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.

Substitute Tom Watson scored a stoppage-time winner as Sunderland rallied to beat Sheffield United 2-1 in the Championship playoff final and earn promotion to the Premier League on Saturday. Watson struck from the edge of the penalty area five minutes into injury time after Kieffer Moore gave the ball away,