The clocks may have gone forward but this time of year is usually when Sunderland slip backwards.
Take their push for an immediate return to the Championship two years ago. At one point in early April, they sat in the second automatic spot with a game in hand only for their promotion dreams to combust during a torrid run of one win in six.
They were still trying to banish the horror of the subsequent 94th-minute play-off final loss to Charlton from their minds when Covid-19 forced the suspension of League One in March last year.