Sport 28-04-2005 who: Sunderland what: Promoted to Premiership where: Stadium Of Light, SUNDERLAND when: Saturday snippet: A 2-1 victory over Leicester City was enough to guarantee a place in top flight football last season for the first time since relegation in 2003. Simon Turnbull of The Independent says the Black Cats "are still carrying debts of £36million" and "unlike their graduation of 1999, the Wearsiders will not be stepping up with players of the quality of Kevin Phillips, Niall Quinn and Thomas Sorensen. Still, the future can wait. [Now is] a time for saluting McCarthy`s achievement in getting a sinking ship back afloat in the deep end of English football..." [... more]

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