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Sunderland manager David Moyes. (AFP)

David Moyes Leads the Flops of the 2016-17 Premier League Season

by Jacob Steinberg | Jul 4, 2017 | Sports

London – From two underwhelming managerial stints in the north-east to a struggling goalkeeper at a leading contender, here are the Guardian Sport’s flops of the 2016-17 Premier League season: David Moyes It is baffling to think that they were getting ready to...

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Sunderland manager David Moyes. (AFP)

David Moyes’ Old-School Ways Helped Drag Ailing Sunderland over the Edge

by Louise Taylor | May 2, 2017 | Sports

London – Within hours of becoming Sunderland’s manager last July David Moyes boarded a privately chartered plane. He and the team were bound for a French training camp but an ominous grinding noise from the engines and slightly tense looks exchanged among the...

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David Moyes feels he is paying for predecessors’ recruitment mistakes at Sunderland, has been unlucky with injuries and wants time to conduct root and branch reform. Photograph: Scott Heppell/Reuters

Sunderland Fans Expose David Moyes’ Decline and Could Spark His Fall

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | Sports

This time four years ago David Moyes was about to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but today he is struggling to restore his tattered reputation at Sunderland where a significant proportion of supporters want him sacked. It has been quite a fall from...

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David Moyes will be handed the opportunity to rebuild Sunderland next season, even if they are relegated to the Championship. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Toxic Mood at Relegation-Threatened Sunderland Is Helping Nobody

by Louise Taylor | Apr 5, 2017 | Sports

Managerial stability is supposed to promote reassurance, a sense of safety even, but its belated advent at Sunderland has merely prompted widespread insecurity. Last July David Moyes became the club’s seventh manager in five turbulent seasons as Ellis Short vowed to...

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Morgan Schneiderlin’s £24m transfer to Manchester United in July 2015 did not prove the dream move he expected. Photograph: Matthew Ashton – AMA/Getty Images

Manchester United Still Making Up for Louis Van Gaal’s Expensive Lost Time

by Paul Wilson | Jan 14, 2017 | Sports

One has to feel a little bit sorry for Morgan Schneiderlin somewhere along the line, even if the basic reason his move to Manchester United did not work out was because he could not prove himself a better midfield option than the 35-year-old Michael Carrick. United...