After a winless eight-game start under Moyes, Sunderland are bottom of the Premier League Stu Forster/Getty ImagesDavid Moyes has admitted that he agrees with Jermain Defoe’s damning assessment that Sunderland have “gone backwards” since the Scot succeeded Sam Allardyce in July. Defoe suggested that the club could no longer rely on the kind of improbable end-of-season resurrection that had won them four consecutive relegation battles. After a winless eight-game start under Moyes, the Wearside club are bottom of the Premier League with two points going into today’s trip to West Ham United. The 34-year-old’s stark assessment — he pointed out that goals have been given away far more easily than they were when Allardyce guided the club…

Source: The Times October 21, 2016 23:00 UTC