Jonathan Wilson: With Gus Poyet at the helm, Sunderland pulls off a miracle survivial

[Jonathan Wilson]

There are times when football doesn't make any sense. By the time the final whistle blew on a blustery and wet night at the Stadium of Light on Wednesday, the atmosphere was one of raucous celebration. The raw facts of a 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion that lifted it to fourteenth come nowhere near capturing what Sunderland have achieved in the past month, touching rock bottom before responding with the most gloriously improbable of resurgences. This is what it must have been like at Lazarus's wake.

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