Sensational Sunderland qualify for Europa League after 10-man Chelsea fall apart
Who saw this coming? Exactly one year ago Sunderland won the Championship playoffs and were installed as everybody’s relegation favourites. Régis Le Bris and his wonderfully resilient side harboured a rather different vision and they executed it so well they have finished seventh, securing a lucrative passport to the Europa League. No one is patronising Sunderland now.
This fully merited win against a Chelsea side whose own European ambitions were shredded along the way was in many ways emblematic of their season. It was a day when the second-tier old boys upstaged the Club World Cup holders, when Enzo Le Fée eclipsed Chelsea’s World Cup-winning Enzo Fernández and when the excellent Granit Xhaka ruled central midfield. What price Le Bris for manager of the year? Continue reading...
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