Just two games into his Black Cats career, David Moyes says Sunderland are in a relegation battle. Over to you, Twitter.
Even by Sunderland’s standards, upheaval has been the order of the day at the start of this season.
Their survival-expert manager departing, their key player demanding a move away, and two defeats out of two; it’s all too familiar.
And that’s not even half of it. Sunderland’s home defeat at the hands of newly-promoted North-East rivals Middlesbrough was the Black Cat’s 16th consecutive winless game in August.
In fact, Sunderland haven’t won in the season’s opening month since Darren Bent netted an injury time penalty against a Manchester City of Joleon Lescott (below), Adam Johnson and Jo in 2010.
David Moyes’ post-match declaration that Sunderland will spend yet another season embroiled in an endless struggle against relegation, then, hardly dispelled the cumulative clouds hanging above the ironically named Stadium of Light.
“I think it will be (another relegation battle),” Moyes said after yet another summer defeat for Sunderland, reported by the BBC.
“I don’t think you can hide the facts. People will be flat because they are hoping that something is going to dramatically change – it can’t dramatically change, it can’t.”
As Manchester United fans will tell you, Moyes doesn’t exactly do himself any favours in the soundbite stakes, once saying they should aspire to be like Manchester City.
As the boos rang out at full-time, the former Real Sociedad boss should have known this was not the time for harsh reality. Won’t you think of the Tweets, Moysie?
Always worth a reminder, David Moyes once managed Manchester United. Yes, that did actually happen.
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