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Steve Bruce
One point from the bottom of the table, with one league win so far: Steve Bruce's Sunderland have already reached the depths of discord, fecklessness and abject football which they usually take until nearly Easter to reach.
Their ragtag band of thrown-togethers make Manchester City look like an object lesson in unity and solidarity. Today they travel to Bolton Wanderers, who have also started the season in reverse. Whichever side loses can look forward to replacing the stabilising Arsenal as the league's crisis club.
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