Ali Dia has gone down in folklore as the man who conned Graeme Souness into giving him a Premier League match, despite possessing a talent level several leagues below the top tier of English football. Yet Sunderland's own Dia-esque story hasn't quite enjoyed the same level of fame, despite featuring a similarly massive managerial cockup. Milton Nunez arrived on Wearside from Greek side PAOK, costing Sunderland a pretty hefty £1,600,000 in the process. He made just one appearance for Peter Reid's swashbuckling 7th-place side, and never came close to a Premier League match again. Rumour has it that Reid was intending to sign Nunez's PAOK striker partner, Adolfo Valencia, a man some six inches taller, with experience at Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid (as opposed to Nunez's stints in the Honduran and Guatemalan leagues).
