Sunderland 'Til I Die Series 2 Review - 7 Ups & 5 Downs
1. What's The Story...
Like many long-suffering Sunderland fans, your writer initially burst with pride at the prospect of seeing the team profiled on Netflix, not least when Mackem-led group Fulwell73 were revealed as the team behind it.
Presumably a labour of love for the awesome crew that made outstanding documentaries such as The Class Of '92 and the poignant-yet-p*ss-funny Bros: After The Screaming Stops, the failure to be gifted a narrative by results on the pitch resulted in creations of ones that frustratingly failed to land.
Debate raged between fans after its airings over the rights and wrongs over the ills at the club, but accountability was excused (as it so often is) at all the wrong times across both seasons.
Madcap moments from Bain in Series 1 (swimming in his private pool) and Methven this time around (drowning in his own dance music bullsh*t) were good for knowing giggles but failed to address the toxic wealth ruining a club backed by thousands of fans without it. Methven in particular wore the endless number of masks we've all come to expect from tycoons telling us what to do over the past decade or so. Thankfully the cameras caught a couple of occasions when a few of them slipped...