It was only last season that Sunderland were in the Premier League but they seem a million miles away from playing in the top-flight right now.Their 10-year spell in the Premier League came to an end last season after earning just 24 points, meaning they came rock-bottom.And the Black Cats will have to defy the odds in order to avoid back-to-back relegations.They currently sit in the relegation zone in the Championship and are three points from safety.But what happened on Saturday afternoon could give them the impetus to go on a run and produce a miraculous escape.Sunderland made the long journey to playoff hopefuls Bristol City and found themselves 3-0 down after just 37 minutes.It wasn’t looking good.In fact, it was looking so grim that the club’s official Twitter account decided to stick the boot in.On the 40th-minute, they tweeted: “The #redandwhite army are heading for the exits and to be perfectly honest you can’t blame them.”Unsurprisingly, they quickly deleted that tweet.Not the sort of thing you want to read from your official social media account, is it?And they will be very glad they did delete it.That’s because they incredibly earned themselves a point at Ashton Gate.An own-goal in the 70th-minute got them back into the match before Aiden McGeady set up a grandstand finish with nine minutes remaining.Then, in the first minute of injury-time, another own-goal saw them grab a dramatic point.

Forget Istanbul, this was Bristanbul…

We wonder if those Sunderland fans really did leave the ground or they were just going for an early pint.

Whether or not they can gather momentum from their incredible comeback to get themselves safe remains to be seen.