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A goal worth £220 million, the winner of the Championship playoffs is born, Sunderland returns to the Premier League

6:46pm, 25 May 2025Football

The English Championship this season is enough to be recorded in history, with two 100-point teams born in the standings. Leeds United beat Burnley with a goal difference and the two teams entered the Premier League together.

The competition for the remaining quota is even more intense. Compared with the mutual humility in the Bundesliga in the Bundesliga, Hamburg has not forgiven the Bundesliga for seven years. The temptation of the Premier League is too great. Luton has to take a look after the two consecutive declines from the Premier League to the English League.

The team ranked last based on the new Premier League broadcast share will also receive a share of £220 million.

From the economic interests, this is a showdown worth 220 million pounds, with great value and the benefits obtained are even greater than those of the Champions League final. In the early morning of May 25, Sunderland and Sheffield United staged their final showdown at Wembley Stadium. Both teams mainly use red and white shirts. Sheffield United is the Premier League lift in recent years, while Sunderland has experienced the lowest point. Since being relegated from the Premier League 8 years ago, they have encountered financial crisis, relegation to the English League One, and lost players, but the only thing that remains unchanged among countless variables is the support of local fans.

For this reason, the documentary "My Heart is always with Sunderland". A certain petal score of 9.1 is about 4.1 "Dream-Chasing the Entertainment Circle". Inspired by this documentary, Ryan Reynolds, a big star from Hollywood, and star producer Mike Aheenry, bought Wrexham, a team in the English National League at the time, and filmed the documentary "Welcome to Wrexham". Now they have been promoted to the English Championship and Sunderland realizes his dream of the Premier League. Hollywood dramas in the football arena are being staged.

The process of this play-off is ups and downs. Sunderland was founded in 1879 and Sheffield United was founded in 1889. The history of the two teams has 282 years, which is even longer than the Champions League finals teams Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain.

The two teams are very close in ranking and value, and coupled with the temptation of 200 million share, this is destined to be a fierce and difficult game. In the 25th minute, Campbell scored the first goal, and Sunderland did not tie the score until the 75th minute. Mayand equalized the score with a powerful and powerful shot.

The two teams then fell into a stalemate again and the game had to enter overtime. In the 95th minute, Tom Watson of Sunderland killed the game. The 19-year-old young player scored only three goals in the entire professional league, including this priceless goal.

This game is still his farewell battle. In April, Brighton officially announced that he had signed Watson for 10 million pounds, which means that Watson earned Sunderland 230 million pounds in this month, and sold the fighter jets in the championship.

When the final whistle sounded, the entire Wembley Stadium was in a boiling state. Black Cat Sunderland returned to the Premier League after 8 years, and this young team quietly ushered in a revival. The core of the team is Job Bellingham, who is only 20 years old. He also has an older brother as the core of the midfield at Real Madrid. His younger brother leads the team to upgrade. His older brother is missing all four majors this season, and both of them have a bright future.

Job was elected the Youngest Player of the Championship in the Championship and was shortlisted for the Best Team in the Championship. Job's midfield partner is Chris Rigg, who is only 17 years old. The oldest player in the team's main lineup is 30-year-old central defender Onion.

This team, with an average age of only 23.4 years old, ranks fifth from the bottom of the Championship in the whole team, but relying on a fighting spirit, he broke out from the play-offs of powerful men. After the game, Onion cried and said, "These young people wrote miracles with their feet, and we deserve the Premier League."

Sunderland, with limited financial resources, may not dare to increase investment even if he has a guaranteed income of 200 million pounds. But I don’t want to repeat Luton’s mistakes. Club chairman David Jones once said: “We want to become a beacon for football in Northeast England. We will double our youth training investment in the next three years. The goal is to cultivate the next Jordan Henderson.”

And with the growth of Job, Rees and others, this goal does not seem to be far away. The team’s top priority next season is to relegate, but this group of young people are also eyed by various powerful people. Can Job and Rees still retain it? Can players trained by the youth training system be quickly competent for the Premier League?

These are real problems facing Sunderland, but compared with £200 million, these are nothing. It is time to show off your identity as an old Black Cat fan for 30 years.

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