Sunderland 'Til I Die Series 2 Review - 7 Ups & 5 Downs
5. Podblast
The teams on the WiseMenSay and Roker Rapport podcasts deserve huge credit for donating so much of their time to diligently documenting the thing they all want to love. It's a hard task more often than not, but the bravery of their balance is thrilling to observe through the Sunderland 'Til I Die lens.
Back in front of microphones under different circumstances than the sunshine and farts of September, Stewart Donald and Charlie Methven are rattled into submission when asked about Will Grigg's (more on him momentarily) inability to play in the existing team. Flustered by the very reasonable questions about how and why he's at the club if neither manager nor player can yet make the transition work, Donald is barely bailed out by Methven who tries and fails to undermine the value of the question rather than answering it himself.
It captures a tell from a reasonable poker player with a bad hand, and serves as the umpteenth reminder in this show that nearly all massive wealth is either inherited or acquired through total luck. Anybody associated with the club could have answered the question easily with the one thing neither man was armed with - the truth.