Substitute Tom Watson has scored a stoppage-time winner and Sunderland has rallied to beat Sheffield United 2-1 in the Championship playoff final and earn promotion to the Premier League.

With 95 minutes played at Wembley, only one man on the pitch was guaranteed to be at a Premier League club next year and that was the 19-year-old Sunderland winger Tommy Watson – on as a substitute and already looking lively.

Sunderland are back in the Premier League after winning 2-1 in the Championship final against Sheffield United at Wembley in one of the most exciting comebacks in the recent history of the game as Tom Watson scored a last minute winning goal that propelled Sunderland to Premier League soccer 2025-26.