Martin O'Neill scotches rumours of his resignation from Sunderland

• False reports were disseminated on Twitter• Sunderland owner told manager of his concernMartin O'Neill was sitting at home on Saturday evening, watching a re-run of Sunderland's 4-2 defeat against West Bromwich Albion when the phone rang. It was Louise Wanless, the club's head of communications, calling to tell him he was "trending" on Twitter following assorted, false, reports that he had offered to resign and/or actually resigned before leaving the Stadium of Light that afternoon."At the moment it rang the referee had just given West Brom a penalty and I was cursing so it was a bit of a double whammy," said Sunderland's manager. "It was a bit of a surprise but Louise put it quite nicely so I probably smiled. It's absolutely not true but anybody can tweet anything these days so nothing should surprise me. Tweets run like wildfire. I've got to the stage where I just accept these th...