Niall Quinn and Jamie Carragher have backed Sunderland to establish themselves as a top-10 club after securing Premier League safety under Sam Allardyce.Wednesday nights 3-0 victory over Everton ensured Sunderland will play Premier League football and enjoy the riches of the bumper new TV deal next year, despite a season of struggle.Former chariman and striker Quinn insists the manager deserves enormous credit for the work he has done and encouraged the club to give him a long-term contract. Watch Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce dance for the fans after the club survived relegation with a 3-0 win against Everton Sunderland have developed something under Sam Allardyce, which is huge, Quinn told Sky Sports.Theyve been used to escaping but theres something different about tonight. You feel theres something really strong to build on.He has something really big going on now and I think it could last for years. Sam Allardyce has steered Sunderland from relegation He is the perfect fit. The Sunderland fans shout louder for a tackle than they do for goals sometimes and he brings the robustness that this club is missing.Theyve had a soft centre at times, but not with him around. The organisation is really good and he is a different class in the transfer market.The fit is so good with Sam Allardyce. He has come in and done an incredible job just trying to keep the club up, but theres nobody better placed to go and bring it to the next level.I hope he signs for quite a number of years and sees out his days here. Patrick Davison and Davie Provan look back on an action-packed match at the Stadium of Light as Sunderland secured their Premier League status in style Allardyce replaced Dick Advocaat in October with Sunderland in 19th place and they have spent more days in the relegation zone than any other team this season before securing safety with a game to spare.And Sky Sports pundit Carragher believes the appointment of Allardyce will ensure they wont be in the scrap again next season.He said: Sam Allardyce is a Marmite sort of character as a manager. Some people love him and some obviously dont. Jan Kirchhoff was delighted after Sunderlands 3-0 win against Everton With Sam Allardyce youve an absolute guarantee of Premier League football. Thats what he is and I dont think he gets enough credit.He plays a certain way and people over the last few years have said its all about possession and passing, but you see what happened tonight with the manager on the opposite side, Roberto Martinez, who is like that. Sunderland won 3-0.Under Sam Allardyce, this Sunderland team will get back to the days of Niall Quinn and Kevin Phillips under Peter Reid when they were comfortably in the top 10.Also See:Sunderland 3-0 EvertonAs it happenedCheap Nike Blazer Mid 77 . -- Sergey Tolchinksy scored his second goal of the game 3:56 into overtime as the Sault Ste. Nike Blazer Wholesale . -- The Magic have their first victory of the new year. http://www.cheapblazershoes.com/ . Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team took control of the game early. Cheap Nike Blazer Mid Premium . 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It also plays on neutral territory three days later, with its away match against Ukraine being held in Poland as its opponent does not recognize Kosovo as an independent state.It will be a hard game, Kosovo coach Albert Bunjaki said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday. We know that Croatia is a good team and after three days well play against Ukraine. But at the same time you know in football you can surprise.Weve started the qualification. Our goal is 2020. At the same time of course we will try to do the best in every game, so the next one is the Croatian national team. We will get the answer after the game. We will try to surprise them as we can.It was a far from easy match against Finland. Kickoff was less than five hours away when the sportss governing body finally allowed six players who had represented other countries to switch their allegiance to Kosovo now the former province of Serbia is recognized as a football nation.dddddddddddd.Valon Berishas case was the last to be resolved and the former Norway international converted the penalty which secured Kosovo a point in Group I, putting it level with the other teams after both Croatia-Turkey and Ukraine-Iceland also ended 1-1.Its going to be hard for us because we just started up with this national team, Berisha said. We are a lot of new young players who dont know each other very well. I think it will take time until we form a really good group.We made a good first impression I think and we could have won the game against Finland. But now we are up against two really good international teams. It will be hard for us but we can surprise them because they might take us a little bit easy and it might go against them.Defender Leart Paqarada also believes Kosovo has the right mix of talented individuals to spring a surprise.Our team spirit is very well and we are well prepared for the game, he said. We have individual quality in the team and thats why I think maybe we can surprise somebody.---Llazar Semini in Tirana, Albania contributed to this report. ' ' '