Wes Brown's own goal saw Everton win 1-0 at Sunderland.
A fifth defeat on the trot did Sunderland's dwindling survival hopes little good.
Head coach Gus Poyet said: "If you need to show somebody somewhere in the world where they don't watch Sunderland every week, you show him this game and tell him this is the story of the season and that's it.
"You don't need to show anything else because that's it. Something always happens and that something is always, or most of the time, against us.
"I don't have a word because it's not one feeling, really. It hurts, it hurts because it doesn't matter what we do, something happens. And it's not an excuse, I don't really believe in luck."
