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Mon 10 Oct 2007Points not plaudits are neededEnglish Premier League/ West Ham Utd 3 Sunderland 1: Kenwyne Jones did not deserve to be on the losing team. Nor did a clutch of his Sunderland colleagues, Grant Leadbitter prominent among them.But the Premier League is nothing if not remorselessly cruel to its new members and Sunderland were once again reduced to those empty long-range stares at full-time.