Hostile chants of: “Are you watching Ellis Short?” echoed to the rafters as late goals from Darren Bent and Liam Boyce consigned Sunderland to a second successive relegation while offering Burton an extremely frayed Championship lifeline.
Although a last-gasp controversy with Sunderland having a stoppage-time equaliser disallowed for a perceived handball, deflected a little of that anger against Sunderland’s absentee American billionaire owner, it was ultimately irrelevant. There should be no sense of Wearside injustice. Not at the end of a season when Sunderland’s descent into the third tier for the second time in their history has long felt inevitable.
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