Substitute Tom Watson has scored a stoppage-time winner and Sunderland has rallied to beat Sheffield United 2-1 in the Championship playoff final and earn promotion to the Premier League.

This is why great sport is irresistible. The skill, the luck and the tiny margins change life courses and produce memories and passions never to be forgotten.

With 95 minutes played at Wembley, only one man on the pitch was guaranteed to be at a Premier League club next year and that was the 19-year-old Sunderland winger Tommy Watson – on as a substitute and already looking lively.