Joleon Lescott was battling the mud and the swirling winds atop Penshaw Monument, an environment he would never have seen on the horizon when he left for balmy Athens last summer.
Victor Anichebe hopes Sunderland will be able to find a way of adding new faces to their injury-hit squad in January.
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