Lee Johnson has sent a good luck message to Sunderland ahead of next week's League One play-off final - and says he will be rooting for his former charges as they look to seal promotion the Championship. Johnson was sacked by the Black Cats in January despite the club sitting third in the table and just two points behind then-leaders Rotherham - albeit Sunderland had played more games than their rivals - with a 6-0 defeat at Bolton that left the Wearsiders with just one win in five games proving the final straw.
He was succeeded by Alex Neil who halted the slide and led the club to a fifth-placed finish, and now to a Wembley clash with Wycombe Wanderers a week on Saturday. Johnson was in charge last March as Sunderland ended their 48-year wait for a win at the national stadium, as they lifted the EFL Trophy.
And the 40-year-old insists he has no regrets following his spell at Sunderland and is full of praise for both the club and its fans, and he hopes Neil can be the man to get them out of the third tier - 12 months after his own bid to do that foundered with a play-off semi-final aggregate defeat against Lincoln City.
