Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Sheffield United – Championship Play-off Final - Saturday 24th May 2025 - KO 15:00

Hope the link works:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1VUKUpT6m2/

(sussed it, I think)

 

I’ll never forget it - I was just finishing my pis$!

 

Me as well. Went to the local casino to watch it with Mrs and Mstr K. Went for a slash and on the way back I saw Tommy Watson running around with his top off so realised something had happened.

 

Definitely seen it before
I think it’s on the Safc YouTube videos - maybe from a different angle

 

Has Reggie been interviewed properly since the final or have I missed it amongst the plethora of video's knocking about.
I bet he felt like a dog with 2 dicks for at least a week, and rightly so....I know I would've.

 

Hope the link works this time. Tommy scoring, followed by carnage (different angle)

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FDRYKV3gz/

 

He did an interview just with Italian media for some reason, back in mid June. It was on this thread way back:

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...s-arne-slott-pep-guardiola-sunderland-5177436

Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport and Cronache di Spogliatoio, Sunderland head coach Regis Le Bris has reflected on the club's emotional promotion and outlined his excitementat leading the Black Cats into the Premier League.

The Black Cats boss also answered questions on a range of topics, including what it would be like to manage against some of the top-flight’s best managers. Here, we take a look at everything Le Bris said during the interviews:

"Sunderland is a giant of English football that has fallen and is now resurrecting," Le Bris reflected when asked about promotion to the Premier League. "The thing that impressed me most about the series is the attachment to the team by the fans. These are people who live for Sunderland: they have an incredible passion for this club."

Le Bris described how he was taken aback by the passion on Wearside from the moment he arrived: "The first time I met them was in front of the official club shop, when the new shirt came out. There was a 100-meter queue, with people waiting there since the morning to buy the shirt. They didn't know me, I was almost a stranger."

"The fans welcomed me super well, from day one. During the pre-season camp in Spain, 2,500 of them came to watch a friendly. Incredible. For the play-off final at Wembley, 35,000 of our tickets were snapped up while Sheffield's didn't manage to sell them all."

Le Bris pointed to the data, which painted Sunderland as long shots at the start of the 2023-24 campaign: "Opta gave us less than a 5% chance of finishing in the top 6 and a 25% chance of being relegated back to League One. We managed to overturn the predictions with the work on the pitch and with the strength of an extraordinary group, which used the common energy to obtain great results."

"We are talking about the NBA of football, but it is an exciting challenge and we like challenges," Le Bris said when asked about the difficulties of the Premier League. "I am not scared, I remain convinced that it must be a collective effort: we want to build a strong team, a strong staff, a strong structure. Maintaining our values, I think, is what will allow us to be successful."

Recalling the full-time scenes at Wembley, Le Bris said: "There were 35,000 Sunderland fans celebrating and going wild. It was magical. At the end of the game, the journalists were looking for me for interviews. I stopped them. I said: 'Just give me two minutes. Let me spend a moment with these fans.' Incredible. It took a while to realise it, but yes: we are in the Premier League."

Asked about facing the likes of Arne Slot and Pep Guardiola, Le Bris said: "The way I am, I don’t worry too much about the future or the consequences: I always take it one day at a time, trying to understand how I can improve the team at this precise moment. I think about one minute at a time, and it will be the same when we have to face Liverpool."

"What were the chances of Sunderland being promoted to the Premier League? It is clear that we will have to overturn some predictions, but we will try with our identity and our community."

"At the first meeting, I asked the lads what, in their opinion, had brought them to be there, at that moment, at the pre-season camp. Everyone responded by talking about the common desire to go to the Premier League," he said. "These are words that you hear often, but in this case the words were combined with facts, sacrifice, the desire to really get there, all together."

"There was an incredible alchemy right from the start. There were important players from whom I asked a sacrifice, to whom I sometimes said that they would not start: no one ever complained, everyone put themselves at the service of the team."

"I worked with a group of young guys: our team had the lowest average age of the whole Championship, and yet we managed to work hard, in an incredibly mature way, being supportive and above all arriving fresh at the end of the season. It is no coincidence that in the play-off semi-final against Coventry we scored the decisive goal in the final minutes, and it is no coincidence that we won the final at Wembley in the 95th minute."

 

Thanks Robo for posting that, hadn't seen it before

 

All these videos have got me giddy for a friendly with bloody South Shields can’t wait to watch the wizards again man

 

Sky camera focusing on Jobe at the final whistle. He was immense after dropping back when Neil went off

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AwcULGMAh/

 

Great that!

 

ah man why didn’t we get Clive’s commentary?!?

 

Sorry to bump this thread again but couldn't resist.

 

No.2 son and I watched the full 90, again, last night. Well there was nowt on tele.
As if I need an excuse

 

No, it had occurred to me, I’m really looking forward to a long interview with him from preseason which you have to assume there will be.

 

As if you need to apologise for bumping this!
It should be pinned at the top of the page.

 

Thanks mate.....that ****ing hay fever is still about making my eyes water.

 

We all like to believe our particular club ‘gets under the skin’ of players.

That's because we’re all biased.

But it has to be said that there’s no reason ‘foreigners’, like Amad, Quinn, Defoe, Peter Reid, etc, should be openly celebrating at Wembley or attending our games, there has to be more to it than that.

They’ve all had various clubs and careers away from Sunderland, mostly at bigger clubs to be fair …

… so perhaps it’s simply that we're not so biased after all.

 

That is brilliant!!