Sunderland a Cats whisker from return to Premiership

Wigan 0 Sunderland 1

After spending all but two weeks of the campaign in the top two, Paul Jewell’s men now find themselves behind the Black Cats and Ipswich, with just five games remaining to turn the situation around.

It represents a chilling repeat of 12 months ago, when Wigan only fell out of the play-off places in the final minute of the final game and Jewell now faces a major test of his managerial abilities to lift a side that has now suffered back-to-back home defeats inside four days following Saturday’s reverse to West Ham.