Break From the League Offers Hope of Recovery ; Sunderland Need a Win at Portsmouth to Exorcise the Demons From Their Nightmare at Chelsea. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Gives His Thoughts On What Is a Pivotal Game for Steve Bruce

The Journal › January 23, 2010

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STEVE Bruce would love Sunderland to do well in the FA Cup this season, particularly as he has never reached the latter stages of the competition as a manager. It is a blot on his managerial CV, but it is the black mark against his name following the 7-2 defeat at Chelsea which worries him more.

Bruce has never been on the receiving end of such a comprehensive thrashing. He has never been so badly beaten as a manager or a player, so humiliated and so embarrassed after 90 minutes of football as he was after that horror show at Stamford Bridge last weekend.

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Break From the League Offers Hope of Recovery ; Sunderland Need a Win at Portsmouth to Exorcise the Demons From Their Nightmare at Chelsea. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Gives His Thoughts On What Is a Pivotal Game for Steve Bruce

After such an excellent start to the season, Sunderland had looked like serious contenders for a European place, but where there was so much pride in the autumn there has since been an almighty fall.

The Black Cats did not so much fa...

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