On This Day (4th May 2024): Want A Reminder To See How Far We’ve Come In Just Two Years?!

SUNDERLAND, ENGLAND - MAY 4: Sheffield Wednesday players celebrate at the final whistle during the Sky Bet Championship match between Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday at Stadium of Light on May 4, 2024 in Sunderland, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ian Horrocks/Sunderland AFC via Getty Images) | Sunderland AFC via Getty Images We’ve done these ‘On This Day’ for around five or six years now, and there are just days where there is an obvious pick to write about, but all of us who contribute to these pieces try to pick out the more obscure game/event from the day, rather than the obvious one if we can. For anyone who bought (and read!

) SAFC365 a couple of years ago, firstly thank you, but secondly, you might have got around to some of the older or less well-known stories in there. For instance, I’ve just opened it randomly and come across the story of Sunderland winning the Durham Challenge Cup in 1887. If we have the time to go through the archives, I think we all as a group prefer to write about those days than anything in recent history.

As you can see, I’m trying to justify looking back just two years in one of these features, and at first I dismissed doing it before thinking again. In the context of there being three games left this season, I feel it’s worth putting this current year into context of where we were just two years ago. It’s so crazy that this game I’m writing about was just two years ago, that I genuinely had to look at another source, as well as count on my fingers to make sure I was right, and this was actually just two years ago.

We all might have the odd gripe with the performance of the team or an individual from week to week, or not agree with a decision Le Bris has made, and that’s natural, but let’s go back two years and put it all into perspective. Because it’s easy to forget just what a rollercoaster our first season back in the Championship was following our Wembley win against Wycombe. Alex Neil took us up to 5th in the table after five games, before buggering off to take over at Stoke, who we’d just beaten.