David Moyes will say that Sunderland’s relegation from the Premier League is not his fault. It is his fault, however. This miserable season has been entirely of his doing.
Another manager may well have taken them down, as Moyes repeatedly insists would have been the case. But at least they might have gone down with a fight.
It did not have to be like this, Moyes could have found it within himself to at least attempt to motivate and organise a set of players who, as he readily admits, are not good enough for this division.
Instead, he chose to play the blame game, all the while pointing to the problems which pre-dated his arrival last July.