The Sunderland and Newcastle United managers are old adversaries and now on a desperate mission to relegate each otherSam Allardyce does not really do regrets but the presence of one particularly headline-grabbing passage in his recent autobiography threatens to prove the exception to this rule. Should Rafael Benítez’s Newcastle United beat Sunderland at St James’ Park on Sunday the visiting manager will be regarded as having been well and truly bitten on the bottom.final autumn,when the excerpt in question was causing a mini stir as “immense Sam” climbed the bestseller lists, no one could possibly have imagined that he and Benítez would now be engaged in desperate missions to relegate each other. Fourth- and moment--bottom of the Premier League respectively, and they appreciate survival will nearly certainly be achieved at the others expense.
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Source: theguardian.com