hutchison wrote in the Evening Chronicle: "I read what he said about the supporters, the media and Peter Reid's team and it looked to me like someone who was trying to put the blame for the team's failings on other people, as if Gus is trying his very best but there are all these things conspiring against him.
"Let's get this straight: Sunderland fans will not turn on their team if they feel they are putting everything into it. The problem that has happened in recent weeks is that they're sick of being told the team is making progress and playing the right way when the evidence in front of them is telling them something completely different.
"I think he's carrying himself like a dead man walking at the moment."