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To punters, it was the most predictable result of the season. To the participants, it was supposed to be a turning point, the match where they would reverse an ominous series of results and begin the crawl to safety. The punters got paid. Sunderland and West Ham got a point each but little satisfaction. Gus Poyet has overseen improvement since taking charge of Sunderland but still only produced two wins in nine league matches and his team remain …

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• Manager admits he is not enjoying life at present • Next two games could reveal light at end of tunnel Gus Poyet has acknowledged he is enduring the toughest challenge of his football career at Sunderland but is determined to prove equal to it. The Uruguayan’s side travel to West Ham United on Saturday five points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League table. “I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Poyet, who criticised …

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Sunderland manager Gus Poyet says his players have suffered a setback after recent defeats, but are ready to face West Ham United

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says despite Liverpool’s 4-1 win over West Ham, the team are still developing and focusing on scoring more goals

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Anyone mistaken enough to leave Anfield early yesterday may have departed feeling short-changed. A ticket tends to come with the guarantee of copious quantities of Luis Suárez goals, and after the feast, an 80-minute famine followed. Then Suárez struck to take his extraordinary haul at home to 10 goals in four games as Liverpool reeled off a fifth successive win on their own turf. Compared to his spectacular efforts in Wednesday’s 5-1 thrashing of Norwich, this one was comparatively mundane: a far-post header …

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• Striker on the mend after double fracture of right foot • ‘I can see the light at the end of the tunnel’ Andy Carroll admits he is itching to return to help save West Ham’s season after returning to the club’s Chadwell Heath training ground for the first time in three months this week. Carroll has not played for the Hammers this season and has spent time in the Netherlands and Belgium recovering from a double…

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• Jol sacked by Fulham 24 hours after damaging loss • Leap of faith by Shahid Khan to appoint Rene Meulensteen Martin Jol’s parting shot to the press after Fulham’s 3-0 defeat by West Ham on Saturday afternoon had something fittingly elegiac about it. “I’ll see you soon … I hope,” Jol said as he disappeared down the nearest corridor. In the event Jol may yet be seen again in English football, but it will not…

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