Sunderland's chairman, Kyril Louis-Dreyfus,
has revealed that he doesn't hold the majority of the club's shares.
What was believed to be a takeover has turned out to be a makeover.
It means we've been lied to, we've been misled. It's just shocking.
What's going on? It's just a big mystery.
If there's uncertainty at the ownership level,
it filters down through the organization to all departments.
What the football club desperately needs is for some stability.
How are you? All good?
When I came to the club, the takeover was very complicated
because there were multiple shareholders involved.
The deal we struck was that I become the controlling shareholder,
but not the majority shareholder of the club,
which is probably where the confusion came from.
- How are you? - All good. All good.
How is everything going?
I have the most seats on the board and full executive control.
So this is what was a condition for me to do the deal,
and this is what was the case from day one,
but ultimately, was never meant to mislead anyone.
Yeah, I understand completely where the skepticism from the fans comes from,
with all the history of the club,
but I think priority for now is to focus on the pitch,
and all of the other things can sort out in due course.
I think that most people in my position
wouldn't choose to, you know, move to the Northeast
and get involved in a football club, especially in the third tier,
because it's not as glamorous as the Premier League.
But to me, it was a very intrinsic choice.
I've always had football at the forefront of my life.
- This looks amazing. - All state-of-the-art.
My dad bought Marseille more or less
right around the time when I was born...
...so I really-- My first memories, my first childhood pictures
were of me wearing the Marseille kits.
It was extremely, extremely exciting,
because you have a big, passionate football club, similar to Sunderland,
where the people really live and breathe the football club.
There's only one team.
I really felt this excitement.
I think I was really privileged, more than anything else,
to... to be involved at such a young age and...
You know, I spent my summer there when I was 14.
I lived on the academy.
We still had Didier Deschamps as the coach,
who is now the French national team manager.
I had a lot of good mentors,
a lot of good, um, good CEOs we had over the years there,
that I could really learn a lot from.
Something that I love about professional sport,
I think the relentless pressure is something I really enjoy.
Welcome back to the Stadium of Light.
This is a game, there's no excuses not to win it, are there?
If you look at the table, it's ever so tight,
and Sunderland can't take for granted that they'll finish in that top six.
Roberts in the 85th minute now.
Clarke again. Clarke. Now back to Roberts. Roberts in the penalty area.
Oh, what a good ball!
From six yards, drives it into the bottom right corner.
Your work is being judged every three days,
especially here where you play 46 times a season.
Across here on the left to Cirkin. Cirkin now.
Running into the penalty area on the left-hand side.
- Chips one into the middle. Can he? - Oh!
The game is gonna end nil-nil.
You basically have Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday,
where either you win, and all the hard work pays off...
Swings a cross in here. Oh.
- Yes! That's the one. - And Nathan Broadhead's done it again!
And it's another late, late show from Sunderland.
...or you lose and have to find solutions to try and improve the situation.
Sunderland have lost more league games than they'd like.
At the moment, they're in the playoff places,
but they're queuing up outside Sheffield Wednesday.
Sunderland have played a lot of games. I think they're in the mix,
but Sheffield Wednesday have games in hand.
They're the ones you're looking at, thinking,
"Can it get back to where it wants to be?"
And what a moment that is.
Barry Bannan.
The door to the playoff places has opened once again,
and Sheffield Wednesday have walked right through it.
More than half the sides in that division
do not know which league they'll be playing in next season.
Everybody's saying, "Oh, we need six points."
And we do need six points. Yeah, I mean, I'm not stupid. I know that. Um...
But it's much sort of easier said than done.
♪ We are Sunderland We are Sunderland ♪
As soon as we sacked Johnson,
I knew that if we're not gonna get promoted,
it will be reflected as a bad decision by myself.
Embleton. That's not a bad ball at all.
Onto it there was Stewart.
It may prove to be a missed opportunity in their hunt for a playoff spot.
This is a heck of a league to get out of.
♪ On the river Where they used to build the boats ♪
♪ By the harbour wall The place you loved the most ♪
♪ I can see you there alone ♪
♪ But oh, you know ♪
♪ I'll be there ♪
♪ Soon ♪
♪ All your life You worked your fingers to the bone ♪
♪ You worked hard For every little thing you owned ♪
♪ That you gave away for years ♪
♪ As if you'd known ♪
♪ They were calling out ♪
♪ But if you could see me now ♪
♪ And if you could see me now ♪
♪ I hope that I'm making you proud ♪
♪ Proud ♪
Another sunny day in Sunderland.
Well, we've had plenty of disappointments,
but you don't know what's going to happen, do ya?
And it does go through your mind.
Oh.
Déjà vu, you know. This is as far as we're going to get.
Got to a point where we had to start winning every game.
You know? And we're, like, six, seventh.
Whereas one time, it looked as though we were nearly done.
You'd have put your mortgage on that we're gonna get promotion,
but it didn't work out.
It's an extraordinary run-in in League One this year.
We've just gotta win our games, get back in the dressing room afterwards,
then look for the other results, see how that's gone,
and, uh, take it, as I say, step-by-step.
Sunderland massively need points. Do you agree with that?
Uh, yeah, of course we need points.
Listen, let's be brutally honest. In this game coming up,
there's certainly gonna be more pressure on us than there is on them.
The ball curled in towards the post. Oh, it's in!
What a terrific free kick.
...in and it's headed down and in.
And Sunderland now lead 5-1.
So to the last day it goes.
It goes to the wire.
Sunderland have thrashed Cambridge by five goals to one.
They're in fourth after their big win, on 80 points.
One of three sides on 80 points.
This is a club that...
You know, there hasn't been that many really good days
for quite a while now at this football club.
You and these players have the chance to create one.
Yeah. I just find it funny, this.
Like, I know we've not had a good time, but the negativity is incredible.
I mean, I don't get caught up. I don't lie in my bed at night
thinking of if I'm the guy that can get this club into the Champion--
I don't think that way.
If you don't do the work behind the scenes
and don't get the processes right, you don't ever get to that point.
So at this moment in time,
my focus is on getting the team as prepared as possible
and trying to win that match.
In the battle for the playoffs, Sheffield Wednesday, 82, Sunderland, 81,
Plymouth, 80, Wycombe, 80.
Three out of those four. Who will be the side who will miss out?
Sheffield Wednesday starting the day in fourth place, of course.
Sunderland fifth, Plymouth sixth, a point behind Sunderland.
As Evans threads it through. Lovely ball for Broadhead.
Broadhead finishes!
Yeah!
Tenth minute, Nathan Broadhead scores for Sunderland.
Get in.
Lovely ball through to him by Evans.
And Broadhead kept his head
and smashed it down in the right corner underneath the goalkeeper.
What a marvelous goal.
There goes the full-time whistle.
Mazuma Stadium erupts.
It's ended with victory for Sunderland.
A place in the playoffs against Sheffield Wednesday.
Job well done.
Alex Neil applauds the Sunderland fans.
Alex Neil is hitting game after game.
He's got it right.
Send us... Send us whoever you want through...
You know, my club's there to support. And you've always got...
I think a lot of people when we first went down thought this is gonna be easy.
Uh, there's been nothing nice about League One at all.
It's been horrible.
Right side, isn't it?
But for some reason...
Right side in the army.
...I just feel as though it's our time.
I really do. I feel as though it's our time.
Couple of years ago, I was going down with PTSD myself,
and I was really struggling. And I was struggling to get the help.
So I spoke to me local MP, Grahame Morris, and his team,
couple of local county councillors.
And they said, "Let's do something about it."
So we set up East Durham Veterans.
We help people and we're saving lives. We've got a brilliant team here, you know.
Just a shame a few are Middlesbrough fans,
but you can't have everything, can you?
- Shotgun. - Come on, mate.
Get the tunes on, lad.
Nice sunny day.
- Look at that. Beautiful. - You don't get that in London.
We don't get an awful lot of time to actually take a step back
and step into the community, and see what, like,
the people who are coming to support us week in week out
get up to on a day-to-day basis, so...
The support we get is actually, like, mental.
It's fantastic really.
Little day out for me and Jack.
- Hello, mate. All right? - All right? Nice to meet you. I'm Andy.
- And you. Jack. - Hi. All right?
Welcome to East Durham Veterans Trust.
- I'll take youse in. - Cool.
- Hi. Youse all right? - All right?
Can I get to shake hands? Aye?
I'll tell you what it is, right? I was well impressed, thank you.
Cheers.
The last few years of this...
And it's just-- The whole place is just lifting up,
and everybody's on a feel-good factor. So thank you for that.
You're welcome.
We're going to be cracking the whip on youse.
You're going to be in the kitchen helping out in there.
Hot dogs and chips are on order.
We'll find out if they're good cooks in about ten minutes.
If I didn't cook within my household, we wouldn't eat.
So I sort of have to. I'd probably be-- We'd be sat here if I didn't cook.
If your relationships ever break down, we have a free meal here every Friday.
- It's called Mates and Bates. - Perfect.
It's brilliant. Saturdays, you get a free bacon butty.
If we're not away, I might pop by anyway.
Do the job in this.
- You all right? - Suits you.
- Splodge them on there somewhere. - Bring it closer.
- There's one. - Sound.
- What happy customer wants this? - That's going out to the veterans.
Is it?
- There you go, buddy. - Thank you.
We got two more.
What brings me here is the camaraderie.
Uh, it's just like being in the army again.
I-- I came here because I was-- I was on a real downer.
And Andy rung me and said, "Look, come along and we'll sort you out."
"We'll put you back on an-- on an even keel."
And they've done it. They've done that.
I've got the smile back.
I can't really win, to be honest. I'd love to...
And it's just-- It's that sense of belonging to something.
Yeah, I've just-- I've always been on the move all the time.
So I've never actually stayed in a place
for, like, more than six months or 12 months.
- What club did you come from? - From Man City.
- I was there for seven years. - Seven years?
Yeah. I was always on the move.
I went to Celtic, I went to Middlesbrough, I went to Derby.
So when I came here, I put my--
Well, my career in the fact that I'd do something well at Sunderland.
Kind of just gave back what I can to them as a club really.
Yeah.
The big man...
People appreciate what we're doing here
and that we can understand and we can empathize with them,
what they've gone through, and the experiences they had.
You know, when someone does come in and they are on the bottom,
it's up to us, then, to rally around you and lift you up
and make you feel part of the family.
- Wanna be in it as well, love? - I'm sure that was it.
Go on, then.
It's a humbling experience, coming to places like this.
They come in all week speaking about the game.
Come in on a Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and they're still speaking about the game.
Thank you. I try my best.
Just good to see how much it actually means to everybody
and brings everybody together.
Versatile.
It's a nice connection to have between us and them.
Two, one.
All right, chaps, in we come.
Four, five... That's it. Better.
Six.
It was around Christmas time last year, um, Lee Johnson rang me up.
Wanted to sign me. Wanted to bring me on board.
Good.
I was on loan in France,
not really playing, not really kicking a ball.
Two, one... Yep.
Just wanted to go back and play football.
You miss that, kind of, being on loan a lot.
You don't really get to feel for a club,
or, you know, that you're valued or you're wanted.
I started really quite young.
Center-back going off, Patrick Roberts on.
Baby-faced, 17 years of age.
Fulham signed me, and then kind of a quick-fire two years.
I kind of shot up, really, you know, improved a lot.
This is a player apparently, Patrick Roberts,
who's being watched by Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Man United.
So he can play.
You know, it felt-- felt good, but it was just the beginning.
I was happy obviously to go to Man City, which, as an 18-year-old, you would be.
We're seeing Patrick Roberts,
18-year-old who cost £12 million from Fulham.
I think I stayed for six months, and then I get moved on to Celtic.
Roberts is buzzing about again!
- And he's scoring again!
Just phenomenal.
What a talent he is.
Patrick, congratulations. How does this feel to win the title?
Yeah, I'm very pleased. I'm very pleased to get this...
But then I get moved on, again.
The loan system, it is broken.
It's a system that benefits the clubs over the players.
In to Roberts. A chance here as he wriggles through...
You can be sent from club to club...
Patrick Roberts.
...country to country.
Roberts, Roberts, Roberts!
It becomes almost impossible
to build momentum and progress as a player.
While for some, it can act as a platform to show what they can do,
for many others, it's the very thing that stagnates their careers.
You move different places,
and you get different opinions on you.
It can be quite tough.
A team like Sunderland, obviously,
wanna be on the up, wanna get back to where they belong,
and you know, I just wanted to be kind of a part of that.
Football has so many intangible things
which are outside of your control.
The reality is, I think, guaranteeing success,
it's difficult in this division.
But I've been fortunate enough that I have a very supportive family.
My twin brother shares some of his experiences
in his current projects.
I do as well, which is a very valuable thing to do.
My parents tried to raise us in a way where we didn't really feel
what the Louis-Dreyfus name might-- might bring with it.
I think we had a pretty conventional family.
Both parents lived at home and gave a lot of time and effort to raise us.
A lot of that changed when my dad really became ill,
which was around 2007.
At that point my mother was 24/7 with him,
trying to go from doctor to doctor and trying to cure him.
We had to become more independent.
My dad passed away, um, now, 12 years ago.
My most fond memories with him were always at football games.
Most of my memories is of us losing a final together
and being-- being upset about it together, to be honest.
But at the same time, um, yeah, there was a lot of good moments as well.
Something that always inspired me is the love he had for the football club.
This is what has guided me to Sunderland.
My parents always said, "The worst you can do is to do a job
without a real sense of purpose behind it and conviction."
I put pressure on myself because I really want to do well.
Well, time for sport now. There's a nervous night ahead for Sunderland fans.
And Jeff Brown is at the Stadium of Light
for the first leg of the Black Cats' League One playoff semifinal
against Sheffield Wednesday, Jeff.
Thanks, Dawn. As you say, there's a nail-biting 90 minutes ahead
for fans of both teams.
There'll be a crowd in excess of 40,000 here tonight.
The vast majority, of course, cheering on the Black Cats.
so these two sides will move on to Sheffield on Monday,
and then, two weeks tomorrow, it's that big match at Wembley.
Come on!
It was touch-and-go whether we'd get in the playoffs.
If you don't do well in your first leg,
then second leg you're up against it again.
But the majority of the people in the city, they're all nervous because,
can we do it? Is it third time lucky or not?
Don't worry what's happening in the league now.
This is-- This is where it starts. This is the playoff games.
This is who can hold their nerve on the day.
Yeah, it's gonna be one hell of an occasion.
I couldn't call who's gonna win that.
Football's a very much mental game in terms of how you approach it.
I've spoken a lot about how much they deserve to be there,
the hard work they've put in to that point.
What's the point of being fearful of what the outcome might look like?
Because I think fear-- Fear can cripple you as a player at times.
All these Sunderland fans inside the ground
have been scarred by the playoffs, young and old.
How do you write a different history?
The fact is it's not the same players.
It's a different time, it's a different team.
Like, all they spoke about was, "We haven't won since 1973,"
and "blah, blah." You know what I mean? And it was continuous.
This time's different.
Come on, lads.
- We're going on. - Come on.
This is the EFL's greatest show, and it is box office.
- This is incredible. - It's huge.
You've got two giants of the English game, trapped in League One.
Well, this stadium rises up,
and this city has come out in full force
just when their club needs them most.
Can the players do this record-breaking day justice?
Sheffield Wednesday, I-- I-- I think they're a really good team
that you have to watch out for.
You think Bannan will be all right?
Bannan has to be all right, 'cause he's key for Sheffield Wednesday.
I would say the same about Ross Stewart as well, up top.
Look at how slick he is in front of goal.
Some of the finishes recently have been sensational.
Two games, four days,
but only one team will walk down Wembley Way.
The build-up to the game, the gaffer said,
"Listen, Luke, we're gonna have a man-to-man job with Barry Bannan."
So I was like, "Listen, how man-to-man do you want me?"
"If he goes to the toilet, am I going to the toilet?"
And he goes, "Listen, wherever he goes, you go."
Ha'way Sunderland! Come on, man!
Palmer hooks it up the line.
Two minutes in, the ball's got to him on the right-hand side.
And I thought, "Right, bang."
Come on! Come on!
That's brilliant!
Come on!
I stood up, and the first thing he said to me was,
"You have to do more than that to stop me."
I thought, "That's game on from there."
♪ And it's Sunderland Sunderland FC ♪
♪ We're by far the greatest team The world has ever seen ♪
Down the right-hand side again.
He's got Berahino in the middle. Into the penalty area.
Patterson smothers the cross.
Good goalkeeping.
That's a warning.
Down to the edge of the penalty area.
And the shot comes in.
Oh, the bastard!
Patrick Roberts.
If anyone doubts what he can do.
Pat! Pat!
Windass is in the box, and Palmer's got forward again!
And Patterson lost it.
Looking to take on the ball back again. Roberts down the outside.
Beaten his man as well. Patrick Roberts still going into the penalty area.
Onto his left foot. Still Roberts. Still Roberts. So close!
Deflected over the bar.
Keep giving him the ball.
He is a threat, and I think Sheffield Wednesday are aware of that.
Well done, son.
Go on, Gooch.
Clarke, comes on to his right foot.
Pritchard. Gonna shoot with his right foot. Curls it! Hits the bar!
Fantastic. Pritchard was unlucky there.
It's looking-- It's coming to me, man. It's coming.
On the edge of the right edge of the penalty area.
And he crosses with his right foot.
Come on!
Can Sunderland break away? Stewart chasing after the clearance.
Stewart makes it!
Go on, son, run!
It's half saved!
Stewart again!
Puts it into the back of the net!
- Get in there! - Sunderland take the lead.
Ross Stewart chasing what seemed at first like a lost cause.
Didn't give up. He got there first.
That long, languid, deceptive stride of his.
He got to the ball, he got beyond the last man.
He was one-on-one with Bailey Peacock-Farrell.
He shot, and Farrell half saved it.
Come on! That's better!
Come on! Come on!
Well done, Ross Stewart.
I tell you what, he made that out of nothing didn't he?
I mean, it all happened so quick.
There was maybe half a second where you've gone, "Oh."
Like, "No." Like, you've missed.
The noise, I-- I can't describe what the noise was like.
To see all the limbs, the home end going mad.
That's what made me want to be a striker.
I just think there isn't a better feeling in football than scoring a goal.
But to score in a game of this magnitude,
you know, wow.
The match is over.
The referee, Mr. Donohue, puts his whistle to his lips and signals the end.
Wednesday exerted a bit of pressure,
but Sunderland held firm.
And they, Gary Bennett, will take a 1-0 lead into the second leg.
Maybe could have scored a couple more,
but it's only half of the job done.
Um, it's gonna be a massive game back at their place,
and I think we've just gotta stand up to it.
It's massive. It's gonna be big.
And the Sunderland supporters once again in full voice.
For where we are, what we've been through, the crowd's amazing.
And there is that connection now come back for the first time.
It's hope, and it is something positive.
It's a shared-- It's a shared feeling.
We are Sunderland, simple as that. You know what I mean? Remember that.
We're back with another Undr The Cosh podcast.
Jon.
- Mr. Parkin. - Chris.
- Chris Brown. How we doing? All right? - All right, Chris?
Special, special episode this week.
- Sunderland legend. - Sunderland legend.
- Alan "Bomber" Brown. - Pleased to be here.
Father like son.
Same nose.
So here we are, the playoffs.
Excitement levels are off the scale, aren't they?
I like the playoffs, yeah.
It's the way to do it, isn't it? A blaze of glory.
- If you win, by the way. If you win. - Yeah.
Your Wrexham goal, it's one of the best I've ever seen.
It was one d-- It was red hot in there, 100 degrees.
Honest, I was breathing out of me arse. I was having a nightmare.
Me touch was terrible.
I was thinking, "God."
We went 1-0 down.
I thought, "Well, that's it."
And then, all of a sudden, he knocks a header down. I'm in.
...header down. No! He's done it!
I knocked it in! I thought, "Bloody hell." I just ran.
Honest, just ran and ran. Somebody grabbed us.
Yeah.
- You thought you were up? - I got carried off the pitch.
The fans jumped over the fence.
It's carnival time at the racecourse ground.
I go in, and all the lads were like this.
Stoke had scored in the injury time,
and it took our promotion away.
And that was it. From hero to zero.
Did you watch-- Did you watch it?
Yeah.
- It should have been three, four. - Yeah. It's a tough one.
Good result. It could have been a lot better.
It's gonna be a big crowd there at Sheffield, and good supporters.
- Could be a nasty night. - We're going, aren't we?
Right we are.
The day we got relegated from the Championship, I went to Burton,
and I said I'd never, never go and watch Sunderland again.
It was just toxic.
- Fuck off, bitch! - Fuck off!
And I walked away thinking that's-- that's me done.
- Wash your hands? - Yeah.
Why are you going back?
- Can you feel the-- feel it back? - Yeah. I just...
- It was like how you remembered it? - Yeah.
I feel like a supporter again.
But we're going to the second leg.
It's a tough game, mind.
Tough game.
You need to have an eye on the second game.
There's a momentum shift in those type of games.
Because there's so much at stake,
the players can tense up because they're scared to make a mistake.
They don't want to be the guy that lets everybody down.
The game, going to Hillsborough, it's extremely tough.
We got beat there 3-0 earlier in the season.
-[commentator] Johnson. It's gone in! - [commentator 2] Yes!
Hasn't quite got hold of it!
And it's over the line!
And it's gone in!
Wednesday have gone goal crazy against Sunderland.
We need to win,
or my Sunderland career is probably over.
Hillsborough's one of the great stadiums.
It's one of the-- Still one of the biggest stadiums in the country.
And when you hear Hillsborough bouncing, when you hear the noise, it's awesome.
Sunderland, who've been four years in the wilderness,
and Sheffield Wednesday, who are coming out of a couple of decades
of the wilderness.
You've got a collision of giants, if you like.
Boo!
If you were Darren Moore, what you'd be saying to your team is,
"We're at home. You've got 30,000 fans behind you."
"Create an atmosphere that will swing the pendulum back in your favor."
It's just do or die for them at the moment.
You know, because although we've got a sort of slender advantage,
for them at home, they know what they've got to do.
So, yeah, the majority of the stadium's gonna be against us.
What a turn out as well.
Unbelievable. Both sets. Both sets of fans.
Sheffield Wednesday, a team from the city
which gave modern football to the world,
against a team from a city where football means the world.
We're underway.
Will Sunderland make it to Wembley?
Sunderland with a one-goal edge.
How will this play out?
Well, that was late.
Johnson's cross into the box. Gregory.
Sunderland literally throwing bodies at the ball.
- Pritchard. Stolen right in front of-- - Ooh. Come on.
- Yellow card. - A yellow card for Bannan.
Getting feisty. It's getting feisty.
Just starting to get more and more involved here, Barry Bannan.
Defensive slip helps him to thread it through.
Bannan's very good, tactically.
The gaffer's given me strict instructions. Wherever he goes, I go.
I'm close to him, but I'm not close enough.
Bannan now, looks up.
Bannan's shot blocked by Pritchard. It comes back into the penalty area.
Windass trying to pick it out.
Felt he was fouled.
Nothing from the referee.
Wednesday!
Tell you what, Wednesday are getting on top here. Pressure's building.
Every break in the play, he's talking to me.
He keeps trying to talk to me. I think he's trying to get me to switch off
And then he gets on the ball.
Oh, what a pass that is. And Wednesday with a chance for Gregory!
And he's just going, "You're team's done here. You're done."
They scored.
And I was just hearing, "They've gone. They've gone."
Fuck me.
...Wednesday night, Lee...
Look at it. Look at the light. Eh?
The place just erupted. Like, I'd never seen anything like that.
The realization hitting that we weren't in the driving seat anymore.
The concern for me when that goal went in was,
what's our reaction gonna be?
Because that one moment can take everything apart.
- That is game on. - Game on.
It's down the right of the penalty area. Cross in.
Oh, it's fumbled out of the way, behind by Gregory.
It's, uh... It's very edgy.
And now, foul on Byers by Pritchard.
Storey-- Oh, great save by Patterson, diving to his left.
Alex Neil needs to make a substitution here.
One or two tired legs out there.
It's time in the game when it's starting to get tense.
Ten minutes of added time.
Ten minutes.
The biggest tactical decision
was actually doing nothing and not making a change.
Where we were gonna hurt Sheffield Wednesday
was getting down the sides with the center-backs,
Jack Clarke and with Patrick.
Clarke. Just wants to run at them here, Jack Clarke.
And he's gonna keep running at them.
Soon as I step onto a pitch,
I'm more confident than I would be off the pitch.
Clarke still going. Still going in the penalty area.
It's one of them moments where you're like, "We need to do something."
Roberts, left-footed!
Good save down to his right by Peacock-Farrell.
But what a run by Clarke.
Jack was really coming into the game. He was running across the pitch.
He was, running past about five, six, seven, men.
If he gets the ball again, he will cause some damage.
Bailey Wright.
Back out to Batth on this left-hand side.
And Batth lifting it up, looking for the run of Clarke.
- Go on. - Clarke down the left.
Stewart cutting into the center.
Clarke.
Taking on Storey.
Into the penalty--
Get in!
- Get in! - It's in!
Whoo! Woo-hoo!
Yes!
Roberts swept in,
and from three yards, drove it under the keeper.
And it's 2-1 to Sunderland on aggregate.
We're in the 11th minute of added time.
- Sunderland lead 2-1. - Blow your whistle, man.
The Sheffield Wednesday fans at the moment, silenced.
Lads!
There it is, a lucky 13th minute for Sunderland,
who are through to Wembley on May 21st,
through Patrick Roberts' equalizer in the 94th minute.
It is Sunderland who've seen it out. What a night.
Come on!
- Yeah! - Come on!
Football's swings and roundabouts.
You can never cheat the football gods.
They always come back to bite you in the arse.
We worked hard that game. We had the last laugh.
That's something I was, you know, most looking forward to,
was being at a club where I'm-- where I'm valued.
Yeah, I'm just grateful to kind of be at this club
and fight for what, obviously, they've been wanting for years.
♪ Que será, será ♪
♪ Whatever will be, will be ♪
♪ We're going to Wembley ♪
What Patrick needed, in my opinion, was a home.
He needed somewhere they were gonna believe in him.
I think Patrick got all of that when he came to Sunderland.
I'm so pleased for Patrick and Jack,
obviously, being key contributors to their success.
You work so hard, and you try to be calm,
and you try to be composed in those key moments,
but-- You see when the goal went in?
Yeah, that-- that moment will stay with me forever.
I was sitting there, you know, thinking of all my family members.
Many of them were there,
and the ones that weren't were with me in spirit.
It was a feeling of joy,
but at the same time, the job is not done yet.
Focus, recover,
and there's one more game that stands in our way.