Former Sunderland boss Jack Ross has made it clear that he would have preferred that the cameras had not been following the team when he was in charge.

The League One side have been part of a Netflix documentary for the past few years, with the latest 'Sunderland 'Til I Die 2', released at the start of the month.

And, whilst many agree that Ross came across well on the screen, he told Chronicle Live that his only focus was on managing the team and that in an ideal world he wouldn't have had the distraction of the cameras.

"I never complained about it, but I said right from Day One that it would have been my preference not to have the cameras there. That’s no different to any other manager, I think – Simon [Grayson] and Chris [Coleman] said similar things about the first series.

"I was there to be a football manager, not a TV star."

Ross' Black Cats side lost the play-off final and he was sacked earlier this season, with the Scotsman now in charge of Hibs.

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The verdict

You can understand where Ross is coming from and you can imagine that every manager in the world would feel the same.

Whilst it's not a massive distraction, it can't have helped but it's something that he would have got used too as the campaign progressed.

Ultimately though, it made financial sense for the club and it didn't impact the way that Ross did his job in the north-east, with Sunderland just coming up short under his guidance.

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