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Fri 05 May 2007Sunderland scoreA £10 million investment turned into a potential £100 million in just 10 months? Any venture capitalist would take those numbers PLATFORM Richard GillisIt took Roy Keane eight months to move Sunderland from 22nd place in the old second division to the Premiership. In roughly the same period, football's financial landscape has shifted, some believe fundamentally.