Jonathan Wilson: Sunderland's slump not related to departure of Bent

[Jonathan Wilson]

Since Sunderland sold Darren Bent to Aston Villa, it has lost three of the four games it has played. The conclusion many have drawn is that Sunderland is "missing" him. This is the sad truth of punditry about sides outside the top five or six in the league; that it looks only at the surface, never beneath. What is particularly worrying is that that shallowness of analysis seems to extend even to the England manager.

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