His entire demeanour at Sunderland was defeatist right from the off though. Almost as though he was trying to absolve himself of any blame if/when the inevitable happened, because "well, its Sunderland". There's a difference between tempering expectations (as CH has done here), and all but...
As others have said, he was on a hiding to nothing at Man U trying to fill Fergies shoes so I wouldn’t hold that against him.
But Moyes did nothing at Sunderland to halt the malaise at that club, in fact he added to it. Spent £40m-odd on basically bringing half his Everton squad in (Anichebe...