Both Sunderland and West Ham United are in danger of getting relegated to the Championship at the end of the season.
West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady has given her opinion on Sunderland’s current situation in her football diary in The Sun.
Sunderland are third from bottom in the Premier League table at the moment with 11 points from 14 matches.
The Black Cats are just a point behind 17th-placed West Ham and are in serious danger of getting relegated to the Championship at the end of the season.
Brady has suggested that for David Moyes’s side to escape the drop to the Championship, they need to keep striker Jermain Defoe fit.
Defoe, who is 34 years of age, has scored eight goals and created six chances in 14 Premier League appearances for the Black Cats so far this season.
“Sunderland are at Swansea tomorrow and are starting to get themselves out of trouble, with three wins in four,” Brady wrote in her football diary in The Sun. “But without taking anything away, I feel they are only one injury away from trouble.
“Jermain Defoe, 34, has given a struggling side half a chance of staying up. If I were David Moyes I’d wrap him up in Christmas paper, plasters and more bandages than an Egyptian Mummy.
“If Defoe stays fit, the Cats stay up. If he gets crocked, as the song goes, ‘There may be trouble ahead . . . ’.”
Sunderland will return to action on Saturday afternoon when they take on Swansea City away from home at the Liberty Stadium.
The Black Cats will head into the match against the Swans on the back of a 2-1 victory over Leicester City at the Stadium of Light in the league.
Moyes and his players will be confident of winning against the Welsh outfit this afternoon.
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