Not sure where to put this, but it felt like the most appropriate thread.
I think from watching our current plight, I thought why not rewatch some of Sunderland 'Til I Die as I felt that there would be some parallels with our doomed situation. And boy, wow, there were numerous - it was horrifying as only a few years ago, I was laughing about the shambles that engulfed that club
A few parallels that I noted were:
- Non-existent owners (Ellis Short never speaks with Coleman and, eventually, sells up at the end)
- A CEO, Martin Bain, who saw his role at Sunderland - and in the documentary - as, pretty much, a vanity project (Gourlay, perhaps, has his own issues)
- The awful scouting network (a list of out-of-reach Premier League players was displayed during that scene)
- A hopeless striker situation, pinning their hopes on a young, hard-working and misfiring young focal point (Harsh on BTA but I think we all know that he isn't the answer)
- A goalkeeper crisis - 3/4 are picked between the sticks throughout the season
- Players that had been at the club far, far too long (Cattermole, O'Shea)
- Huge earners offering absolutely nothing (Rodwell meet Zohore)
- Blood-boiling anger vented in the stands (Are we, as a fan base, closer to apathy?)
Admittedly, some of these comparisons may have been a stretch but there's no two ways about it: we are going the same way as Sunderland.