American owners may not be popular in Manchester or Liverpool but Sunderland's Ellis Short is a hero
American owners of Premier League clubs have a popularity rating at present that is somewhere south of greedy bankers and grasping politicians.But at Sunderland a publicity-shy Yank by the name of Ellis Short is winning the sort of plaudits that have so far eluded the Glazer family at Manchester United and Tom Hicks and George Gillett at Liverpool.Short may not be in the same financial league as Sheikh Mansour at Manchester City or Roman Abramovich at Chelsea, but he has emerged as a genuine ...