Sunderland return to Premier League
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The 2025-26 season will feature two Bellingham players playing in Europe’s top flight with the promotion of Jobe Bellingham and Sunderland to the Premier League
Tell them that in the end it really was worth it. That Sunderland’s eight years in the wilderness is over. That their club and their city is on the rise again. Tell them about how this was one of the greatest days of your life, even if for so long it looked like the wait would go on.
After the dramatic late winner from Dan Ballard in the semi-final against Coventry City, Tommy Watson ensured his last kick as a Sunderland player in the fifth minute of stoppage time was to fire the Black Cats back into the top flight. Watson’s late winner at Wembley ahead of his summer move to Brighton added to Eliezer Mayenda’s equaliser.
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