Sunderland might have seemed like a dream move - but, as Micky Adams found out last year when he went to Leicester with Dave Bassett, being the secondary element of a partnership allows you little room to do your work.

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The friendship element in these relationships is secondary to achieving an outcome.

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Saxony kept the selective element, but sent pupils to secondary school at 13 rather than 11.

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