Sensational Sunderland qualify for Europa League as 10-man Chelsea fall apart

Who saw this coming? A year ago Sunderland won the Championship playoffs and were everybody’s favourite for an immediate relegation. Instead Régis Le Bris’s wonderfully resilient side have finished seventh and secured a lucrative passport to the Europa League.

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 and Enzo Le Fée eclipsed Chelsea’s World Cup winning Enzo Fernández.