FANCY an outside bet this season? How about Sunderland to be relegated from the Championship?
They won three of their final 20 games last season and from Christmas onwards were the second-worst team in the division.
They haven’t made a single cash transfer so far this summer, and in Regis Le Bris have appointed a manager who was relegated from the French top flight last season with a Lorient side underpinned by some alarming underlying stats.
Winger Jack Clarke, whose virtuoso performances prior to suffering a serious injury in February single-handedly staved off a relegation...