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Sunderland AFC fans from around the globe have raised a staggering £212,061 for local charities this season, as part of the Sunderland Together campaign.

They hadn't played competitive league football since November, their home gate is no more than 400 and they were representatives of a tier that had not appeared in this final for 40 years. At the end of football's longest winter, Hornchurch, the dream-makers, delivered something to make your heart soar. There are too many individual stories to relate them all. Rickie Hayles, the centre half: a plasterer who kept remembering with disbelief in recent weeks that he would be in a Wembley final. Liam Nash, the striker: a builder whose previous club had been expelled from the Gibraltar league. This...

Lincoln City 2-0 Sunderland Lincoln City will travel to the Stadium of Light with a two-goal advantage after Sunderland fell to a 2-0 Sky Bet League One Play-Off semi-final defeat in Wednesday’s first leg. Backed by the returning Sincil Bank faithful, Michael Appleton’s side started brightly in the Lincolnshire sunshine, but both sides were forced into early changes as Denver Hume and Adam Jackson limped off. Anthony Scully went close during the opening exchanges and Brennan Johnson struck the woodwork, with Lynden Gooch arrowing an effort just wide to ensure it remained deadlocke...

Keith Hill has spoken for the first time after he was sacked as manager of Tranmere Rovers last week.

Players line up for the national anthem wearing their arm bands. Photo: Phil Bryan, Pro Sports Images Tranmere Rovers paid a Wembley tribute to one of their own supporters who was tragically killed less than two weeks ago. The club's players donned black armbands over their traditional white strip in memory of dedicated supporter Martin Decker from Prenton. Rovers fans watching the Papa John's Trophy Final at home on television noticed the armbands and queried what the gesture was in aid of, before Tranmere's co-owner Nicola Palios confirmed the reasons behind it via social media. Res...