THE SUN: Sunderland chiefs have been told: Your appointment of Howard Wilkinson is a massive blunder.

DAILY STAR: Glenn Roeder is facing the chop at Premiership basement boys West Ham in the next few days.

DAILY EXPRESS: Howard Wilkinson, Sunderland's shock appointment as manager, got the job after the club had been told it would cost £1million compensation to take Mick McCarthy from his Republic of Ireland post.

DAILY MIRROR: FA chief executive Adam Crozier last night revealed how easy it had been to let Howard Wilkinson join Sunderland.

DAILY MAIL: Howard Wilkinson stunned Wearside yesterday by arriving as Sunderland's new manager. But his new assistant already has designs on his job.

THE TIMES: Howard Wilkinson was the last English manager to lift the championship trophy, but that was not the picture conjured by Sunderland fans as the smelling salts began to bring them round yesterday.

THE INDEPENDENT: Howard Wilkinson and Steve Cotterill are not the most charismatic management team ever to take charge of Sunderland, but they are without doubt the most qualified.

THE GUARDIAN: Howard Wilkinson yesterday ended his six-year exile from domestic football to become the manager of Sunderland, an appointment which filled the Football Association's former technical director with far more enthusiasm than it did the club's supporters.

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Howard Wilkinson yesterday pledged to bring Sunderland a brand of management that was "as modern and forward-thinking as any in the world" as he set about rescuing the club from relegation.