Some football snobs believe Wigan have offered nothing in the Premier League, ignoring how they're a wonderful example of how to over-achieve in modern football. After all, Dave Whelan didn't take the ultimate plunge in my dream for nothing.

Sunderland are safe after a wretched season but, even after watching Swansea and Arsenal deliver the fatal blows to Wigan, it's wrong to say that the club didn't save themselves from the drop.

Danny Rose and Connor Wickham have both been called up for this summer's Under-21 European Championship in Israel.

The season has been a wretched one to say the least. There is plenty of blame to go around and causes to be cited for the club's stunning on-pitch failure, so I asked our writers to take us through just some of them.

Sunderland inched ever closer to Premier League safety on Sunday afternoon, but could not secure the three points that would have confirmed their survival against Southampton. A 1-1 draw was more than the Black Cats deserved...

Wigan travel to Arsenal tomorrow night and we need the Gunners to do us an almighty favour. They themselves need to win though, and there's plenty of reasons to feel confident that they will beat Wigan, so stop all your worrying ok?

A bleak season on Wearside came to a frankly fitting end with a dull and uninspired 1-1 draw with Southampton - a result which makes Arsenal fans out of us all. Here is what we made of it.

Every week we review and recap the performances of those in red and white, and here's our scores and comments on today's performers.

Sunderland managed another crucial point at the Stadium of Light in a fairly poor game, but it means we're still relying on Wigan to fail to beat Arsenal on Tuesday night.

The teams are in for today's crunch clash with Southampton. Sunderland are having to make more changes on account of Craig Gardner's idiocy, so here's how we and the visitors lineup...